Part 7 of Imagine Kenya Series OFFICERS Over Chai tea and Kenyan donuts, our Crossroads team met with two Kamiti Prison officers and got educated. Abrahaim, officer of human rights, and Francis, officer of operations, said they were expecting us and wanted us to feel...
Part 6 of Imagine Kenya Series March 6 is an important date for Sarah, an inmate in Langata Prison, a maximum-security facility in Kenya. If you’re reading this and are a believer who prays, would you take a moment and write Sarah’s name down in your calendar and...
Part 5 of Imagine Kenya Series It turns out that English can sound like many different languages. New York English sounds different than Louisiana Cajan English, which sounds different than Texas English or Midwest English. In some parts of the country,...
Part 4 of Imagine Kenya Series OK, this is going to be kinda raw and unpolished, but it truly is hard to capture what I’ve been experiencing in a polished and succinct way. It’s hard to put words to what it was like to enter a Kenyan prison. It’s...
Part 3 of Imagine Kenya Series Today we met the front lines of Crossroads Kenya: the volunteer mentors. Brothers and sisters from many miles away came together in one room and we sat at a table facing them for five hours. Many of them are pastors, chaplains and...
Part 2 of Imagine Kenya Series We arrived in Kenya today and I am excited to begin telling stories about the incredible work God is doing in prisons in this country. But it might help to start with introducing you to the people I am traveling with. They all work for...