Leaving on a Jet Plane

As I sit here and wait for a whole swack of documents to print, I'll just update my blog for a minute... The documents are some of the plans and articles that I've been making and using for the workshops that we're planning, starting in August. It's hard for me to do things so far in advance, but since I'll be a student for 4 weeks, I've got to get my head around some of these things now.

The more I think about the work that I've been doing here with the Ministry of Education, the more I see God's hand in his guidance in it all. The things I'm doing now - planning literacy and education workshops and sessions, isn't quite as scary to me since I had a bit of practice in lesson planning and teaching back at CanIL last year. The fact that I'm working with Moses, who was a participant in a course that I helped with in Nairobi 2 and 3 years ago is also God's hand in it all. I certainly wouldn't have the same sort of relationship with Moses that I have now if God hadn't somehow worked it for me to be at that course in Nairobi.

The more I think about it, the more I can see how God has been preparing me for the past few years for this huge job of being involved in helping to plan a national education system. I had no idea at the time, but God certainly did. It's a good reminder to myself that there are no wasted steps - God is using each new thing that I do for His purpose, and for His glory. I know that this next step and short phase in Nairobi will be exactly the same. I may not know exactly why I'm going to take this course at this time, but God does, and he has ordained that this is where I should be going tomorrow.

On that note, though, I would appreciate prayers for smooth travels. Even though I do know my way around Nairobi a bit more these days, I still get a little nervous arriving at that airport. You just never know what's going to happen, or what kind of taxi driver you're going to get. And I have a very short window of time to meet together with my friend tomorrow afternoon who is on her way home from my beloved E-land! She will have some letters for me from my friends there, and there is only a window of a few hours to meet her. So if I get too delayed at the airport, I might miss her :( And that would be stinky.