Henry Visits Home After 39Years
NB: This is the correct version as opposed to that of the newsletter that reads 35years.

After thirty-nine years, Bishop Henry Mulandi had the privilege of visiting Lokori, a small village in Turkana where he lived with his stepbrother. It was between 1965 and 1967 when young Henry moved to Turkana as a cook boy for his missionary brother who doubled as a teacher.

He was a student in a nearby school called Lokori Mixed School, where he attended classes three and left in class five. The school, he notes, is now more developed and Henry was filled with delight as the current head teacher showed him around the school and memories just flooded him as he signed the school book as an ‘old boy’.

At the entrance of Lokori mixed School stood a small stoned house on top of a small hill. This, Bishop informs, is the house he and his brother lived in, “The roof and the doors of the house are gone, however, and some of the walls are beginning to give way to old age,” he notes.

Looking around, he notes that the old AIM mission station near the Kerio River is still there. He talks of a Western Missionary Anderson who established a school, a mission hospital and a church, “but he went back to his home and now most of these buildings he put up are falling down,” he observes. The greatest impact the western missionaries did in Lokori area, he says, is training the local people.

Henry had a short talk with the curious Lokori children who gathered around him with amusement finding it hard to believe that such a man once lived among them. The young faces seemed to take in everything that Bishop said to them as he advised them to remain obedient to God and work hard to be successful in the future. “It brings a lot of memories- although it’s thirty-nine years ago,” Henry comments standing in front of the three-roomed house he once called home.

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