With the CMS Summer School beginning tomorrow, concerns have eased for most of the 40 Sydney Anglicans in Kenya as the nation descended into chaos this week.

They were attending a East African missions conference 50km north-west of Nairobi.

Amongst them were four CMS NSW families and a team of 21 young people from Jannali Anglican Church who were running the children's program at the conference.

Elsewhere in Kenya news is far more grim, as riots and protests continue with allegations the Presidential election was rigged.

The BBC is reporting that more than 300 people have been killed and at least 70,000 driven from their homes across Kenya since Sunday.

Amongst them were at least 30 villagers " including 13 children " who were burned alive in a church near Eldorat in the Rift Valley.

Much of the Nairobi slums are now charred ruins.

A development project centre run by Rachel Williams, whose husband David has just been appointed to oversee CMS Australia's missionary training, was looted then burnt to the ground.

Sydney Anglicans currently safe

SydneyAnglicans.net understand that Jono and Amy Vink and their three children, as well as the Jannali team have now crossed the Tanzanian border.

The Vinks live at Musoma on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria. 

Faith Blake, Mission Personnel Secretary for CMS Australia, says she has spoken with the Radkovics who are "lying low' in their Nairobi home while the Archers say they are in a "safe house'.

"We are treating the situation seriously and monitoring the latest reports," she says, admitting that the political strife could escalate.

The Rev David Clarke, rector of the parish of St Marys, said he has received an email from his parents, Noel and Margo, who are also CMS missionaries in Nairobi.

He said their home is the middle of one of the worse trouble spots, but "fortunately they were away at the time' at the missions conference.

"There were rioters and tear gas fired in their street," he said.

Like the Radkovics, Mr Clarke said his parents are now bunkered down in their home.

"There is no food, no petrol," he said. "It’s a dangerous place to be at the best of times. I trust God and know he is sovereign."

Pray for Kenyan Christians

Mr Clarke asked that Sydney Anglicans pray for "wisdom for the Kenyan Christians' that "they can see beyond the tribal conflicts'

CMS is also asking Sydney Anglicans to pray for Kenya.

"Pray that the situation does not become civil war and pray for a peaceful solution," said Faith Blake.

Ms Blake says that missionaries "do not want us to pray for them as such but for the ordinary every day Kenyan who is suffering'.