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Written by Greg Murray
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
 Every time we left our home, we noticed a young woman sitting on the ground. She sits at the only cross road in Gisambi with a small bucket begging for money. We made some enquiries and discovered that she has only been in the village for a few months. She came from another village but the local people do not know where she came from. No one knows her name because she cannot communicate.
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
 East Africa School of Mission (EASM) is becoming a training centre for all of East Africa. It is exciting to see that we now have a number of students from various countries. Of course, we have students from Kenya. There have also been some students from Uganda over the past few years. But now there are students from Tanzania and last week, a student from Rwanda.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
 We spent this week at East Africa School of Mission (EASM). The college began in 2007 and is a part of Word of Faith in Mbale. YPC has supported the vision of Bishop Isaac Wawire to develop missionary leaders. There are a number of graduates that are already running churches and involved in various ministries. This week Greg taught the principles of Bible Interpretation which is called Hermeneutics.
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
 On Saturday we spent time at Care Compassion Home. We particularly focused on being with Benson who is the Director of the home.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Saturday, 15 May 2010 |
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Today we had to travel from our home in Gisambi to Kisumu to collect manuals for a training course Greg begins to teach on Monday. The distance from Gisambi to Kisumu is not far but because of the condition of the roads it takes some time. We walked to where the local motorbike taxis are waiting for customers.
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
 Our last two days in Nairobi included a wedding and ministering in a church service. On Saturday we attended the wedding of Judith and Samson. We met Judith 13 years ago in Kibera slum.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
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Today we travelled from Nairobi to Mbale. It was quite a journey. So here is a ‘true travel blog’. First, the plane was delayed. We finally got on our way and it was stormy which provided some good turbulence.
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Friday, 07 May 2010 |
 Today we had our final day of training with the leaders from Tumaini. Our final lesson focused on how to apply Bible truth. It was a very lively discussion when we came to the issue of teaching a principle from the Bible within our own culture. One question was, “Do we follow our own culture or the teachings of the Bible?”
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Written by Greg Murray
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 |
 The past three days I have been running a course for Tumaini Ministry. Tumaini is a ministry within the slums of Nairobi and they plant churches and medical centres. Over the 14 years I have been coming to Kenya, I have been working alongside them providing training to their church leaders in the area of Bible interpretation.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
 Pastor Steve and Bishop Isaac shared about partnership on the final night of the Exchange Summit. They spoke about how the relationship between Yarra Plenty Church and Praise Centre begun through an introduction from Bishop Thomas Muthee.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 |
 We are now in our final day of Exchange. The past few days have been a time of God moving through the Exchange Summit. We have had African speakers as well as Australian speakers. Each one of them has spoke into our partnership - the African Church and the Australian Church serving side by side.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
 Last night the Exchange Summit began. African church and community leaders and Australian church and community leaders came together. It started with an amazing prayer meeting followed by a time of worshiping our God together. It is a wonderful unifying experience worshiping God as His children no matter your language, culture or skin colour.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
On Friday was the graduation for East Africa School of Mission. 26 students graduated from the college with a lot of celebration. 
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Written by Greg Murray
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
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 The creative team has been in a number of primary schools ministering to the children. At one of them, the Headmaster made a decision to follow Jesus! Aidan had the opportunity to pray with him and
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Written by Greg Murray
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Sunday, 18 April 2010 |
 Today we focused on our primary health care project. Andrew, Sallie, Sue & I had a series of meetings with public officers in the heath sector. We met the District Health Officer to discuss the Kenyan health plan and how we could assist in achieving certain elements of that plan in this local area. Here is Andrew Shelton with him.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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Day 2: The highlight today was spending time at Care Compassion Home.
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Written by Greg Murray
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
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We arrived on Tuesday night at around 10.00pm (local time). After travelling for 30 hours it was good to finally be here. On our 3rd and final flight, we could not land in Kisumu due to a violent storm over the airport. We circled the area for 20 minutes waiting for it to clear but it was not moving. So we had to return to Nairobi. After waiting to see if we would have to stay in Nairobi, we were told by the ground staff that we were flying back, we just had to wait for the plane to be refueled.
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