On Saturday morning, 3 August 2013, Paulines Publications Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya, opened its doors to a flood of intermediate school students. Two buses pulled into the parking lot precisely on time and out the doors poured ten, twenty, thirty…sixty children. Dressed in the uniform of St. Peter’s School, Juja, all the boys and girls were smiling, attentive, a little shy and very curious.
Their visit opened with a prayer, followed by a tour of the various departments of the technical apostolate: the printing presses, folding machine, sewing machine, cutting machine, audiovisual department, stock room and shipping department. A large graph helped the students see the extent to which the Word of God is being disseminated, in fact how it is “racing ahead” in different countries and on different continents. The children listened to all the explanations with wide eyes and great interest, eagerly accepting the invitation to ask questions.
The final stop of the morning was the book center, where the vast display of books and audiovisuals showed the students that it is possible to satisfy their yearning for answers to life’s many questions and offers them the chance to come in contact with different cultures. Before re-boarding the buses, the group stopped in the community chapel to sing a song, to which the sisters added the fervent prayer that each child would grow up to be an upstanding citizen.
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