A Celebration for Silas

A Celebration

Feb 6

Last night we all went over to Silas and Eunice’s house to celebrate Silas’s new full time job with Kenya Power.  Silas was a casual employee for 5 years and he finally received his papers for full time employment. Now in order to celebrate the occasion the family and others gathered to celebrate a thanksgiving for God’s unfailing provision.  We all came together and a praise song was sung in Swahili, and then we all spoke to Silas and Eunice about our hopes for them. I told them that the first thing they needed to do was to find a place to live and to find a church where they can fellowship.  After everyone spoke we finally ate dinner, now mind you it was 10pm when we dug into the food. AND yes the food was really good, although I didn’t eat a lot. 

Before we went over to Silas’s place I had no idea why we were going. When I saw Beatrice drive up, I was shocked because I know she’s busy working on her Master’s degree and spare time isn’t something she has a lot of.  That was when I thought something is up, but I didn’t know what it was. It was only after we were all sitting in the tiny living room that I was told why we were all there. I should get used to this or at least ask why we do something. Often I have no idea what we are doing, but there is a purpose or reason and I just haven’t been told. I’m beginning to think it’s just how Kenyan’s do things. I imagine that I’ll get used to it eventually, and then I’ll come home.LOL.