Kitale Town

We love the compound we get to stay in while we are in Kitale, Kenya. It’s home. It's a refuge for many missionaries passing through, some for a day, some for a week, some for even as long as a month, a year or even years. The secluded hideaway is dotted with various structures for each of us to use and is run by a lovely British renegade lawyer gal who fell in love and married a Kenyan. They do everything to make us feel at home. She understands us and becomes a friend, understanding and compassionate to all of our little wants and needs. She tells us, "Just because you come to Africa, you don't have to suffer." I say, "Amen!" to that as I drink another of her delicious one-of-a-kind pressed coffees. Their living room is a hub for ex-pat comraderie and sharing of stories.

The City Center – the market and shops of Kitale are 2 miles away – so we walk there every day, to and fro. It's enchanting, quiet, peaceful, fascinating. Kitale is at an elevation of 6,000 ft. The air is clean, the forests are lush, the people friendly in this ultra-rural agricultural region of western Kenya. We truly love it here. Our first day back, John Wanyonyi shouted to us, "Welcome home to Kitale, the place where Jesus lives!" And, I think he could be right!

Just check out some of the sites we get to see every day: