Mayfield guest house!

When you think of Africa do you think of dry, desolate land? In my 2 trips to Kenya, I have seen a lot of beauty. A lot of green!! It's beautiful. The weather has been in the 70's. So nice!

I’ve been staying at a beautiful guest house that’s for missionaries run by Africa Inland Mission. It’s a place missionaries can stay while traveling or if they need a rest etc.

For me it’s been a huge blessing not only for a place to sleep comfortably , for a very reasonable price, including good food (they feed you nice meals three times a day) but also just the fellowship of visiting with other missionaries. One lady I've visited with quite a bit is on some island somewhere and she’s been there for 22 years teaching English and teaching school or whatever is needed.

I met a man today who was a pastor in Wisconsin for 40 years and when he retired he went to the place in Africa that their church had sponsored for so many years. Now he's been ministering in these remote villages for several years. I begin talking to him about the need to teach basic classes to the birth workers in this remote areas, where they have no clinics and no training at all. He said he knows of a woman that died just last week giving birth and it’s such a common occurrence. They have no medical help in the remote areas at all and no one to train people helping with birth. We began talking about the possibility of going in to teach these women that are doing the deliveries. He quickly came up with ideas, said that they are already having a conference in the fall and wondering if there wasn’t a way to get birth workers to the conference also, that I would be able to teach. Then he asked me if I was actually a missionary. I said "not technically, should I be?" He said no, it’s better if you’re not because if you’re a missionary you can’t going to Ethiopia, but with out being a technical missionary we could cross the border in Ethiopia and teach there to also.

I got so excited because all of a sudden I saw a little picture of the plan that God had in bringing me here to this house. I wouldn't have been here if it wasn’t for my Kapsowar trip being canceled. Instead I ended up spending a few days here in this beautiful mission house and meeting someone that could open up all sorts of doors! You never know what might come of that specific meeting, but it was God reminding me that He has a plan and purpose for all these little things that happen in our lives. We so often are confused and don't understand why or what's going on, but He does and trusting in Him is where the rubber meets the road.