Mamlaka Hill Chapel

 This last Sunday we visited another one of the Nairobi Church family, this time Mamlaka Hill Chapel. This was the site where Nairobi Chapel worshipped at the Nairobi University, In 2005 Nairobi Chapel moved to Ngong Rd, while the church at the university became Mamlaka Chapel (Mamlaka means 'authority' in kiswahili).

Mamlaka has about 2000 people coming to three services on Sunday morning.

On the  wall inside the office was this cool banner...

Yes, Mamlaka sent a team to NZ in 2014, spending time in Dunedin, and Tauranga, and a number of other places.  We met Frank, who went to NZ with the team, spending time at St. John's Roslyn in Dunedin.
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During the Viral church planting conference we met Joseph. He and his wife Alice are about to embark on  two exciting life adventures - One their first child and secondly they plan to travel to Wanganui in February to take up positions as pastors in a church there.

We went to visit them on Saturday, We  drove to a place called Kinoo about 20kms north of Nairobi. Joseph gave us fantastic instructions which included driving past Kinoo and off the highway, underneath it and back onto it again (not part of the instructions was flying over an unseen speedbump)...

"drive back to Kinoo and past 'national oil petrol station' Keep left and start slowing down, Watch out for the unruly matatus -public transport vehicles-

matatu - these obey their own road rules including driving
on the wrong side of the road!!

while you are at it. You will see a blue 'car wash' signboard on the your left and an exit immediately after it. Exit the highway and make a sharp left turn - Drive a little past the car wash then take the first right....'
At this point, the road was more of a series of speed bumps formed in the dirt, along with many obstacles to avoid - donkeys, goats, people, boda bodas (motorbike taxi), tuk tuks, etc

But really - no dramas - our little Nissan Note is doing pretty well.

We had such a wonderful time with this special couple and look forward to spending more time back in NZ.

Joseph and Alice were part of the Mamlaka team that went to NZ in 2014. Before we came here we had seen a fantastic video of Alice's reflections of NZ.

Another week is under way....