I remember, and reflect on, three extraordinary Easters in 1986 (Kajiado, Kenya), 2010 (Salisbury Cathedral) and 2023 (Chesterton, Cambridge). Published first on Covenant https://covenant.livingchurch.org/2024/04/04/extraordinary-easters/ 4 April 2024 and republished with permission.

In June 1999, Joseph Galgalo and I walked 95 miles, with 22 other friends, from 'Oxford to Cambridge with a Camel', to raise funds for camel-based nomad schools in northern Kenya.

On Sun 30 June 2024, for our 25th anniversary, Faith Galgalo, Joseph's 25 year old daughter, and I with friends, will walk 9 miles from 'Kingston to Cambridge without a Camel', to raise funds for Bubisa School, one of the schools funded in 1999.

In our ninth CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe missionary work in the north of Kenya amongst the Rendille people, the use of role-play in teaching biblical studies, and our children's education.

In our eighth CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the setting up of our secretarial course and visitors from Durham University and West Germany, an Anglican International Partners in Mission Consultation, and the plans for a Centre for Development Studies.

In our seventh CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the international consultation of mission theologians at St Andrew's Institute and the consecration of Embu Cathedral.

Alison Kings writes our sixth CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, describing the arrival of our third daughter, Katie Esther Wambui,  the responses of Rosalind and Miriam, theological writing in the college and Graham climbing Mount Kenya.

In our fifth CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the style of teaching, the different students in the college and Rosalind's friendship with Ciru.

In our fourth CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe my stay over Easter with a Maasai student and his family in Maasailand, south of Nairobi.

In our third CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe an extraordinary Confirmation Service in the semi-arid area of Epinding.

In our second CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe the 75th anniversary celebration of the gospel coming to Kabare in 1910.

In our first CMS Link Letter from Kabare, Kenya, I describe our first impressions of living in the fertile foothills of Mount Kenya at 6,000 feet.

When we were on leave in the UK for six months (Aug 1988 to Jan 1989), between our two terms of service with CMS at Kabare in Kenya, Harry Moore, the General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, asked me to write the CMS Newsletter for July/August 1989. Since only General Secretaries wrote the Newsletter, this was entitled an Occasional Paper.

From Mon 22 June to Sun 27 June 1999, Joseph Galgalo and I walked with 24 others from Oxford to Cambridge with a Camel to raise money for six primary schools in Northern Kenya. We walked to celebrate 200 years of the Church Mission Society (founded 1799) and in memory of Bishop Andrew Adano, who founded the schools. For a 5 minute film about the Camel Walk, click here.

Norman Winter, a BBC Radio 4 producer, asked me present three Radio 4 short programmes in July 1996 on my three favourite books the Henry Martyn Library. This is my script of the third one, on Archbishop David Gitari's book, In Season and Out of Season: Sermons to a Nation (Oxford: Regnum, 1996). It was broadcast on 26 July 1996.

In preparation for the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society in 1999, I was asked to write the CMS News-Letter for June, July and Aug 1998. It is called an Occasional Paper since only General Secretaries of CMS write the News-Letter.