Mission to Meru, Kenya

A Photo Albumby

Al and Walker SchlundtSummer 2001

A Note of Thanks to Our Mission Sponsors

First Presbyterian Church East Moline Illinois

Thanks, from the bottom of our hearts for your investment in our work with our Christian brothers in Meru.

Al and Walker Schlundt

East Africa

We flew Swissair by way of Zurich to arrive in Nairobi in late June, 2001.

Mount Kenya and Meru

We spent most of our time working out of the Kambakia Training Center near Meru Town on the northwest side of Mt. Kenya.

The Alabama Team

Walker, Travis, Jeremy and Thomas

Richard Marinda Al

The Kenya Team

Mark Daniel ‘Becca

The Team with Katherine and her family

Kambakia Training Center

We stayed here for two weeks. Richard taught 25 Kenyan missionaries the book of Revelation in the meeting hall while we did bible school activities in the local community.

Living at KTC

We ate in shifts in the small living room of the caretakers quarters.

The boys stayed in a tent until the missionaries left after Richard’s lessons.

Part of the time we helped Mark improve the facilities.

Kenyan Food

We ate the local foods. Meals were dominated by potatoes, corn, beans and kale.

Establishing New Churches

Loyford helped plant the seed of a church in a Maasai settlement about an hour north of Timau.

Maua VBS

The Maua Church allowed our team to put on a Saturday Bible Studies for their children.

Bible School at Local Churches

While the guys were indoors teaching the younger children Al was outside leading and discussion with the teenagers.

Preaching in Local Churches

Richard delivering the message in Kameru at a local church

Resolving Church Differences

Elders and wives of the Chuka Church

Richard and former elder, Mogo

Old Friends

Makena and Marinda in Makena’s pea fields

The Meru Marketplace

The Friday market in Meru Townwas an intense experience.

A wide assortment of dried food materials were available. Most of these sacks (left) contained varieties of legumes.

A Grown Son Gets His Own Home!

After circumcision a teenaged boy often gets his own house on his father’s compound.

AIDS and the Dangers of Female Circumcision

Makena has been actively involved with educating local women about the risks and dangers of AIDS and of the risks of practicing female circumcision on teen aged girls.

Kenyan Agriculture

We got many opportunities to see the way the Meru people grew crops and livestock. Cattle, sheep goats and chickens were the preferred animals while corn, beans, potatoes and kale were the preferred crops. Dried grains were often stored in special thatched huts.

Agribusiness on the Shoulders of Mount Kenya

Mark is actively involved in the development of some excellent farmland in the highlands above Timau. Above he and Richard are discussing the position of a dam Mark intends to build for holding irrigation water. Is this the future site of a Church-sponsored university?

Kenyan National Parks

You can’t imagine how exciting it was to be face to face with the big game!

A Visit to Baden-Powell’s Grave

We also had an opportunity to visit the last home and final resting spot of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts.

Return to Meru

Walker and I had a great adventure with the Trulls in the Meru District.of Kenya. We look forward eagerly to the next opportunity to visit our new Kenyan Christian friends. When will we return? Sooner than you might think. During the trip Richard and I continuously discussed how to handle the logistics a larger group of missionary-minded Faulkner students in a return visit. Will you be going with us?

Al and

Walker