Conference

Over Thanksgiving Weekend, we drove an hour away to Kijabe where RVA is located. We spent from Thursday afternoon to Tuesday morning at our annual AIM Kenya Spiritual Life Conference. It was Great!

We stayed in a dorm and had 3 dorm rooms and a bathroom to ourselves. The dorm parents where wonderful. All the boarding school kids are on Christmas break so the dorm was empty except the family that lives there. An answer to prayer to have Seth in his own room at night.

We ate in the cafeteria 3 times a day. Very good food, no cooking for me or dishes.

We had a speaker from the UK who was very good. The theme for the week was ‘Guarding the Truth’. Very pertinent. I came away refreshed and ready to persevere some more. I managed to make it to every session and Ryan only missed once.

The kids did VBS with a Narnia theme. Caleb loved it! Levi had a class for his age group. Towards the end, he was hesitant to go but his teacher said he was in the 99^th percentile of everything. I was very proud. Seth didn’t like his nursery but managed. There was consistently 2 Kikuyu mama’s for every session (morning and evening). And even if he wasn’t crazy about it, they got to know him. He took naps in a separate room full of pack and plays. Took his bottle for them. They got to know when he was tired when he puts his hands behind his head. And they held him most of the time. Occasionally they would join Levi’s classroom and he plaid with duplos. I was thrilled that he was over his stranger anxiety enough to stay in nursery.

I went to conference with low expectations (having preschoolers does that to moms) and was pleasantly surprised and blessed. The kids did great, no one got sick. We were exhausted but had lots of family time every afternoon. Ryan and I got to hear God’s Word.