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Into Africa - Robbery in Nairobi
Written By: Wendy Saiki
Photos By: Ron Storer
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God hid Rick’s keys from the thieves.
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Serving in Kenya has included moments of peril matched with the power of God’s protection. On their first day back in the country, staying in a missions guest house in Nairobi, Rick, Audrey and two guests who had come to help for two months, found themselves looking down the barrels of four 45-caliber semi-automatic pistols.
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"They ransacked the front desk, went into the sitting room where they took money and jewelry..." |
The eight thieves appeared to be either off-duty police or military men. They ransacked the front desk, went into the sitting room where they took money and jewelry from the four of them, and made them get down on the floor. God hid Rick’s car keys from the robbers, even though they searched his pockets. Had the robbers found the keys, they would not only have been able to take the truck, but also the $4,000 Rick at the last minute had decided to leave inside it, thinking it might be safer than in the room. It was the plane ticket money owed to the travel
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Rick in front of the new school for Agape Children’s Home that was financed by Mission of Mercy.
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agent.
In addition to taking charge of the keys, God kept the gunmen from shooting them. One did cock a gun when pointing it at Rick. Shortly after the encounter, “The gun went off, probably accidentally, when they were searching upstairs in a guest’s room,” Audrey recalls. “It landed two feet from the woman’s head!”
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