IN-TUNE A CAPPELLA

The Masinde Muliro Concert, hosted by the Drama Band in conjunction with the Nairobi Central Youth Choir kicked off spectacularly, albeit late, with an opening prayer from Becky Nguru and then a wonderful praise and worhip session led by Esther Mokaya and her. This really got the congregation in the mood of the concert, which ended with some Kiswahili worship songs, and then another prayer of blessing and posterity.

You guessed it, once again In-Tune kicked off the concert with the song ‘Can You See His Blood’, which little did we know, would be our only item for the entire duration of the night. The Youth Choir sang, the MMUSDA Choir marched and the Drama band acted all insync as they made the evening one to remember, including for its shortness and abrupt end, because time had caught up with us. It was around 10.30 pm by the time people were vacating the mess, rather unbelievable because it was all over and done with before we knew what had hit us.

I guess guys felt short changed of more blessings because we had prepared a lot more to share but time constraints had not permitted it to be so. So I can honestly say not everyone was happy at the end of the long day. Retiring to the hostels, I was too exhausted to stay awake, but from what I garnered the following day, Jamo isn’t too happy with my ‘sleeping as a baby’ antics and there are a number of nocturnal creatures form Central Church who accompanied us. It was too bad the likes of Joseph, Bernard and Edwin had not accompanied us; then it would have been a consummation.

Surprisingly, on the day we were to head back, one would have expected guys to sleep in till late considering the fact that they had slept very late previously, but by 7.30am, the whole hostel was abuzz with activity as we prepared for the soccer match between the Central Youth and the MMUSDA Youth to be held at the adjacent Kakamega Rehabilitation School grounds. I’ll be sure to source for the photos, which were taken throughout the trip.

The game was pulsating with the visitors being two up by half time, but managing a strong come back afterwards, the hosts managed to secure a 3-3 draw that left all and sundry content. By that time it was ten and the players rushed back to the hostels for a shower and to gather belongings. This time was social time to get to interact with the MMUSDA members after which we said our goodbyes, bidding especially Chris goodbye as we made our long journey back to Nairobi at exactly 11.20am.

Our stopover was at Kericho for a breather, where hawkers struggled to sell to us tea and then at Nakuru where Zach and CJ, the trip organizers, had bought for everyone some fries and soda. Nairobi beckoned only an hour and a half away, as the streetlights and highways of the capital embraced us back to what we call home. God bless the Masinde Muliro University SDA Community for the hospitality and good will they showed us.


-End of Part Three of Three-