Kenya begins to see some peace

…from our contact in Kenya…

“Dear Praying friend,

God is answering prayer! Thank you all for responding to our political crisis whose ramifications have traversed every Kenyans life. Peace is returning and the City regaining her normal life. The slums are still scarred and may take a while as people still live in fear and suspicion of the tribal tag. Loss and damage of property was felt most and affected everyone in the slums as these were the centres of bloody feud. Half a million are now displaced. Thankfully God is saving Kenya from this self destruction.

Road blocks are temporarily vanishing at the appearance of military escorted convoys and immediately reappear behind the convoys. As a result people still can’t travel freely and hundreds still holed up in the villages for fear of being attacked and killed at those points. This is the very reason the caravan will depart Wednesday 0900hrs not just to deliver the much needed aid but also to make contact with the youths manning the road block. With our God, our vulnerability, our prayer and conversations we shall prayerfully urge them to stop this lawlessness. Yes it sounds senselessly risky, unthinkable and shocking to both police and government officials here and maybe to you too. Blockades have potential to turn into extortion traps, militia controlled territories as is the case of Burundi where I fell victim and may scar Kenya for the rest of our lives spearing no one in the years to come. It may mean the end of safe travel on the Great North Road and spell death to our initiatives of training pastors and advancing peace work in West and Northern Kenya along the Uganda boarder.

Please pray for our safety and for God to use us to touch lives along the way.”

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