Dear Friends of Care of Creation,

Kenya forces plan changes

If you are following the news, you are aware that after a couple of weeks of declining violence things have erupted again last weekend all across Kenya. What started as a dispute over elections now appears to be all out ethnic war between various tribal groups. Roads are blocked, trucks are being burned, buses are being stopped to remove individuals of different tribal backgrounds. The effects are being felt far beyond Kenya, since the port at Mombasa supplies much of what is needed for all of East Africa. Prices in Sudan have gone up 5 fold, and there are 18,000 shipping containers stuck in Mombasa because they can’t be moved on either the railway (which has been destroyed in several places) or the roads. Brackenhurst Conference Center, where our staff live and which is the home base for our project activities, was the subject of threats one nighyt this week – though we thank God that the night passed without incident.