Shirley & Roger Brown

On Saturday, 21 Feb, we went in to Nairobi on the Daystar bus to have lunch with Roger and Shirley Brown at their home next to the Tumaini Counselling Centre. (Tumaini means hope in Kiswahili.) Shirley and their younger daughter, Hannah, picked us up at the Daystar city campus and took us to their home and centre in Karen (a suburb of Nairobi named for Karen Blixen of Out of Africa). Roger is a psychiatrist and director of the centre which is jointly operated by Africa Inland Mission (AIMCare) and Wycliffe (SIL). They provide counselling services to missionaries and missionary families from 180 mission organizations. Shirley Cadwell Brown is a graduate of the Roberts Wesleyan College nursing program, so is known to many of you. Their older daughter, Rachel, is at Taylor University in Indiana. Hannah is a high-school senior who will also be in college in the States in the fall.

As Shirley was taking us to the YaYa Centre for shopping after lunch, we met a motorcade with Kenyan President Kibaki. She quickly pulled off onto the shoulder, as did all the other cars in front of us and behind us. Shirley didn't come to a complete stop immediately and an agent in the motorcade pointed to her indicating that she should stop completely. She then turned off the engine, which is also required. This will probably be as close as we come to the President.