Kenya

After a fifteen hour bus ride, we arrived in Nairobi Kenya to be transported to the YWAM base in Athi River (three hours away). At the base they had already planned an entire month of ministry for us: working in schools and churches. Each day was accounted for. We all prayed together and felt like the schedule was not giving God enough room to move. We all felt like we were supposed to work in Nairobi, and were waiting on the go from God.
We spent two weeks at the base working with the ministries they had planned for us, and working alongside the DTS on the base. We worked alongside an all girls secondary school: running a service for them and playing soccer. We taught at a couple primary schools. We also ran services in a couple of the local churches. During this time, we decided to go into Nairobi a few times to see where we would stay there, and what exactly we could be doing.
The other leader on the team's first language is sign language and she heard rumor of a deaf school close to the base and so we ventured out to find it. We found it, and fell in love with the kids there. Then on our way to visiting this school, we found another school called Machakos School for the Physically Handicapped. We went to visit the place and fell in love with the kids there as well. Needless to say, we went back to these two schools a few times.
Once we had all our details in place we moved locations to Nairobi. We found a place to stay just outside the city and right beside the largest slum of the city, Kibera. We went into the slum quite a few times and met so many people. We made a few trips into the city where a couple of the girls preached on the streets while the rest of us worshipped. We made a few trips into Machakos while in Nairobi to visit our friends at the two schools.
During the last week I started bringing a soccer ball to the field by the slums. I ended up meeting a school that were having a physical education class there. They asked me to coach soccer that day, and invited me to come the next. On the second day, they asked me to come teach a religious education class to the entire school. So I taught on faith. I fell in love with those kids.