Soul Edge Girls

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So the Last update was Turkana!!! Sorry it has been so long. The first picture here is one of Millie's showing people coming out of the bush with the pastor (and police man) to come see us, have food, talk about God and pray together and have fellowship... it was amazing. The second picture should be of our team - we actually have some impressive jumping ones but alas I cant find one uploaded yet, so this will have to do. Here we are on Mt. Elgon. The same day we went into 3 big bat caves... so the third picture is of Gemma dramatically entering the caves!! After getting back from Turkana we were working on the Ester home for the teenage moms, and that was when Hannah fell off a lader and hurt her ankle. That is why Mt. Kenya was persponed until tomorrow!!! (the end of the trip). Han is great now, but if you could pray for our whole teams health going up the mountain it would be brilliant. Becky has been in a bit of discomfort recently, so specific prayer for Becky's chest and her hike would be amazing. Everyone on the team is fit enough and able to summit on Mt. Kenya, so we would love the whole team to get there! Since the Mt. Kenya trip was moved, we had 3 weeks in Kitale. It was hectic! We had sessions.... one of the highligths was Daniel (from Youth Apart) talking on holiness... it was really moving. As well as sessions, we had school assemblies, and lots of work to do on the Ester home getting it ready- and Amen, all the painting and all is finished. We have the furniture too.... all we need to do is get it in the buildings! We are so excited for the girls to move in. The plot of the home is lovely and set back from the road. There is lots of green space for the kids to run around in, and the church and Love Mercy ministries are all on the same compound which makes it a great location. We particularly love the banana trees! Wednesdays meant visiting the Ester girls and giving biblestudies. During our time here each girl gave a study - though Becky opted for a prayer time so Nadia went twice. Nadia has a really amazing ability to pray powerfully. It is wonderful to see :) These bible studies and speaking at the local school really prepared each one of our team for our recent Uganda trip. EVERYONE spoke. Kiri- J.T.B, repentence, gospel - When you feel in Chains ( mainly Acts and Phil) - Testimony etc. Hannah- The 'sinful' woman who annointed Jesus' feet with purfume - The power of prayer/Elijah - GospelGemma and Laura- Spiritual GiftsLaura- Abigail and Nabal/ in 1 Sam - looking at Abigail's character and what we can learnLauren- a study on: 2 Cron 7:14 - "If my people will humble themselves ..."Nadia- TestimonyBecky- Encouragement - Plan for your lifeMillie- Hope - Testimony And everyone did kids ministry at some time!!! the 2 main sessions days looked at: (1) The Armour or God(2) - We are going on a JOURNEY!!!-- Pauls Missionary Journeys.. Whilst waiting for the Uganda trip to come abou we were still VERY busy. WE had 2 main trips. (1) Mt. Elgon trip (2) Animal farm/camping trip. The Mt. Elgon trip was great fun. It was so nice to get out of Kitale and do something very different. As soon as we got there we had a mini jungle safari.... many gals stuck heads out of roofs or sat on the window ledges. But since the elephants were out of the park that day we only saw monkeys, amazing birds and deer 'water' bucks and...................BATS!!!Now seeing the other wildlife was a bonus, as we had come primarily to investigate BAT CAVES!With headtorches, we all clambered and jumped from rock to rock (avoiding massive patches of bat poo where possible). We were in complete darkness as we went deeper and deeper into the caves. I was glad that my torch wasnt too bright and that way I wouldnt be put off by some spindly spiders. AS we got closer we would hear high pitch squeeks and a clikcing almost like static or electricity!! The caves went back so so far! It was a grat experince. If we shon our torches on the Bats you could see their eyes reflecting like cats eyes, and a suddenly flow of them would spill our of the crevices above...... Everyone conquored the caves, seeing their extent!!! At the mouths of the caves we also were able to step into a crystal like shower stream that flowed down. For some of the girls that was too much to miss!!! The caves are often frequented by Elephant aparently liking the stones for salt! We didnt find any elephant boes despite a potential sighting.... but it would have bee fun, and tehre are some there. After our explotations... a 2 or 3 hour hike ensued. The girls vastly outpaced Daniel and Mwange who were with us from Youth Apart! We all put them to shame! Overall an amazing day. The second trip was to The animal farm. Now despite boasting some intersting animals, we also had a great time camping there. We had a big 10 man tent, and after our tour of the area and boat racing on a small river (which included pirate capture and hostage taking (nadia :) ).... we had some spontanous fun. Nadia decided to climb a coconut plam tree that had fallen over a river. The further she went the more she knew she had to keep going- it was at about 45 degrees. We were amazed at her effort!!! bare foot hanging over this muddy river! Now as Laura bounced on the tree... and as Nadia got further up, it got more creaky..... Kiri (me) ran around the windy park roads to get to the other side of the river to help nadia swing off to the bank. Now just as tehy were clearing away branches.... there came a massive CRACK and the partially fallen tree fell down into the river. Nads was fine, it was just pretty epic and a shock. It was a shame as lauren had just stopped videoing at this point! Nads was rescued and it was all quite funny especially as the park attendents heard the collapse and ran to see the incident!!!! Apart from that, fire starting was a valiant effort by Han, Laura, Gems and Bex, while Kiri, Millie, Lauren, Nads and our friend Irene went fishing for lunch on a boat! Two flish were eventually caught by our Kenyan contingent.. one small beautiful fish and one GIANT CATFISH!!! Lets just say gutting and cooking the CATFISH was an episode. Everyone enjoyed the camping, and it was a great team time before UGANDA. Now Uganda, apart from Speaking had many other elements... but I will only touch on a few. We visted AIDS/HIV touched homes....interviewed people as part of church projects.... Recorded data and took pictures for a database of children in a similar way to Compassion... had to sing alot.... and received 2 chickens (which mysteriously went missing!!!). I will let the girls fill you in on everything else....I havn't even got onto cleaning the kids hospital ward at the Kitale district hospital....feeding the kids and families there.... handing out/preparing wheelchairs there.... or my African "disolvable but not really disolvable" stitches in my thumb!!! There are too many stories, and so many amazing things the lord has done! And there are new people in the Kingdom in Uganda after the trip- amen :). It is so amazing how teh lord has used us as we ahve been stepping out and we all desire to see more of it. So watch this space! But thank you all so much for your amazing love, support and help! We cant wait for the UK stop-over! Blessings Kiri, Hannah and all the Soul Edge girls, 2009.