Uganda, Here we come!

We are ready for two days of travel!

The Nile!

What a fun opportunity we had to take children from the Genesis School on an amazing field trip! We loaded 90 children up on the bus and headed out on the 3 hour ride to Jinja to the Nile River. Wow! I think our team was much more impressed by being on the Nile than the children. The Nile! It was amazing to ride in the boats with the tour guides who told us much about the Nile.

After the boat ride we had a picnic lunch by the Nile where monkeys soon appeared, I think in hopes of snagging a snack. The children squealed with delight as the monkeys jumped from limb to limb! An amazingly fun day!

Adventure day!

Today our team headed to see Sipi Falls and what a beautiful adventure it was!

We rose to an elevation near 7000 feet, the views were amazing! We stopped at several overlooks and were in awe of Gods creation. We then hiked through a tropical jungle to a cave behind the falls. We also hiked a different trail to view a different waterfall. We saw many coffee plants, they looked much different than what I expected. What an absolutely beautiful day!

On our way back to town we stopped at a coffee factory. Ahhh, it smelled so good!

Ladies tea

Tuesday afternoon after school we went to the church for a ladies tea, what a sweet time! When we arrived at church the church was full of ladies, who were so excited to see us. They were singing and clapping their hands. Carrie Anne came in a different car a couple of minutes after me and they danced her into the church, when in Africa.....Another lady and myself shared our testimony and gave a devotional. What a special time it was! We did a small craft with the ladies and then served them tea and African donuts. As they left just about everyone came and hugged us, such sweet, joyful ladies!

Our day at school

Today was such a fun day! We spent the day at school working with the children. We started by serving them their breakfast of porridge and a boiled egg. We then had a teacher appreciation time and gave each teacher a gift. They shared porridge and boiled eggs with us. Next, our team paired up in groups of two and rotated into the classrooms, what fun that was! I shared a lesson how God will always keep His promises. Things that were prophesied in the Old Testament, came true in the New Testament. God told us in Isaiah He would provide a savior to redeem us from our sins and that happened many hundreds of years later. I also shared with them how they can receive Christ as their personal Savior. We then did a craft with them to remind them what we had learned!

Next came lunch and after lunch we divided the children into groups of five and read storybooks to them.

What a great day! But, the fun was not over we headed back to the guesthouse for just a couple of moments before heading to a ladies tea at the church. More about that in the next post!

This sweet girl needs a sponsor to be able to continue in school.

Home visits

Today was a day that I can not adequately put into words......emotional, humbling, hard yet great! We started our day by touring the school and medical clinic, what a great ministry they have. Then we moved on to home visits. We traveled out into the villages, down paths that appeared were just a walking path yet our van turned down them. We would stop at an area where we would see a few people and within minutes the crowd would swell to over a hundred at most stops. We would start by someone from our team sharing scripture, then we would sing with them. After that we would hand out needed items, such as clothes, flip flops or veggie seeds. We would also give them candy. A lady at my church donated head bands that she made and the girls LOVED them! Especially the older girls would just glow as we told them they were beautiful! We would take their picture and show them as they do not often see what they look like. The people out of respect and appreciation, as is their culture, would get on their knees or bow to us. At our first stop as we were ready to leave two ladies came to us and each gave us a chicken. (Our ms. chickens are suppose to be dinner for us one night 😜) We stopped at quite a few stops.....the conditions are hard to put into words, often children with no clothes, yet their joy is immense! They shower us hugs, love and appreciation. I do not think anyone could come to Uganda and not completely fall in love with the people!

More from our wonderful day!

After sorting out supplies we were in the guesthouse chatting and heard some children outside. A couple of the girls grabbed some bubbles and went out to play with some of the village children. There were about five children and within a few minutes the children were laughing and soon there were about 30 children on the front lawn of the guesthouse playing. We played with bubbles, jumped rope that we made from twine and played soccer. Then we started singing some songs with them and played duck, duck, goose. It was such a fun evening interacting with the local children.

What a fun day! Tomorrow home visits in the village! Can't wait!

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