A cool thing happened to me a while back. One morning while we were having breakfast Pastor Unity told me a couple of cool stories. While he was in bible college in Nairobi Kenya the students where sent out for ten days to various areas so they could be challenged and serve in a place they were unused to. For instance he said those from the country would be sent into the city and vise versa. He said these ten days had ten years worth of trials.
His first time he was sent into a slum in a city near Nairobi. He said that this church he was sent to had ten members. The place he was given to stay was about 3 meters by 1. it had a small bed that had bed bugs and a table. he would eat at these people’s houses, each day a different church member would be in charge of feeding him. he said they would eat in these tiny “houses” little bigger than his room, the walls and ceiling made from sheet metal so it was incredibly hot during the day. Also the narrow streets were also where people went to the bathroom and it was the rainy season. I can only try to imagine. He said he stayed the ten days and went back healthy and no one could believe he went there for ten days because he looked so good. After he went there the pastor of the church left and Unity took it over. He loved that church and continued to pastor there until the slums where demolished.
The second time he went out he and nine others went to the driest part of Kenya. they had been there only two days when seven of the men had to be taken by helicopter to the nearest hospital because they were so sick. He and three others stayed but after five days the other two had to leave. He stayed for the full ten days though and didn’t get sick. He said they would drink hardly any water at all. They would have a tiny glass, like a shot glass full at meals. He said the water was the color of the table, a dark brown. He said if you tried to tell them that water was clear they would say no that it was brown.
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