Kenya Team Day 6

We leave for Mombasa in the evening so we made use of the morning to visit with Zaccias and Doreen who started SODA School ( Supporting Orphans & Destitute Academy). They had the team over for breakfast and to share the story that is SODA. Here is the short version:  As a young married couple Zac & Doreen were involved in local politics. African politics can be dangerous they explained, so the opponent and his party (of thugs) had her abducted, beaten and were preparing to kill her and throw her under a train bridge. Through a series of miracles due to Zac’s prayer and Doreen’s courage she was released accidently by one of the abductors just around the corner from her own home! She recovered but it set them on a course to really serve God and their people. They started a school with 20 kids and it has blossomed into a significant force for God of 383 kids, a goodly portion of which are orphans. It’s been said – you measure greatness by what it takes to stop someone. If that is true- we had the privilege of meeting two great people.
 
It’s 7pm and we are on the Train to Mombasa… it’s like going back in a time warp into a 1950’s black and white movie.
This train is old, rusty and it defies logic how it still runs, in fact we are bit skeptical it’ll make the 12 hour overnight ride to Mombasa. We are all checked into our sleeper cars, 4 to room with two sets of bunk beds. And we rambled, rock and rolled down the tracks out of Nairobi through some of the wild areas of Kenya. We were told this is the actual train line that was made famous around 1900 when it was the scene of the famous lion attacks at Tsavo. Two male lions attacked the railway workers and killed over 130 people before they were stopped. Their lions skins hang in a British museum. The Movie “The Ghost and Darkness “ chronicle the incidents. It goes without saying, between the Lion story and the bumpy  ride with numerous stops along the way… we didn’t sleep much. We arrived in Mombasa, alive, red eyed and grateful at around 10 am.

Pastor Gary