Africa. My home for the last three months, since mid-November. Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. It’s definitely been different than anything else I’ve experienced before.
Here’s a recap of the last three months in numbers…
3…times flipping over in class 5 rapids while rafting the Nile
4…hot showers
teammates who had Typhoid all at the same time in Uganda. Three of them also had
Malaria. No fun.
5…the most people I’ve seen on a motorcycle at one time.
people on The A-Team, my team in Uganda
7…people on team Jubilation, my team for the months of Kenya and Rwanda
the time in the morning my entire team worked out six days a week in Uganda (when
they weren’t sick!)
squad mates baptized in a bathtub in Kenya
8…kinds of new animals I’ve seen: rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, antelope, warthogs, ostriches,
and flamingoes
10…hour bus ride from Rwanda to Uganda. It actually arrived an hour early. That’s a first!
13.1…miles that I’ve been preparing to run for a couple weeks. Thailand Half marathon here I
come
15…cows living across the street from us in Uganda who woke us up early every
morning
26…blogs I’ve written. Let’s just say I’ve had a lot of downtime…
27…hours on two buses from Kenya to Rwanda
30…people on X Squad after several people had to leave for various reasons
53…verses I’ve memorized
94…kids in the class I was teaching in a Ugandan school
96…Kenyan shillings = one dollar
131…people fed a Christmas dinner at our church in Kenya
145…foot bungee jump backwards into the Nile River
179…kids we bought books and pencils for at our pastor’s school in Uganda
595…Rwandan francs = one dollar
2500…Ugandan shillings = one dollar
6,913…times I’ve been called a muzungu (white person). Well, ok I didn’t really keep track,
but it was a lot!
These last two weeks have been different as most of my team has been sick in bed for over a week with Malaria and Typhoid. We had to leave ministry a couple days early to go to a better doctor in the city. We’ve been in a hostel here for the last four days. After resting they’re back to normal and we’re ready to head to Thailand!
Our flight leaves Africa tonight. We fly to Bangkok, Thailand, where my team will be working with DtonNaam Ministries, reaching out to the lady-boys (men who dress as and consider themselves women) in the red light district of the city.
Your prayers are greatly appreciated as we are transitioning to another country and working at this next ministry, as always. THANK YOU to all of you who pray constantly and send encouraging words. The world is being changed through you because of this.
