We have finally been able to bring our new vehicle home which is a 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser. Here in Kenya the prices to purchase a vehicle are so much higher than in the States. You also have to take into consideration when you buy a used car that it has spent a lot of timing driving on the Kenyan roads which are filled with potholes and even have parts where you can see the many large trucks that have driven because there are indentations where their two wheels have gone by. There are many roads that are completly dirt- or rocks rather so there is a lot of wear and tear when you drive. There is one way to ensure that you buy a car that is in good shape and that is if you get one right from the ship, from Japan. In Japan they are not allowed to keep a car that is older than 8 years so they will ship them off to other countries. We looked into this and there was one car we were considering, which was a but we just had some reservations about it. For one to drive something so new here you could be sending the message "Come highjack me!" I have heard several stories of highjacking and would definetly like to avoid this if at all possible. Secondly this car only could hold 5 people. We are now a family of 4 so that means we could only have 1 other person travel with us. Jason and I are the field supervisors for our college. Right now we are in charge of 8 students and in January 9 more students have been approved to come. These students are here for 16 month intervals and when we get out to Garissa we are planning on taking lots of trips to the bush to do ministry outreaches. A car that holds 5 people would not cut it for us. We will not only be carrying students and other people but there are times we will be buying goats, chickens, charcoal and other things out in the bush where it is a whole cheaper so a vehicle with a lot of space is very much needed.
We were able to buy a 9 passenger Land Cruiser from IAS which is International Aid Sweden. In the Land Cruiser there is a log book of all the different places it has traveled to bringing aid to people. To me this is its "testimony". I am looking foward to the other kinds of aid and ministry it will bring now that we are the owners. I am really expecting big things! Stay tuned to see where we go and what we will see in our Land Cruiser
2 comments:
yeah ! I am so excited for you guys! I love you - and I love hearing about what you are doing!
Becca.. you probably are not required to use carseats there are you?
When we were small we had very many children riding in the car at one time. No carseats, and we were all piled in.
It was considered safe because there was so little traffic back then.
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