From the WMLT Blog: Africa Trip:Kenya
Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 3:34PM The following post is provided by Rev. Dr. Albert Collver III, LCMS Director for Church Relations, as found on the LCMS Witness, Mercy, Life Together Blog. The original is posted here.
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Africa Trip: Kenya
Dr. Al Collver, Archbishop Walter Obare, and President Harrison in Nairobi Kenya.
On 22 January 2014, President Harrison visited the headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya (ELCK), in altar and pulpit fellowship with the LCMS and a member of the International Lutheran Council (ILC), to celebrate a decade of LCMS work with the ELCK. President Harrison, then executive director of World Relief and Human Care, visited Kenya in December 2003 at the request of then Bishop Walter Obare.
Former street children from Nakuru now under the care of the ELCK demonstrated gymnastics for the LCMS delegation.
A choir sings gospel songs.
Archbishop Obare and Rev. Shauen Trump discuss how the LCMS and the ELCK can better cooperate.
View of Children’s Traffic park on Uhuru Road from the headquarters of the ELCK.
President Harrison, Dr. Collver, and Rev. Shauen Trump spent the day with Archbishop Obare and the bishops and bishops elect from each region of the ELCK. Remembrance of the past and hope for the future occupied the day.
President Harrison and Dr. Collver departed Kenya for Ethiopia.
- Posted on 23 January 2014 by Dr. Albert Collver using BlogPress from my iPhone