Travel Day

Well, today's the big day. 

Our team departs from KCI at 1:20pm. We will connect through Detroit and Amsterdam to Nairobi. We will arrive in Kenya at about 8:30 pm New Year's Eve, and we will bring in the New Year with a handful of students from Daystar University. What a great way to get over jet lag! 

KC to Detroit - 2 hour flight - 2 hour layover

Detroit to Amsterdam - 8 hour flight - 3 hour layover

Amsterdam to Nairobi 8 hour flight - arrive at 8:30 pm Kenya Time

So if you are doing the math we will be traveling for a little over 24 hours. One other fun fact is that Nairobi is 8 hours ahead of Central Standard Time, so at noon in Kansas City, its 8:00 pm at the Athi River Campus.  More from the next Airport...

People & Project

As the semester wraps up we are looking forward to our adventures in Kenya. Our primary goal is to build relationships with our hosts at Daystar University. Each of our students will be paired up with a student from Daystar. We will all be lodging in residence halls and working on a nearby ministry center that is under construction called the "Ukarimu House." More about the Ukarimu House in another posting. Our construction project involves building at least one of two very large water holding tanks.

In Nairobi, I'm told that most of the rain falls during one month for the whole year. So, in an effort to make the "Ukarimu House" self sustaining, they will channel all run off water into these holding tanks. The holes will be dug before we arrive, so we will do what it takes to seal the bottom and then build the brick walls that complete the tank. The finishing touch is a large concrete slab that is placed over the top.

You may want to know who will be a part of this adventure...

From William Jewell, Liberty, MO

Jeff Buscher

Elizabeth Bonney

Andrew Kirk

Sarah Taylor

Dawn Ferguson

Elizabeth Warth

Brittany Talley

From Carroll College, Helena, MT

James Buscher

Jennifer Weisser

Eugene Burke

Deo Fisus Labora,  Jeff

Get Set Blog

In the near future I will be traveling with a team of students to Nairobi, Kenya. Six students from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO  and three from Carroll College in Helena, MT.  We are connecting with a Jewell alumni, to do some construction and ministry projects at Daystar University. I've started this page so folks can keep up with our adventures on this and other future service projects.

And since we engage in these kinds of trips regularly, I guess its about time we share at least one version of our events on the good old world wide web!  Over the past few years we have done hurricane recovery work in Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Ice storm clean up in Missouri. Served on the Cheyenne Reservation in South Dakota. Built homes in Honduras. Partnered with various churches and ministries in New York City and St. Louis. Flood recovery work in Cedar Rapids, IA. And we are always doing projects in the Kansas City area. So stay tuned for blogs about our upcoming projects.   Deo Fisus Labora - JB