Hello, all! 

Welcome to the blog for the Duke Divinity School interns who are traveling to Kenya this summer. We are: Colleen Bookter, Mandy Haines (rising 3rd years), Tiffany Johnson and Elizabeth Murray (rising 2nd years). We are traveling to Chulaimbo, Kenya (on Lake Victoria) for a 7 week immersion experience. We are excited to be in community with the people there and see how God is working in their lives... and in ours! 

The total length of our internship is 10 weeks, so 3 of those weeks will be spent in Indianapolis, IN where we will be with 2 churches there. The churches are North United Methodist Church and Northminster Presbyterian Church. Colleen and myself (Elizabeth) are associated with North UMC while Tiffany and Mandy are with Northminster-- but we are all working together. These churches in addition to many other faith organizations collectively make up the Global Interfaith Partnership, which has developed the Umoja Project. 

We have been in Indy for a few days and we'll head to Kenya on Sunday. Upon our arrival back in the States, we will spend another 2 weeks back at our respective churches debriefing, sharing our experience, and planning a worship service.

We are very excited about our trip and are eager to get there, yet we are enjoying meeting everyone on the US side of the operations. 

Internet will be somewhat available but we all will post when able!

-Elizabeth