What toll has the violence taken on the Adventist population in Kenya?
Right now we do not know of any Adventists who have lost their lives. It’s a little bit difficult to get information, so we cannot rule that out completely. However, in terms of church infrastructure, a night watchman’s house at [the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton] was almost burned, some faculty homes outside the university were destroyed, and one of our schools was almost burned down. The violence has affected our church members the greatest. We have many who are refugees now displaced in camps. In Eldoret, in the western part of Kenya, we have almost 300 Adventist church members worshipping together every Sabbath at one refugee camp. And we have many, many Adventists in other refugee camps, which we are visiting from time to time. How do you convince Adventists of opposing ethnicities to forgive amid such deeply rooted ethnic rivalries? Basically we have to appeal to their spiritual orientation, because we are all of the same blood through Christ. We have these ethnic differe
