The Big Rally

Greetings from Kenya!! Today was our first official day working with the Source of Light team and just so happened to be one of the most important days of the trip! Today was the Source of Light rally at Nairobi Baptist Church…total attendance=3500 students. Pretty impressive!
So we were all kind of nervous and hoping everything works out, and praise the Lord it did!! We arrived at the Source of Light office at 9am and walked over to the church around 9:45am. The rally began at 10:00 and lasted until 5pm! Approximately 15 schools were represented and each gave a performance (ie: singing, dancing). It was definitely a cultural experience.
Students in Kenya are not afraid of singing and performing in public. This is very different from students in the U.S. The passion that Kenyan’s have for worship is exhilarating. We are all so very encouraged and uplifted from the worship and speakers we witnessed today.
Also, my Kenyan friend (Bilha) travelled 6 hours to come see me at the rally today! We met in Mombasa last year and have kept in touch via phone/facebook. She is a very dear friend of mine; I was so excited to see her for the second time and spend most of the day with her. Prayers were definitely answered today.
At our share time tonight, we talked about how encouraging it is to spend time with our Kenyan friends. Ben Mwangi, who we met through Sarah Gravitt and also last year in Kenya, spent the day with us as well. He is amazing  Ben grew up in the third largest slum of Kenya and by the grace of God got plugged in with Compassion. This ministry changed his life and helped him out of poverty. Since then he has graduated from university and went back to his childhood slum to teach physics and Arabic (one of the 17 languages he is fluent in..crazy!) His story is such an inspiration and is part of the reason I sponsored a child through Compassion.
Our team is doing great! Lainie is scheduled to arrive tomorrow and we are all just so pumped up! Please continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will fill us and give us the words to speak. I can’t believe we’re missing the snow back home…and Oz burned down!!
Asante Sana!! (thank you!!)
Hillary