Last weekend was action-packed.

On Saturday morning I was up at 0540 to join several others from the orientation training to go on SAFARI!

Nairobi has an enormous wildlife park literally on its doorstep. They had to erect fences to stop the lions entering the outskirts of the city.

We spent several hours being driven around the park, seeing animals near and far. Here you can see a rhino in the middle-ground, and the sky scrapers of Nairobi in the back-ground.

Close to the car we saw baboons, impala, ostriches, guinea fowl, rhinos, wildebeest and a lion who was on the way to have a wildebeest for breakfast until some birds alerted his prey to the danger.

We also saw submerged hippos, buffalo, zebras, a warthog chasing a hyena, vultures, gazelles and giraffes.

Here is the epitomy of the children’s game, sleeping lions

But we didn’t get out of the car, because as the African proverb goes:

A lion sleeps with his teeth.

Then on Sunday we attended church in a suburb of Nairobi.

African Inland Churches were set up decades ago by the African Inland Mission, the organisation that we are with in Kenya. The churches have been independent of the mission organisation for many, many years, but they still honour the association.

We went to AIC Donholm, in a suburb in the east of Nairobi.

They made us very welcome, inviting us up to the front to introduce ourselves. We had notes on how to introduce ourselves in Kiswahili, and most of the service was in Kiswahili, although fortunately not the sermon. I had been warned that sometimes visitors are asked to preach, so I had notes for a short sermon in my bible, but fortunately they didn’t suggest this.

Afterwards we were invited for lunch with the pastor and his wife, and met the elders and other leaders in the church.