Blackrose Apartments ... Where We Lived, Conducted our Discussion Groups, Entertained, Had One-on-one Meetings, Welcomed MCC Region 4, Conducted an Active Listening Dialogue with a local clergy representative, and opperated as a general LGBT Center for four weeks. Nairobi, Kenya. (We lived here for $29.00 per day! -- rent per month; two bedroom apartment with TV and wireless connection included)
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Gay and Christian in KENYA, UGANDA, TANZANIA, RWANDA AND BURUNDI
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"I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in also." John 10:16
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For four weeks we held discussion groups,
met one-on-one, solicited "unfriendly"
clergy, found straight allies, created a PFAG
and an Other Sheep East Africa chapter,
spoke live from a radio studio, met LGBT
activists, and distributed liturature. It was
non stop -- rewarding and fun.
Unfortunately, you will not see the winsome
faces and smiles, the meditative looks, the
laughter and facial expressions of affection
and thanks; some gays can be open and they
are pictured here along with some straight
friends.
Above: One of our discussion group meetings held in our apartment at Blackrose Apartment, Nairobi, Kenya
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Above: Felix, Larry and Jose
Right: Jose recording the stories of gay Kenyan Christians
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Above: Jose logging
the recorded stories.
Left:
Emmanuel
Kamau's
mother,
attending
the PFLAG
meeting.
Above: News reporter who took
interest in Other Sheep and the
liturature we distributed.
Above: Jose with contact
person of a local orphanage,
St. Francis, to which we
delivered beenie dolls from a
local Episcapol Church of
Westchester, NY.
The Anglican church
through which we
connected with a
pro-gay Anglican
minister.
Article reporting
on our live radio
broadcast the
day before.
We brought 100 copies The Children Are Free
with us from the States, compliments of
JesusMCC
"My dad is a pastor
and his church is
right here -- in this
part of Kenya"
Pasta anyone? One of our dinner parties.
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Right: Photo copies being made of The Blue Book for our PFLAG meeting.
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Meeting
with a
GALCK
activist
Left:
Jose
leading a
discussion
group
Left and below:
Steve and Jose with Mary, director of St.
Francis orphanage, at our pool, Blackrose
Apartments.
Right: PFLAG leader, Felix.
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Jose at
our
detailed
wall
map of
East
Africa
Right: Steve teaches The Bible and Homosexuality as three look on.
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Below Photos:
Nairobi Baptist Church where Steve and Jose visited on two different Sundays and introduced themselves and Other Sheep to the pastor. The pastor wrote a statement on homosexaulity and provided it to the congragation as an insert in the Sunday bulliten.
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Above:
Living room window, left;
dining room window, right.
Not pictured: bedroom
window left of living room
window.
Pool: It was too cold to really enjoy
the pool. We only swam two or three
times! It was their winter.
Temperatures were in the low 70s in
Nairobi. (Jose's expression is This
is cold !)
Blackrose Apartments,
Nairobi, Kenya
VISIT Steve and Jose! Visit the Other Sheep web site of the Executive Director, Steve Parelli (at right in photo), and his partner Jose Ortiz.
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Meet us under the acacia tree
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This web page was constructed September 4, 2007 Visits made to this web page since September 2007
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