Back in Uganda 2012

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted.

Josh and Josh at the football pitch talking with the youth

I had a surprise for my return trip. Two young men from the Proctorville, OH area decided to come back with me. They are both affiliated with Sanctuary of Grace church. They were both named Josh so that helped us here with their names.

They did ministry here in Jinja with a baby orphanage and a youth house. Both ministries are with young men, one who had been a part of our orphanage (Good Shepherd's Fold) and the other one working with former GOI missionary Pat Mendoza. After we all got our internal clocks changed we head to Northern Uganda to Moyo District.

The team eating dinner in Gulu

We spent 5 days in Moyo. Josh and Josh helped me to fulfill a promise to the youth of Moyo that I would help them with some training and other skills as soon as the CWWC was up and running. Josh and Josh along with myself and Gabriel Luzira were able to reach the Baptist youth, the Catholic youth and the youth of Moyo District in general. I am very excited to see what the Lord is going to do now that we have plowed this ground.

On the road to Moyo

The weather in Uganda is not like in the US. I have been climatised to live in the US for the last 7 months and 22 days and now it is hot and dry in Uganda. The travel to Moyo is 4 hours on a marmum road which has large tractor trailers traveling over it creating huge clouds of dust. I had forgotten about the dust. My AC was not working and I didn't bring my dust mask. Hence I got a sinus infection. I was down for a week. Re-entry has been really slow for me this time. I am much better and trying to get the house and office in order.

The end of January 29 - 3 February we had our 8th week of class for CWWC Moyo. The women did a great job with the Chronical Bible Storying. I had them divided into 3 groups of 10+ women (43 are graduating). They choose one story from 3 different Bible stories. They were to preform a drama from the Bible story. It went really well. Since it is still dry season we had a real water problem at DFI were we teach. The Local Government helped up with a tank and a tractor to transport it from the river to DFI. We still used my car to haul drinking water.

Some of you may have seen my Face Book post about my adventure this past Sunday Feb 19 2012. I was walking to church. I decided to put closed toed shoes on. I hadn't warned them in a while. They were a little tight but I thought oh well it will be ok. As I turned the corner on the way to the hospital my shoes felt loose but I still thought that was ok. The as I got to the half way point I looked down and I saw my toes! What to do half way to church half way from home. I got on a motorcycle boda and went on to church with my shoes in my hand. A little girl at church came up to me during our time of greeting and asked "Auntie, why are you bear footed?" I told my shoes had broken on the walk to church. After the service I rang my friend who lives up the road from the church. She sent me a pair of shoes. Only in Africa!

Just a prayer point, my finances are really down. Would you please pray that the Lord will prick the hearts of people to give. I need $4000 for the Moyo school graduation March 16 and I am below budget for the Clinic by $750. I know that things are tight in the US but I know that I am doing what the Lord wants me to do here in Uganda.

God Bless!