Aristides A.D 125 describing Christians of his time: “They walk in all humility and kindness, and falsehood is not found among them and they love one anther. They despise not the widow, and grieve not the orphan. He that hath distributeth liberally to him that hath not. If they see a stranger, they bring him under their roof, and rejoice over him as if he were their own brother: for they call themselves brethren, but not after the flesh, but after the Spirit of God……..And if there is among them a person that is poor or needy, and they have not an abundance of necessaries, they fast two or three days that they may supply the needy with their necessary food.”
Sunday, May 3rd was a very special day for the hospital and the Methodist Church in Kenya. But I will start with Saturday, May 2nd. That evening Presiding Bishop Rev. Dr. Stephen Kanyaru and his wife, Mercy, had dinner with us. What a privilege it was to have them in our home. I have spoken of both of them in the past. Rev. Dr. Kanyaru built the new Methodist Conference Center in Nairobi and did it in one year. Mercy came to Maua for our Alternative Rite of Passage for our young women in December 2008. One thing that makes me so grateful to both of them is the way they work as a team. Mercy Kanyaru is attending all the Synod Meetings with her husband. There are ten Synods (what we would call districts in the UMC) and while they were here they saw anyone who wanted to talk to them. They literally spent every minute they were not in meetings or eating talking to the people who want or need to see them. Mercy is a graduate of the Maua Methodist Hospital School of Nursing and has literally nursed in hospitals all around Kenya. She is very proactive in her work for women and girls. Some of the people that come to see them are women who need Mercy’s support, understanding and wisdom. For someone in Presiding Bishop’s position it is very unusual to bring your wife and work as a team...more>>
