The good news is school started back today. The bad news is Mary Shea is sick. The good news is she will be able to go back by Thursday, the doctor said. The bad news is school has been cancelled from Wednesday through Friday because of proposed political rallies to be held all over the country by the opposition party. Please pray that these rallies are indeed what the opposition leader calls civil disobedience.
The government has vowed that they will not let the rallies happen. U.S. based Human Rights Watch was on the news tonight pleading with the government to let them happen. Regardless, please pray that they do not spiral into chaos and violence but remain calm and peaceful.
BBC is just now reporting that a government minister is saying that “there was no need for former U.N. Chief Kofi Annan to visit Kenya on Tuesday to lead fresh mediation efforts.”
"If Kofi Annan is coming, he is not coming at our invitation," the minister said. “We won the elections so we do not see the point for anyone coming to mediate power-sharing." Please pray that common sense will also prevail in this on-going saga.
While we are praying for peaceful demonstrations, we are still preparing for the worst. Today we stocked up on food for about the next 10 days. Our plan is to hunker down until any potential violence once again passes. We also filled up the cars with fuel and bought pre-paid air-time for our telephones. While we bought a lot more groceries than we normally buy and expected to spend more, we couldn’t help but notice how much more expensive everything is. A bag of pasta went up from 76 to 86 Kenya Shillings in a week. 16 apples cost me approximately $10. I paid over $6 a gallon for gas today. While all we have suffered are inconveniences, if they keep going like this, it is going to get pretty darn hard.
We will write more tomorrow as we hear news. Thank you for your prayers.
Horace
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