Thursday, December 18, 2008

Kalenjin Circumcision & Initiation

hello,

the month of December is always like our summer here in Kericho, Kenya, as the rains stop for a few weeks.the month of December has also become a time for a long time now, that my people group,(the Kalenjin) were involved in circumcision of the boys. I'm told that in some other countries,circumcision is done when the baby boys are 8 days old or so. in our communities, we circumcise when the boys are between 10-12 years and they are also given lots [of teaching] of life lessons.



as a church we have used the ritual time of circumcision to "meet the people where they are. in our nearby communities we have over 100 boys and we hope we can reach all of them for Christ before they graduate after 30 days of seclusion in the bush.
u can read more about circumcision in the following. i was reading through some of them myself and these articles give the pros and cons concerning circumcision. just know that true circumcision is that of the HEART.

enjoy reading
http://www.kalenjin.net/newsite/content/view/678/234/
http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/glass2/
http://www.kenyarunners.com/pages/167371/index.htm


God bless.
Jonah
Note: For some reason the first link does not appear to be working at the moment. I'm leaving it up as it was working when the post was uploaded and hopefully will become active again. The other links appear to be working fine.

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