MONDAY, DECEMBER 14

Monday was our last day of the tour – one school and one evening performance is all we had left before the MCF choir would start to prepare to return home to Kenya.

We started off at Collingwood school, a private school in West Vancouver.  It was the last school of the whole tour and a great one to end on!  Over 700 students packed in to the gym for the assembly.  They gave a boisterous standing ovation, with the added touch of stomping on the bleechers.  It was the perfect ending for the MCF team.  The Collingwood parents association presented MCF with a cheque and Esther’s receiving speech was so beautiful it had all of us in tears!

After the assembly, we headed into the library for a snack and some interaction.  It was great to speak with Headmaster Rodger Wright, as well as Bob Corbett, Samantha Cressey and the other teachers, staff and students.  The students were getting along great!  

They started an arm wrestling competition and even the headmaster and Mommy Esther were cheering them on! 

The arm wrestling competition escalated into a backflip competition (still in the library!), and everything was going great until Wycliffe did one too many flips and sliced his leg open on a table!  After hundreds of shows without injury it was one silly backflip in a library that took out one of our key acrobatic artists. 

A teacher took Mueni and Wycliffe to emergency for stitches and we picked them up after lunch on our way to the Capilano suspension bridge.  Many of you may wonder what a typical lunch on the road looks like for us… well, if we don’t have the luxury of having a meal prepared by the loving hands of our friends and supporters, we end up eating lunch with Wendy, Ronald, or the King!  Here, let Dennis show you….

The kids were disappointed when they found out that in fact, Ronald was not my father… sorry guys!

Like every strong young man, he held strong and insisted on participating with his team the rest of their last day.  Caution: the following photos don’t begin to show the sheer terror I felt on that bridge!!  Or how high up we were!  Or how far down the fall would be…!  Don’t ever go on a suspension bridge with a group of fearless teenagers!  eek!

Our last evening show of the whole tour was at Unity Church in Vancouver.  The weather was terrible by Vancouver standards, so many couldn’t make it out, but we had a blast anyway!  We were one man short (Wycliffe was indeed missed), but it was still a great show and the boys even threw in a few acrobatic moves I’ve never seen before!  Makes me excited for “next time”… !  Our good friend Laurenne Emond and her team of volunteers prepared a great dessert reception afterward and nearly everyon in attendance came down and joined us for a bite to eat.  Thank you Laurenne for making our last night a great one for the whole team.  We appreciated having that basement area to gather together with friends and fans one last time.

As we drove back to the hotel that night, it was hard to believe that that was it… that it was over… that we wouldn’t wake up the next morning and head off to a school for another assembly.

It was a fantastic safari and we are so thankful for all of you who made it possible!  This was a huge team effort to bring the whole team here and look after them for a couple months while they went full-out blessing Canadians all over this great contry!  Thank you for your servants hearts and willing hands.  God bless you and your families this Christmas season!

Until next time… oooaaaaaee!  (“peace”!)