May 19, 2006

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  Just returned from Kenya, where I spent a week organizing the Summer Mission Team visit coming up in June as well as the plan for our medical intern, a visit with our Central Territory officers the McDowell’s, and also a meeting and dinner with the Child Sponsorship Secretary. I was all over the country and the week was amazing. I can’t sort it all yet, so I just want to share a piece that I can–my meeting with the Cheetahs at the National Park Animal Orphanage. Above, you can see one being fed. Serious hunk of meat.

  
  

  

  
  

  Here I am, in the cage, petting the Cheetahs!! This was the most fasinating thing to me…and while I was petting them, one purred! I was trying to think why I thought this was so cool, and I realized that for one thing a wild cat that could shred me to bits was letting me pet him. And also, that back in the states if one was allowed to “pet the Cheetahs”, one would be standing in a line for about two hours at Wild Kingdom or wherever. Well, it was a thrill anyway, and a nice break in an otherwise very busy, business-like week!

  
  

  

  
  

  Captain Kennedy Ombajo, one of the hosts that took me around on the set-up visits. A very gracious and kind man.

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