Rodney from The Journey pointed me towards this post at Pure Christianity.
I've been on a bit of a search of the blogosphere to find some missos in Kenya, and thanks to Rodney I've found a first hand account of what's going on.
The end is no where in sight. I am sure we will see the violence in the cities end soon enough, police and paramilitary units are being deployed in large numbers. This past week has left scars that I think will take a generation to heal.
You see this fight is not political. The fighting is about what language you speak. Racial hatred is the root of the problem, the faulty elections were just an excuse.
Our ministry will respond, but the scale of the damage is massive. There are at least 30,000 displaced people. New orphans have been created. Poverty has been intensified. The bottom of the ladder has just become much more crowded, not that there was much room down here before this past week.
Pray for everyone in Kenya, for those who need God's protection as their lives implode around them, for the missionaries and aid workers in the country that they can provide what is needed to get Kenya back on its feet, and for those causing all this trouble, that their hatred and intolerance can be muted by the grace of Jesus.
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I am praying.
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