update

Hello again,
It's been a while again since I wrote. During Summer I had to rush to Germany for just a few days to be with my parents who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. It was a good time to be with them, encourage them and bless them and also be blessed together with all my familymembers. I thank God for the provision for this short trip. I found my parents and all family members in good health which is a great blessing. I didn't travel around much, I just spent time with them and enjoyed a bit of Summer there.
Soon after I came back to Kenya I took my family to a trip to the northeastern part of this country, in particular to the huge refugee camp which has been established in the semiarid land close to the border to Somalia. That camp is home for about 300.000 mainly Somali refugees who ran away from the ever raging war in Somalia. We visited some of our friends who have come to the Hospital for treatment and we had a great time together. In those places it always causes some commotion when a white person shows up who speaks Somali, and this time even with two white teenagers, that caused even more sensation. But it was still a lot of fun, to top it all we went out for lunch in the biggest restaurant in the camp and had the best Spaghetti south of Italy.
Somalia, by the way is experiencing the worst of times right now, while a splinter group of Al quaida is terrorizing the nation, with random amputations of hand and feet, and not very seldom do they chop of heads of those they think are not the kind of Muslim they appreciate. Many, many people get extremely frustrated with the ongoing fighting and inability of the leaders to sit down together and agree to make peace.
See you at the next post, Thomas