I want to bring you guys into this world and life Jesus has given to us in Kenya in a different way than I have before and I think I can leave it up to the words of John Calvin to start us off:
It Is The Task Of The Church To Make The Invisible Kingdom Visible….
It has been almost eighteen months since I first left home to follow God into this wild adventure and I have tried and apologized several times for trying and failing to post pictures…unfortunately I am adding another letdown to my list as I simply cannot get them to work out here.
SO……….
I would love for you all to head to our Team Blog page for an overall Easter/picture update as we have not had the same internet access in the last few weeks as the previous months.
PICTURES AND NEWEST UPDATE PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!
http://kenya.adventures.org/
We are coming to the end of our time here and are begining to say goodbye to friends and look ahead into our final debrief. It has been wonderfull in Kenya and I know God is not done yet because He is never done!
This past Easter weekend has been an amazing.
We spent it in the internally displaced people’s (IDP’S) camp, where victims of the 2007 election violence have been relocated. Many have lost thier entire familes to machetes and fires. Those who once lived in big houses, watched thier flat screen t.v.’s and dreamed of University now live in small tents, survive on charity and hope the rain comes to the fields so they can eat but not to thier blankets so they can’t sleep.
This year’s Easter was WITH JESUS. It was with Them. It was a call to the Cross, where Jesus actually bled and died so that we all, who have hated God in our rebellion could be cleansed of our sin and depravity and celebrate how He has Risen from that hold of death to the highest throne which is above every person, every nation, every religion and He will return to bring Justice and Renewal to Everything.
I was led by grace this Easter to pass on simple tradition and really consider the pain of God, yes God dying viciously on a cross (FOR US! Can We Comprehend this??) that not even Mel Gibson in all His efforts could achieve for us,
and the “glorious and inexpressible joy” (1st Peter 1:8) of the Apostles upon meeting the Risen king Jesus.
But also of infinite importance on an occasion where Christian and non Christian alike remember at least in some capacity the Death and Resurrection of the Nazerene Jesus is the words of Jesus Himself as he ascended to the heavens after rising from death:
Luke 24:46
And He said to them “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem.”
and else where….
Acts 1:11
They (Angels) also said “Men of Galilee why do you stand looking into the sky?
This Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the just the same way as you have watched him go into Heaven.”
Reminds me of a song I recently heard by Misty Edwards:
“JESUS IS COMING”
He’s not a baby in a manger anymore,
He’s not a broken man on a cross,
He didnt stay, in the grave,
and He’s not staying in Heaven forever.
Once again I AM gonna shake everything that can be shaken
Once again I AM gonna break everything that can be broken….
Are You Ready, are You ready for this,
Better Get Ready, Jesus Is Coming.
Easter Sunday is the Beginning not the culmination of the Truth, and for many of the peoples of the world such as these IDP’s, removed from the comforts and complacency’s that wealth and “modernism” can and does bring , Easter Sunday IS NOT THE END. It is the beginning and the expectation of the Kingdom that is to come…..
