On June 18th, a group of seven seniors and two adults set off on their pilgrimage to Nairobi, Kenya. They stayed with Divine Providence Training Center where Kenyan pastors at Camp Chemi Chemi. Over the course of about two weeks…
If you would like to read the first part of this story, visit https://providencetrainingcenter.caretolearnintl.org/2016/08/01/worship-under-open-skies/ By the faithfulness of God, Catherine Maake and the church acquired a church plot. The Lord moved the heart of the owner of the land over…
A team of seniors in high school from Myers Park United Methodist team came in for their first visit to Kenya towards the end of June. The students all voted unanimously to go to Kenya for their “senior pilgrimage” and…
This summer has been busy and Divine Providence Training Center’s Camp Chemi Chemi has been filled with the sounds of laughter and learning more about our Kingdom building ministry. The RUMC youth team traveled over at the beginning of June…
We were so thrilled to have a team of 25 people, 16 students and nine adults, from Roswell United Methodist Church join us here at Camp Chemi Chemi at the beginning of June. The team, headed up by youth pastor…
Our trip was beyond all expectations. The magnificence of God’s creation here at Camp Chemi Chemi and the zeal of our pastors is felt each and every day as we watch the students take in all their education and offer amazing praises to our Lord. Our retreat center is blessed early each morning still under the stars with the angelic sounds of praise wafting up throughout the camp. Carole Ford would love hearing these beautiful praise songs and I cannot wait to hear her RUMC Praise Team joined in harmony with our sisters and brothers here lifting the name of our Savior.
Sally Gresham, Bill White, John Bender and Beth Cayce traveled the week of May 6th to Matassia, Kenya to stay for the first time at Divine Providence’s tent camp. The camp is named Chemi Chemi (pronounced ché´mi ché´mi) which is Swahili for fountain. We believe that is what the Divine Providence School is for the pastors – a fountain of living water.
Nov 7-17 Fred Moore, Bill White and I (Beth Cayce) went to visit the construction site of our emerging retreat center nestled high on the hills in Endo Matasia overlooking Nairobi. Like all construction projects big or small there is a commonality—the construction costs run higher than you expect, the time table expands and the subcontractors feign ignorance to past communications. The big challenge we face here is that we have a Pastor School set to begin in the new facility on Dec 4th!
