The visiting team would also relay information to the WCC about how best they could support the Kenyan churches' efforts to fulfil its role of restoring peace and reconciliation to a society still in the midst of an anarchy. The visit is being hosted by the National Council of Churches in Kenya.
Rev. Kobia, himself a Kenya, said the destruction caused by the political dispute in the recent presidential election between the two major parties had rendered the country into a place he could hardly recognise.
"Current scenes of violence and destruction portray a country that one would hardly recognize as Kenya", said Dr. Kobia.
Churches in Kenya are struggling to work for peace and reconciliation amidst a wave of post electoral violence along ethnic lines which has killed more than 700 people and obliged some 250,000 people to flee their homes since the beginning of the year.
The team is aimed at expressing the solidarity of churches worldwide with the Kenyan churches at this time. The visiting team would also learn how to support Kenyan churches' efforts to fulfil the role of restoring peace and reconciliation in the country. The visit is being hosted by the National Council of Churches in Kenya.
Current scenes of violence and destruction "portray a country that one would hardly recognize as Kenya", says WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia, who is himself a Kenyan. While expressing hope that Kenya "will overcome the prevailing situation and that the churches will play an important part in speeding up that time", Kobia sees the visit as "a way of saying that we feel part of the same family, and when and where any part of the family hurts, we hurt with them".