Guests

It has been an amazing week for guests. On Wednesday there was an unexpected visit from an old science friend who is also an eminent international scientists who is one of the world experts on the coral reefs here in Kenya. I've known him since my time in Maldives and read all his papers. So it was great to be in the water together.

Then in the course of sussing out a new couple who were here, I realized that we had lots of interaction together in England, but never met. I recently submitted a small book for publication on a Christian response to marine conservation and he was on the committee that approved it for publication. He is a Christian Ethics professor at Cambridge and so we had loads of great conversations and we are hoping to work together on a paper next year looking at an ocean and ethics related issue that we can submit to a theological journal.

Then I showed up at lunch yesterday and one of my A Rocha UK colleagues was standing in the queue for lunch! She had decided just a few weeks ago to come to Kenya and neither of us knew the other were here. We have done fun projects before like doing a moth trapping event at the church and then organising the church service the next morning using the verse about "where moth and rust destroy - where your treasure is there will your heart be also." We used the moths in the service and played bat calls. Fantastic to relate the scripture to God's creation. So we went out snorkeling.

Well off to a meeting and wondering who will show up next.