Thursday, December 30, 2010


Lately we have been helping some Masai communities with greenhouse gardens. Greenhouses have become big business in Kenya. Among the Masai, its a really new idea. The Masai, traditionally, are a semi-nomadic people group. They have always lived in the vast grasslands of East Africa, moving with their herds as they follow the rains and looking for grazing land. Today the Masai have settled down a bit more as open grazing lands have been bought up by settlers. Several of our Masai pastors have decided to try farming. They want to use the income from the sale of the vegetables to plant more churches among their people. Its been fun to be a part of this effort. It means alot of travel on really bad roads, many nights out under the stars in the African Bush, but the end result makes it all worth it. Its our desire to focus our efforts on sustainable projects that build capacity among the churches that we are working with.