The Kenyan Prayer Train.

Kikuyu to Nairobi is about an hour's drive on the morning commute.

The train is packed with rich and poor every day on their way to work.

But this is a ride with a difference; a big difference.

The lead coach on this commute is called the "prayer and praise coach."

For the whole hour's trip there is daily worship and praise being conducted by business man Joseph Tiphy Gachui and his wife, Helen Wangui Tiphy.

The passengers don't mind been preached to or prayed for. In fact, they expect it and many are the wonderful testimonies of touched hearts and transformed lives that have resulted from the praise coach.

You may wonder how permission was ever given to hold mobile church on the Kenyan railways . The answer is very simple. It was asked for by christians who wanted to make a difference in their ethnically divided and violent land and it was granted by the government who recognized that Christ was the answer.

Now wouldn't it be wonderful if that could happen on your local "Go-Train". I would gladly park my car for a daily trip to Toronto if there was a Praise and Prayer Coach attached.

Jubilate.

Ian

Death at the Cathedral,

The irony of it all. Today another death in Paris. This time it was the terrorist who came to a swift end, on the steps of Notre Dame cathedral. In the name Allah he had attacked a policeman with a hammer and was promptly shot dead by another officer.

Bad, bad, bad as usual but what went on in the cathedral immediately afterwards is worthy of consideration.

The place was packed with tourists who were ordered to sit down in the pews and PUT THEIR HANDS IN THE AIR.

Thereby the irony.

I am used to being in churches where the whole congregation worships the Lord with uplifted hands but NOT by any command of the police.

But today from Notre Dame comes this amazing photo of a congregation of tourists all with upraised hands. 

At first glance I thought that they may have all been giving praise to God for their own deliverance: and what better place to do it. In a house of God.

But appearances can be deceptive. The truth was that they were ordered to put their hands in the air to show that were not carrying lethal weapons.

Ah well. By one means or another God did have a thousand or so people in a posture of worship in His house.

Maybe, just maybe, a few of them will be finding their way to a church in the next few days to voluntarily thank Him that they are still alive on the planet.

Jubilate.

Ian