VISITORS FROM HILLCREST
Harrison, Arkansas

PART 1

During the first week of October we had the privilege of hosting a group from Hillcrest Nursing Home in Harrison Arkansas. The Home offers a foreign trip to one of the missions to those who volunteer their time at the home for at least 15 months. This time it was to Kenya. Twenty-two years ago I had served a year at Hillcrest so personally this was interesting. Leonard and Caroline Mast came as supervisors. Among the group were David Zook, Aaron Yoder, Sandra Yoder, Diane Wipf, Julie Martin and Janae Miller. They were with us here in Kisumu for one week and then spent the second week in Nakuru, 2-3 hours away.

During their stay in Kisumu, we took them on a tour to see an elderly couple from the Kajulu church far up on the mountain side. Diote and Perez are Mennonite squatters on government land. No one seems to care that they are there. Only half of the group is pictured here because some of the men were further up the mountain in search of baboons.

Jenipher Juma, one of our widowed church sisters, had a delicious Kenya meal for us. The mountain setting at her house is very pleasant with the meal outside under the trees. Our peace was somewhat disturbed, however, with the half grown chicken that insisted on flapping over the table, taking several mighty pecks at the ugali (cooked cornmeal) in the process.


Group leaders, Leonard and Caroline Mast.

Janae Miller, cuddling a little Kenyan toddler. In background is Daniel Kauffman, Aaron Yoder and Sam Kauffman.

to be continued...