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Reconciliation in Trans Mara: The Odyssey of a Family
Reconciliation in Trans Mara: The Odyssey of a Family
Reconciliation in Trans Mara: The Odyssey of a Family
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Accompanied by their two youngest teenage daughters, the author and his companion leave behind a comfortable life in Canada and move to Kenya. They make their home in Ogwedhi, a village on the boundary between South Nyanza and the Trans Mara Region of Rift Valley Province.
Where a bloody massacre had left hatred and distrust between the Maasai and their Luo and Kisii neighbors, this couple takes up the challenge of directing a comprehensive project designed to bring peace and reconciliation through wholistic community development.
Their successful efforts at bringing together former “enemy” tribes comes at a personal cost to their own family. Separated, feeling abandoned, their two eldest daughters must remain in college in the USA, while the two younger ones face the loneliness of being confined to boarding at the Rift Valley Academy.
This story is unusual in that this missionary intervention was initiated by the local Maasai leadership, not a foreign “sending” agency. The nomadic Maasai elders invited the Kenya Mennonite neighbors to recruit a missionary to assist them in leaving their nomadic way of life and adapting to more modern sedentary living. The elders specified five objectives for their project: “We want primary schools for our children, a clinic for our sick, a church for our spiritual needs, animal husbandry to improve our cattle, and agricultural development since we will become farmers.”
The Ogwedhi-Sigawa Community Development Project (OSP) became a model for such intervention. The lasting result was a radical transformation of the community, including the planting of an indigenous Maasai church.
The project was launched in 1979. The events of this story took place from 1985 to 1991.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherWestBow Press
Release dateDec 6, 2023
ISBN9798385012503
Reconciliation in Trans Mara: The Odyssey of a Family
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Carl E. Hansen

The second son of Jens and Elizabeth Hansen, Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada; holds a BA degree (1965) from Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary (M.Div., 1971) in Indiana, and Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1985) in California. He was united in marriage to Vera Dorothy King in 1964. Together they served as missionaries in eastern Africa for more than thirty-two years. Carl served as high school teacher and then as director of a rural development project in Ethiopia from 1967 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, Carl served as pastor in Alberta, Canada. They moved back to Africa in 1985, giving direction to a rural community development project in western Kenya, then teaching at the Daystar University in Nairobi until 1995. In January 1996, they returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church in establishing its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, Virginia in 2011. Carl and Vera raised four daughters and are grandparents to nine grandchildren and great grandparents to six great grandchildren.

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