The smallest church in the world...

We have driven past this little church dozens of times this year and finally stopped in on Saturday. It's a tiny chapel in the Rift Valley and it was built in 1942 by Italian POWs. According to Mrs. Miller, the woman who has been restoring the church over the last several years, this is the smallest church in the world (although we're not sure of the validity of that statement!). It is a very tiny church and the original paintings are still preserved. The story goes that the POWs built the church on their lunch breaks over a period of five years.

Last visit of the year to the Vumilia IDP Library...

On Saturday, June 4th, we made our last trip of the year down to the Vumilia IDP camp in the Rift Valley. ISK art students had painted an old desk for the library (to serve as the librarian's desk) and their vibrant designs gave the desk a new sense of life and purpose. We delivered the desk on Saturday along with a box of books from Canada that arrived last week. A wonderful selection of Robert Munsch stories, Clifford and Franklin stories, and young adult fiction titles have now joined the offerings on the library shelves. During our visit we were able to chat with the country director for Habitat for Humanity; he was on site to direct a team of 200 doctors and church members building houses for the day. We are already looking forward to finishing up projects at the library in 2011/12, and we are also excited about the budding women's cooperative and our involvement with their economic empowerment projects. What a blessing to be involved with this community!