of the week in Malindi to kind of give you guys an idea of what we did. Then we're going to go around and have a roundtable so that everybody can give you their thoughts on what most touched them on the trip there and what they brought away from it. So first of all, I wanted to give you an idea of where Kenya was on Africa and where we were at. When we first landed, we landed in Nairobi. And then we were there for a couple days and went to Malindi on the coast. So that gives you an idea of where Nairobi and Malindi are. The population of Kenya is just under 47 million people. In Nairobi, it's about 4 million people, and that's the capital. Malindi is only about 300,000 people. So it's a pretty good-sized city, but compared to the United States, it doesn't look like a big city. The land size of Kenya itself is about the same as the size of Texas, so it's not a real big country. To give you an idea of the topography, Little Rock is 335 feet above sea level. Malindi is 22 feet above sea level. Nairobi is 5,900 feet above sea level, so it's actually higher than Denver. The temperature differences between them, in Malindi, the highs were in the mid-90s, low to mid-90s. The temperature at night was in the low 80s. Humidity averaged between 80 and 90 percent. A few days was in mid-90 percent humidity. Nairobi, though, was in the mid-70s during the day. Night was in the low 60s. Humidity there averages 60 to 70%. There was a couple days that it was in the 80s, but for the most part, 60 to 70%. In the early 20th century, there was a big population boom in Kenya, and now the average age is 19. So the zero to 24 population is 60% of the population in Kenya. So the younger generation is one of the things that We noticed when we were there, that's what the Wanjis try to reach more than anything, and that's what the churches are reaching. The 25 to 54 age group is only about 34%, and 55 and above is 6%. So over 55, you don't have a lot of that. The industries in Kenya itself is coffee or agriculture, and coffee's the biggest agricultural product, and tourism. But the funny thing is, Kenyans don't drink coffee. So coffee is an export crop. We went there thinking, hey, we're going to have some of the best coffee in the world. We drank instant coffee every day. So they don't offer coffee. The tourism, though, since 2013, 2014, there's been a lot of violence in the surrounding Somalia and that area. Tanzania, but also from extremists within Kenya, there's been some bombings and that type of stuff, so tourism is down dramatically, which has caused, back in 2013, the unemployment was about 40%. Now, in Malindi itself, where we spent most of our time, it's between 80 and 90% unemployment rate. So tourism, I mean, there's hotels that they've just closed up and boarded up, and they're not even in operation now. Then the religion. breakdown for the most part is 45% claims to be Christian Protestant. But of that 45%, the majority is Anglican, Seventh-day Adventist, African Inland Church, and Presbyterian. I found one website that had Baptist and Reform Methodist, but most of them didn't have any reference to any other religious group that we would consider. The African Inland Church was actually founded in 1873, I believe it was, from a Pennsylvania Bible Institute. It's a non-denominational, we think it might be based sort of like the Quakers, that type of thing, so I'm not real sure. Not a lot of information to be able to find on them. After that, Roman Catholic is 33%. Islam is 10%, and then the indigenous religions is 10%, and then all others, Hindu and atheists, is 2%. I did notice that when we were in Malindi, there was a lot of mosque, and you could, just about anywhere in the city, you could hear the call to worship on a regular basis. So, okay, now, so that's kind of the whole overview of Kenya itself. See if I know how to work this thing. Oh, probably not. Now maybe it'll work. Nope, that's not it. Which one do I push? Oh, there it went. Okay, so our first day in Malindi, the first full day, it was a Saturday. The ladies had women's training. They had 60-something women there that they were training, talking about biblical womanhood. We also had men's training where Buster and Steve taught the leaders and pastors of a group of churches there. There's basically one main church, you might say, and then a whole bunch of other ones. Most people there don't have vehicles, so they walk everywhere they go. So if it's not within a couple miles, they don't go, or very seldom do they go. So the churches have to be small churches in the villages around the city. Sunday morning, we had pastor, We had Pastor Buster. He was pastor over there. So Buster and Steve preached at two different churches that morning. We also had the younger generation teaching Sunday school. Paschal and the two girls all taught Sunday school lessons. Sunday night we had a youth rally. There was about 150, 175 people at the youth rally. Several different churches came from around the area. They sang, there was some preaching, and some testimony given. The gentleman that was sitting next to me, and I did not get a picture of him, I wished I had, but he was one of the first converts of Morris Wanji over there, and the gentleman was in his 80s for sure, but he was out there dancing with the kids just as much as anybody else. It was amazing. Monday was VBS. The girls taught VBS. You can see the group there. When it started off that morning, we had about 40-50 kids. By 11 o'clock, the chores were done and the kids showed up. We had between 220 and 230 kids there. It was amazing how well-mannered the kids were. Some of the leaders were walking around with sticks, so that might have something to do with it, but they were still well-mannered. We would have had to have 30 or 40 adults to keep that many kids crowded in the United States, so they were wonderful. Sunday night was soccer night. We went and watched two teams play. You can see in the bottom picture some of the kids without shoes. That's the goalies. They're out there playing. The goalies didn't have shoes, and they're running around kicking the ball just as far as the guys with shoes. the building project on Tuesday. This is a before the picture on the left hand side of the bathroom they had and an after picture of what was finished. So to give you an idea of what we accomplished for them. Then here is the dedication cake and there's Buster showing what the inside of the bathroom looks like. It was amazing. I know I posted on Facebook a video, we'll make sure, but the celebration that they had with the dancing and the singing was just amazing how grateful they were for this bathroom that we built for them. But the bad thing is they still don't have electricity and water at this location, so they have to carry water every Sunday and Wednesday when they meet they have to carry water in. There we go. So Tuesday night and Wednesday night we had preaching and teaching in the evening times. I taught one night, Steve taught another night. Wednesday night was the last night of teaching. We actually exchanged gifts that evening. That's where everybody got their skirts from. We gave out the socks and everything. There's the soccer team that we gave all the socks to in their socks. And I will say this, the blessing was that they were afraid to ask us for shoes, because they didn't know how, that was too much for them to ask for shoes. So they wanted socks, because the socks, when they play on the soccer fields, it's hot, the socks protect their feet from the heat of the dirt. But they wouldn't ask for shoes. Don't worry, they have shoes. They were taken care of, so. Then the last day we were in Malindi, we had the opportunity to actually visit the ocean and see some different things. Stick our feet in the water for just a few moments before we headed back to Nairobi. So that's the overview. Now, every evening when we got done, because we would go separate directions, we had a roundtable like this where we sat around after dinner and shared our thoughts of the day. And so that's what we thought we would do now is just go through, share our thoughts about the trip, kind of an overview, get a little more detail in there. Here's some of the construction from the construction day. You can see all the ladies helping. We started off that day with one hoe. Now their hoes are a little bit different than ours, but that's all we had. We used it as a shovel, we used it to dig with, everything. They were finding buckets and old bags that they were putting the dirt in and carrying it, and we spread that mound of dirt out and smoothed it out and made it really nice. There was actually a termite mound there that we had to move and smooth out, but the people that showed up and worked, it wasn't just a few men, it was everyone, kids, women, everybody, and they were enthusiastic for what they were doing there. We had the opportunity to minister some of the local children around the church that showed up on Saturday morning, Saturday when we were eating at lunch and we were able to feed them. My thought from the trip was I was so blessed to see how much the people of the different churches loved God and wanted to worship him. You know, we come to church and it's almost a drudgery some days. There, every time they met, every time they got together as a body of believers, They were singing. They were dancing. I mean, it was just amazing. They were happy. For somebody that we look at and say they don't have anything, they have it all. I walked away going, how can you not see this and not be touched in your heart? There's the girls. All right, I'll let them go now. Okay. All right. Well, we did Sunday schools separately and that made us both really nervous. VBS was a lot better because we were together. But the biggest thing that touched me was the kids, period. They were just amazing in so many different ways. The children, the little itty-bitty babies were so adorable and they always wanted to stay by their mom. And then the kids at VBS and Sunday School, they were so well-behaved. And they would clap and cheer when we said something that they liked. And it was so awesome. And they were so attentive and well-behaved and ready to learn. They wanted to learn. And it felt so awesome to be able to teach them. And I can't wait to go back. That's all. I cannot wait to go back, because I will be going back. For me, I can definitely second what Emily said. The children were a huge part for me. But also, I went there expecting I would be coming back home sad and broken hearted for the poverty there, and some of them don't have shoes, and maybe they don't get enough to eat. But instead, I walked away sad for a different reason. I was sad because I was leaving, because they are just so loving. I went there, and they treated me like they'd know me for years, like I was their family. So that was really amazing and their love for the Lord and for everybody Which is so amazing and I definitely want to go back to oh Yeah, that was really cool I They came to VBS, and we had like this break in VBS, and they had a bunch of different performers. There was traditional dancers, the girls did traditional dancing and stuff, and then they started clearing out chairs, and I asked this guy next to me, I'm like, what are they doing? And they're like, he says, they're gonna come out and jump. I'm like, dance? No, they're going to come out and jump. I was like, okay, sure. I was not expecting what I saw. It was incredible. It was like the gymnast that we see in the Olympics on TV, they do it on mats and stuff. These guys did it on concrete in dirt and it was incredible. They were so good with no shoes on, no padding. It was awesome and it was scary too because I was for sure that they were going to hurt themselves so many different times. It was terrifying. Well, it was a great trip, as you will be able to share more. But the thing that really impressed me the most was that these are folks who are not waiting for somebody to show up to help them to do something. These are folks who are on the ground fulfilling the Great Commission and with basically nothing. Many of the people can't read and write. Most of the congregation has no Bible. But I mean, these folks love the Lord. I mentioned some of the folks that were with us. I said, wow, we need to go over here to learn how to sing. We need to go over here to learn how to pray. There was a lady that prayed, I'm not kidding you. I had no idea what she said because she was speaking in Swahili, but she was serious. It wasn't like, well, I wonder if I have to get I wonder what my next word or what somebody's going to say. I mean, she knew exactly what she was going to say. And it was just incredible, the amount of love that they have for the Lord. And they're getting after it. I mean, if we don't do anything, they're going to press forward. However, it was pretty obvious to us that they needed additional training. And they want, they would readily receive training. They receive guidance. But if we don't do anything, hey, they're going to press on, with or without us. I think I'll second that. Yeah, that's me up there. Oh, no. Oh, that's a precious one, but I'll cry over that one. I'm not allowed to cry. I'm not allowed to cry. So going over there, I knew I had one afternoon of teaching, a subject that was difficult to teach, but that God had prepared me for. And the hearts of the ladies to receive it was incredible, because it was the word of God. And they were eager to hear what God had to say. The questions they asked were heartbreaking. And I knew some of the history behind some of the women there, but just to know that they are hurting like we hurt. They dream like we dream. They have visions and goals for their families and their husbands and their children, just like we do. And I think that's what really connected me with these ladies is that they're just like me. You know, they just have a little bit different skin color and they can dance way better than I can. But they're just women who want to serve the Lord and to honor Him with their lives. And they just want to know how. And many of them don't know how because they don't have the word to be in every day. The older women may not even be able to read the word. They have to have somebody read it to them. So they may not have somebody that can read the word because they don't have the Bible to do it. So I kind of second what Dad, not kind of, I do. You know, the eagerness is there, and they're going to press on, you know, with or without us. I went really not knowing everything that the Wanjis were involved with in Malindi, but I came away with some knowledge of what they do and the knowledge that God had already been working there. We weren't going to begin a work. The work had already been begun years and years and years ago. God had prepared Malindi and us for that week, specifically with the skills that he had given us and to be able to minister. And then we were in a hundred times more ways ministered too. And you can ask us about our matching dresses later. Yeah, next. One thing that Rebecca mentioned, and we're trying to be above everything we're saying so we don't cry because we cried our hearts out when we were there. But one of the questions, no, not one of the questions, many of the questions that the ladies asked were very, very difficult questions. The things that they go through are so different from what most of us as Christian Americans go through. I know there are some that do. But the questions were very difficult. And over and over, we had to go back to what God says. We know this is difficult. We know that in our hearts We want to say, get out of there, you know, get out of there and find a better life. But we had to keep going back to what God says. And one thing that impressed me so much is that when we finished speaking, Christine, who's the pastor's wife, got up and then in Swahili, she basically reiterated what we had said. And one thing, Chow said that one thing she kept saying was, God says, God says, God says, this is what you do because this is what God says. Their hearts are to hear what God says. And let's see, well that's just one of the ladies and her children and they were all so precious and you see they don't look like they have much but when they come to church they dress and probably most of the clothing that they have that's nice at all is clothing that they wear to church. They may come barefooted or in sandals that are way too big or way too small. My heart, I wrote down things to say but I'm not saying any of it, but my heart is broken in two pieces now. Part of it's still in Africa because you cannot do what we did without having your heart torn apart and leaving part of it there. And so part of it's there. I'm thankful to our church for allowing us this privilege. Thank you so much. What a blessing. And the last, one of the last pictures, I think I had four. Okay, the little girl that I'm having my picture made with is named Gloria. That's her Christian name. And I told the mom, I said, this gives me such joy. And she said, and me also. And then the lady that's sitting there is a lady named Julie. And I put it up there to ask you to pray for her. Julie is an unbeliever. She's British. And she was at the guest house where we were. I had the opportunity to talk to her and to share Christ with her. And she was open. She told me she has her own God. But she was very open and she told me she'd read the book of John. So I asked her if I could take her picture so we could pray for her and she said yes. So please pray for Julie's salvation. On the Sunday we were there, that morning they came to us and asked us, hey, we need somebody to teach a youth Sunday school on evangelism. So with about 30, 40 minutes of preparation, me and Miss Rebecca went out there and taught. We found out while we were there that the youth is 18 to 25. And so it was amazing just hearing how eager they were to learn and to hear how to spread the gospel. And because they rather enjoy the teaching, they asked me to speak at the youth rally they had later that night. And I was under the impression that I would be doing the same thing I did in the youth Sunday school. So that's what I had prepared. And as I'm walking up there, they tell me to give a testimony is what they're wanting me to give. So I have seconds to come up with what I'm saying. And it was while I was up there with no idea what was going to be said next. or what to say up in front of about 200 people, panicking, that I started talking about how we've got to use our life to spread God's Word, because if we don't, who else will? And it was while I was up there, saying just what came to mind first, that that coupled with an internal struggle that had been going on for days, was what the Lord finally used to bring me to Him. It was in that moment that I was finally saved. I finally truly found a meaning and a purpose for my life. And if it weren't for being out there, seeing how much these people love God, despite having so little, I don't know if this change would have ever really happened. These people, in their blessing of showing their example of just such pure love of God, have blessed me in a way that will last a lifetime. So this is a trip I would not give up for my life. Well, I think as you can tell from what everybody said, this was an amazing experience for every one of us. And I told somebody that, you know, if you go on a trip like this and you don't get fired up, you're working with wet wood. I mean, it's just, it was an amazing thing to me. I didn't know what to expect, really. And I know that Buster and I were on the docket to teach and to preach. And I don't think either one of us quite knew what to expect. One thing we learned was flexibility is the key because things change on a moment's notice. They'll just come to you and say, oh, by the way, you're on for tomorrow night or, you know, an hour from now. You just don't know. So we had to be prepared in season and out of season for what came up. It stretched us, at least it did me, and I think most of us would say that. Those of us that had to do any teaching, it definitely stretched us and made us realize that we need to be ready to give a reason for the hope that's within us. Throughout the trip it was, as already been said, it was just amazing to me the love that they had for us, the appreciation they had for us, and how grateful they were that we had come. But really the blessing was ours and as I reflected on that I thought, you know, missions really should be a partnership. And that's what I came away with is that this is a partnership that we have with the Wangees and with our other missionaries as well. But there are things that we can give to them, but there's a whole lot that they give to us as well. And we can learn from one another. The needs over there, I could just go on and on telling you over and over again all of the things that we came away saying, boy this needs to be, we need to do something about this and something needs to be done about that. Just an example, we went to the local seminary there where one of the guys that I talked to was attending the seminary and James told us that most of the people can't begin to afford it, but we visited the seminary and we went in the library. I have way more books myself and they had an entire seminary library and most of the stuff that we looked at, I'm not even sure where it came from. It wasn't anybody that I was familiar with as far as the authors of the books. And so they do so much with such limited resources. And over here we can, you know, we have so many resources and sometimes I feel like, and not our church in particular, but just a church in America, I feel like we have so many resources and we don't really get a lot done with it, but they get so much done with so little. And I can tell you firsthand that every nickel that we give to the Wanjis is money well spent. They don't waste money. They don't squander money. They use the resources that they are given in a very, very effective way to reach the people of Kenya. and we as a church are partners with them. They were so grateful for Cabot Bible Church and what we've done. I believe they said that we were only one of two churches that supported them. Now there's individuals that support them obviously, but as far as churches that have any role in their support, we're only one of two as I understood it. That was amazing to me. I just found that a little hard to believe, but that's what they told us. I think there are opportunities here going forward and I know the missions team is going to meet and talk about some of those. So just tremendous opportunities for us as a church to partner with the people of Kenya and other missionaries around the world. And so I came away with just a renewed interest and appreciation for what the church is doing around the world. When we landed there, we got there, it was like we had known those people all of our lives. And that was only because there's that common bond in Christ. It was only because they were our brothers and they were our sisters in the Lord. And so these people, they don't worship in the same way we do. They don't speak the same language we do. Some of them do. Some of them speak English, but even that's the Queen's English, more or less. but they are people who love the Lord and who are devoted and committed to doing what needs to be done to win their generation for Christ. I think what we intended to do here, and I think we have a little presentation to make at the end, but also I think we were going to open it up for questions, is that right? So I don't know if there's something you want to ask us. We'll pass the mic around. Sunday after Sunday afternoon, it turned out to be 30 to 40 men that I was going to teach. So I'm like, okay, I can still teach 30, 40 men. We can sit down, we can do it. Sunday night at the youth rally, they announced that we're having a preaching on Tuesday night, and everybody's invited. So he invites 200 people. So then it went to me standing up preaching, and as terrifying as it was, and being in a country without any kind of real resources, God worked it out that I was able to I had some information on my computer that I used before and I was able to turn it into a message. So I'm preparing for a message, going through a translator thinking I've got to fill up 45-50 minutes. When I walk up, stand up to walk up there, James walks up to me and goes, oh by the way, it's 5.30 right now, you need to be done before 6 o'clock. So now I'm going okay. I've got to cut this thing down from 50 minutes down to 15 minutes because I've got a translator. So that was a very interesting point. So the flexibility is part of it. And what Americans say over there, they hold very near to the truth as far as the Bible goes. So if you say something, they hold it up to high esteem. I mean, it's not at the Bible level, but it's very high esteem. I turned it off. I think I can pronounce this right. Mzungu is what they called us. And what was the second part of your question again? Well, yes. They really, I think, from what we could gather, they kind of look at us like we're the experts, and I'm telling you we aren't. In many ways, they're As I came away from that, they're the experts on some of this stuff. Now, there are things we can help them with. I mean, discipleship is absolutely critical, and Bible teaching, good, solid Bible teaching is absolutely critical. But I'll tell you what, they tried to teach me how to worship, and somebody put a video out there on Facebook. I tried to buy it back, but it was too late. And so they told me I didn't have any rhythm. Well, I kind of knew that. But when it comes to worship, they don't do it the way we do, but their heart is in it, and they love the Lord. Any other questions? Yeah, one of the main staples in Kenya is yugali and cabbage. Yugali is a paste that's almost like grits, but it's dry. So it looks like really, really dry mashed potatoes. Yeah, like Play-Doh and cabbage. And then rice, they cook a lot of rice, stir-fry type rice, because they don't have a lot of water. Water is a commodity over there, so they don't really boil their rice or steam their rice like we do. It's more of a stir-fry rice. Meat is a premium, and I will say they try to make sure that we ate meat on a regular basis, but they only eat meat very seldomly. You know a couple times a week, maybe they might have some meat and their chickens are about half the size of our chickens So when you eat chicken there, it's tiny yeah, no sirloins um They fed us very well. It was wonderful food, but There was a time that I honestly believe that there were some people that went without Or went with very very little to make sure that we were taken care of we had We had a meal on Wednesday, I think it was, it was fish. They caught that, or Sunday, it was actually Sunday afternoon. They caught the fish that morning, and basically, it's the whole fish. They throw it in a pot, boil it, and you eat everything. Because you don't waste anything, so. Yeah. I ate the eyeballs and the head, so. I'm adventurous like that, so. It was good. A lot of flavor. We actually had prawns, and some learned to take care of the, suck the heads, so. But the food itself is, and they eat with fingers. They feel sorry for us when we're there because we don't know how to eat with our hands. So they made sure we had spoons, but most of them when they ate, it was with their hands. So their water, okay, where do they get their water from? There is a few wells that are drilled, but they buy their water. In Nairobi, most of the houses, the government can't keep up with the amount of water that they use. The infrastructure's not there, so some days you have water from the government, other times you don't. So most of them have tanks that they buy water and bring it in. In Malindi, the Muslims actually supply water. So you can go get free water on Sunday mornings from the Muslims. So that's one of the challenges that the churches in Malindi have is that you can either go worship God or you can go get water to support your family. We actually saw one morning that it had rained because we were there kind of in the rainy season, and there was a big mud puddle in the road. And I saw a gentleman while we were sitting waiting for church one morning come up with a bucket and fill it up out of that mud puddle. And I'm sure it wasn't for drinking, but it was probably for bathing or something like that. So they get their water from wherever they can get it from, basically. And they go with very little. Yes, that's the other thing is there's no hot water in Malindi. In Malindi, we didn't take hot showers. They just don't have hot water. So if you want hot water, you boil it. And they don't have stoves like us, so they don't just go turn on a stove. They have to build fires. So any cooking they do, any boiling of water, they're picking up sticks and building fires, even in the township of Malindi. I'll ask a question while I wait for somebody else. What would it take to drill a well? Do you have any idea how deep the water is, getting equipment in, that type of thing? James said roughly $10,000 to drill a well, but I don't know. It would certainly depend on how far down they had to go to get water, I think. Well, again, as Robert mentioned, the Muslims, they have really nice mosques, and I don't know where the money's coming from, probably from the Middle East with some of the oil-rich countries, and so the Muslims are pouring a lot of money and resources into the area, and so they give out water, but if the church was able to have a well where they could give water on a Sunday morning or throughout the week or whatever, that would be an outreach tool that they could use as well as just meeting a physical need of the community. Just one follow-up on that. How is the fact that the mosques are offering free water on Sunday, how is that affecting the church growth and stuff like that? Really it hampers it a lot because they have to choose between, because a lot of times you see these ladies walking, and you know, you've seen pictures of ladies walking in Africa with something on their head, and you see that they're carrying five gallon buckets of water on their head walking two miles, and they're swinging their arms, it's no big deal. So on Sunday mornings, the whole family goes, and what happens is, a lot of times it's the kids, the younger generation that's there getting the water, and they start saying, hey, since you're here, be involved in this and they start recruiting the young men. To combat that, one of the things that the Wanjis do with the soccer team is they started a soccer league with the different churches. And they go recruit these young men to play soccer because that's the national game. And there was actually a young man on one of the soccer teams, he's actually in the acrobats, that the goalie was a Muslim and he'd been converted through the soccer. Because when they come to play soccer, whether it's practice or at a game, there's always some sort of preaching and teaching going on at halftime or before or after the game. So that's the combat that they're using right now is soccer, but water is, you know, it's the lifeblood of the community and the Muslims are using that to their advantage right now. Did you see any of the water filters or, and did you see any of the four bike pastures? I didn't see any of the water filters, but they did thank us for the motorcycles, and we actually got photos with us sitting on the back of them. Is that what you're asking? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They had them there, and they kind of had a little, I don't know if you'd call it a ceremony, but they wanted to thank us for those motorbikes. And they get them, they're built in India. I didn't recognize the brand until they told me that. Then I saw them everywhere. and they're much cheaper than a motorcycle here in the U.S. Steve, you want to share a little bit about the ministry of the motorcycles? Some may not be aware of that. Yeah, the motorcycles were donated and it's a couple pastors and then a couple leaders of the churches to get around between the churches and to minister to the different people. So prior to that, the pastors would have to take, in Kenya there is no public transportation in Kenya. So if you want to go someplace and you don't have a vehicle, you have to pay somebody to get you someplace. And the average income is about $6 a day in Malindi. So to go someplace, it costs a lot of money. And so it allowed the pastors to minister to the different areas and the different churches. Like I said, there's one major church that is fellowship where Steve preached at, that's the main one. But there's probably six or eight other smaller churches in the communities around there. We saw five of the different churches. And so it allows the pastors and leaders to go between them. The other thing is it allows them to, the pastors, if they're not taking care of their families, to go to the schools. In the school system, the Kenyan government guarantees freedom of religion, and they offer or allow the pastors and leaders to come into the schools and teach Bible classes in the schools anytime they want. So that ministry has allowed them to do that also, so having the motorcycles. Does that answer your question, Bert? Let me just share just a word. We're probably going to share a lot more on this, but there's an incredible Arkansas connection between what's going on in Malindi and other parts of Kenya and It's just in this church. The very first Southern Baptist missionary to East Africa is from MENA, graduated from Ouachita. His first convert was James Wanji's dad, Morris Wanji. He, now get this now, he has started on his own without any support from Southern Baptists at all. just because of love for the Lord and love for people. He started over 50 churches in Kenya. We have the opportunity to work with the churches in Malindi, initially, because that was the headquarters that Morris Wanji, the father, started. He was actually from Mombasa, but he moved to Malindi, which is just up the coast. There's other connections to Arkansas, The more I delve into this, I mean, the more I'm going, this is incredible. I mean, Arkansas and Melinda, I mean, who would have ever put the two together? But it's just amazing how the Lord has worked and then allowed us, through Carl and Debbie also, to be involved in this whole thing and to find out more and more about what God is doing. One thing I've got to share, this was a story that James told us that kind of follows on the heels of that story, He said that at some point, and I don't know when this was, but his father decided he needed more acreage or more land to farm on. So he started to cut down the forest and make fields. And the people of the village came to him and said, you can't do that. You'll die because our God lives in the forest. And James said, I'm not going to die. And he just went ahead and cleared the forest. And the people kept waiting for him to die. And he didn't die. And because of that, many people in the community came to faith. So that's just an example of how these people live out their faith, just in a practical way. And that sounds kind of far-fetched to us. But if you grew up thinking your god lived in the forest and somebody's cutting down his homestead, that would probably seem like a serious thing. And it was a great testimony to me how that Morris Wandu said no. I'm going to do it and I'm going to prove that your God does not live in the forest. They had a tree that was on just outside their property and it was called the Talking Bow-Bow Tree. And the people would put food under this tree for their gods. And Morris would send his children over to the tree to get the food, and they said, well, we can't go get their food. They'll kill us. And Morris said, no they won't. So they'd go over and get the food and eat it, and they didn't die. And so the people then, people would start coming to Christ. I think we're almost out of time, but did we have a presentation? Was somebody going to do that? Yeah. You have it there? I would, while they're finding their stuff, I would encourage everyone, there's a lot of stories that we can tell that this is just an overview, and we've just touched on the highlights, honestly. It has profoundly affected all of us, and we can really get into some stories, but I encourage you, see some of the stuff that Gloria put up here, ask us questions, ask us to show you pictures, more pictures of all the different kids and different things that we did. because it's a true blessing. And the opportunities that we see there that the mission teams are going to discuss, it's more than we can handle. But we've got to start somewhere. And I think there's plenty of opportunity for us. Pastor? One quick moment as Rob's coming forward. One of the things that I found great encouragement from is the pictures that you all sent back while you were over there. One of the things that struck me was every time we found one of you, You were surrounded by smiling, wonderful faces of different color. I'll use the example when there were three men together. It wasn't three white guys and all the rest black. It was white integrated. It was beautiful. Thank you for that. Are you going to sing? It's a traditional wrap. I don't know exactly what they did with it but apparently they used it And they're not supposed to fall off, by the way. They did a much better job of wrapping themselves than I did. But each one of them had our name on it. It was personalized. And then they also sent one back for the church and one for Pastor Rob as well. So we're going to see if we can wrap it around him. Maybe his will stay on. I don't know.