After lunch Jesse toured the new hospital, which I will see while teaching at Yatta in the near future.  I met for about 90 minutes briefing Mully College Staff about the Leadership Workshop and setting up in advance the scheduling, and the resources I will need to complete the work.  I knew most of the group from last year.  It was a remarkable meeting where we were enjoying the topic of the value based leadership, seeing the results of the the work at Yatta and Ndalini on the top 5 or 5 values as measured by the Via Institute on Character Strengths.  As we were looking at the results I suddenly became aware that we had formed a team, becoming one around the values of spirituality, love, love of learning, forgiveness and creativity.  Finding myself of one accord in enthusiastic solidarity about the Mully Model leadership Workshop with these African professionals, transforming very traumatized/broken people into responsible young adults with vocations that give a dignified livelihood is most unnerving.  How I ended up so fulfilled in a place like this doing work like this is a mystery to me.  Never in anyone's wildest dreams could this have been predicted.

We headed back to MCF Ndalani where I cooled down, drank liters of water over the day.  Jesse went of in search of his friends.  Later, as the day faded and it cooled down, I met with a number of students just walking about two of whom stopped to tell me how much the workshop had motivated and helped them with a sense of self identity.  Joseph and Denis were students in the workshop.  I was moved by their testimony. and expressions of gratitude.  Joseph was a street urchin from Nairobi rescued about age 11 having lived on the streets as a child.  He ate from garbage bins and rotten discarded food wherever her could find it.  He was deeply impressed with my interest in him as a leader last year because he has so often been marginalized by the stigma of his background.  Most of the time he sees the reaction of many who outright reject him as being a hooligan.  He said the acceptance by Daddy Mully and even me Rev George gave him the boost he needed to move forward towards a positive faith filled life.  Joseph is a highly successful student of grade 12 who wants to enter into the work of development and child welfare in Kenya.  He has developed a strong sense of his own identity, is comfortable in his own skin, shows self confidence and self-efficacy.  Joseph will make a difference in the world.  How lucky am to have met him at such a profound level.  It is just like being a unit padre all over again.