Rift Valley Province

I took a journey to the worst hit areas in Kenya by this post-election violence. The roads were not safe to travel alone, so I flew. Flying over the area, you could see places that were once villages but now are blackened ash on the landscape.

People still live in fear here. (Well, we still do in Nairobi, too.) But, these people have felt the worst violence. One pastor told me that people from eight different tribes worshipped together on Sunday morning and by Sunday night, they had all turned on each other.

Many of our Baptist churches in this area were either burned or looted.

There are thousands staying in Internally Displaced camps. One camp I visited had more than 20,000 households. There are so many people there, the Red Cross is only keeping track of households and not individuals.

One of the most distressing things in this area is how things were burned. Walking down the business road with all of the store fronts, you can see two stores burned and looted, then you see a store that is just fine and still open. Then, you see a few more burned out stores, then a patch of normalacy again. It's very distressing because it shows that these burnings were picked according to tribal affiliation.

Pray for the Rift Valley Province. They live in constant fear. The pastors I drove around with would barely get out of the car -- even when I hired an armed escort.