The flight was long with a few delays but we made it to Nairobi Airport and were met my Marlene's twin brother and his wife who have been serving with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) for the past26 years. They were excited to have thier first visitors from Marvin's side of the family and we were sure glad to see a welcome face. By the time we got to their home, we carried all our luggage up the 4 flights of stairs and tucked into bed by 1:00 a.m. Early the next morning, Kyle, Marvin and I went to the AIM (African Inland Mission) aviation headquarters where I did a teaching session on "Maintaining a Heart for God" I shared about King Amaziah in 11Chron 25:1-2 where it tells us he served God all his life, but not with a whole/loyal heart. I shared some symptoms of a divided heart, some filters to catch the thief of our heart, the road back from a divided heart to a heart commited wholeheartedly to God. Ps 51:10 reminds us that even the great King David cried out to God to create a clean heart in us. The pilots, mehcanics and staff were very attentive as they sipped on their hot tea with suger and cream.
We toured the AIM Aviation Hanger and offices and got to sit in the cockpit of the Samaritan's Purse DC3 first built in 1945. Marvin is the Executive director for all of AIM in Eastern Africa and has a busy week planned for us. After visiting his offices and meeting his staff we headed home for a short nap. The first evening Marvin and I helped one of the single young missionary ladies move to another home. It was pouring down raining and we felt like the Clampetts from the Beverly Hillbilly's TV series from years ago as we put her box springs and several other things strapped to the top of the land crusier since the inside was packed with all her other things. Her apartment was about 10 X 10 and you would not believe all the stuff she had in that little space. She moved into a larger suite of about 11 X 11. We were soaked when we got home and got tied up in a traffic jam for about an hour.
Overall a great first day.
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