Twentieth anniversary and the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury

It’s not long now until Rowan Williams comes to help us celebrate 20 years of Springfield Church. Springfield has gone from strength to strength and I have to admit that I love being the  Minister here.

Reflections on out trip to RUSH, Kakamega

On the plane back to the UK on Monday we all wrote a short reflection on our time working with RUSH in Kakamega. It was an overwhelming experience and difficult to put into a few words.

Our last day in Kenya

Sunday was supposed to be an early start for us to drive about an hour away to the church lucy and Andrew pastor in Andrew’s home town of Butare. Unfortunately, Lucy’s malaria had not completely been dealt with and she needed to go back to Dr Bomji’s.

Video of our building a mud house in Kakamega, Kenya

Well, I posted about our building a mud house for a widow called Josephine yesterday with some pictures. But we also took loads of video. We have put this together to make a short film of our making the house.

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Building a house – Kenyan style

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Well it has been very much a Kenyan week this week and I find myself all too easily slipping into Kenyan ways. One of the endearing things that you will hear is a chorus of “sorry, sorry” if you slip or bang your head or get something wrong. Well yesterday I heard myself saying “sorry, [...]

Videos from Friday

There is always so much to see at RUSH and it is tempting to try and show everything! But I suspect, dear reader, it might get too much. So we have tried to show short clips of up to a minute.

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Guest Blog – Angie’s week

The week has been so moving but also so humbling at times. The women’s meeting was very moving especially when they all began speaking in tongues during prayer. The women were shaking my hand and telling me their name and asking for Springfield to lift them in prayer when we return.

Videos from Thursday

One of the great things about this week is that we are able to upload our videos onto the net. We have taken out an unlimited one week tariff so that we can really hammer the 3g modem that we are using!

Guest Blog post: Rose’s view from Kenya

JAMBO  to all Springfielders and blog watchers.  Our days here are packed with interest and new experiences.  The sun has been very hot – we are here in the famine season and for the last few days everyone has been watching and hoping for rain.

Wednesday in Kakamega

Tuesday was the “low day” for quite a few of the party. There is quite a large adjustment that we need to make to what we see and experience in Kenya (especially far from the tourist places). The poverty and living conditions can be quite overwhelming and we don’t have the experiences to show us how to cope. But a number of group hugs and a good night’s sleep for most meant that we woke with a purpose on Wednesday morning (and no small amount of noise by some!)