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By Nels Parson
Rappahannock News Writer
Visiting Anglican priests serving Trinity Episcopal Church during the Rev. Jennings Hobson’s sabbatical leave have given us lessons in worldwide geography we did not anticipate. The latest arrival, the Venerable Kenneth Kahare, from Kenya is an example.
Before him, however, we learned from our visitors that South Africa is actually on the southern tip of Africa, New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere nowhere near Australia and the United Kingdom is on an Atlantic island just off northern Europe. Now we are on lesson four, Kenya.
This Kenyan tells us his East African nation is almost as large as Tbxas and has a population of 30 million. Nairobi, the capital, includes several million people. The land lies directly under the equator and features jungle, open range, beautiful lakes and high mountains.
At 17,000 feet, Mount Kenya is second only to Kilimanjaro (19,300 feet, Africa’s highest mountain). Kenya is split from north to south by the geologically famous Rift Valley and contains a part of the Great North Road from Cairo to Capetown. Its rivers flow into the Indian Ocean and its national parks are world famous.
Kenneth Kahare received his theological education at St. Paul’s School of Divinity and United Theological College in Kenya. He has served in both urban and rural areas and is currently in charge of missions
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