The visiting team is being sent by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to find out how the international fellowship of churches can best support Kenyan churches and their peace and reconciliation efforts.
The “Living Letters” visit, from January 30 to February 3, is part of the WCC’s Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010) and is being hosted by the National Council of Churches in Kenya.
Delegates include Mr Graham Gerald McGeoch, ministerial candidate of the Church of Scotland and UK member of the WCC central and executive committees.
WCC General Secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, who is a Kenyan, said the violence and destruction in his homeland “portray a country that one would hardly recognise as Kenya”.
Kobia expressed hope that Kenya “will overcome the prevailing situation and that the churches will play an important part in speeding up that time”. He also hoped the visit would reassure Kenyan churches “that we feel part of the same family, and when and where any part of the family hurts, we hurt with them”.
The visit will include meetings with Kenyan religious leaders – Christian and of other faiths, government officials and opposition leaders, churches, local communities and civil society organisations in Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nakuru and Kakamega.
