Uganda. Hello! Month 11…here it is!!
So much time has gone by since I posted a blog and I am sorry for that. All month, to be exact. But so many good things have been happening!!
Uganda has made my heart happy and my smile big.
This month my team, along with two other teams, have been partnering with a ministry called Lightforce International. It is based out of the UK with other bases in Albania and India. The structure and heart of this ministry is incredibly beautiful. I highly recommend it to any looking for a place to work with missions. Check out their website here.
We are living in a nice compound that is also hosting 16 kids who are sponsored to study at the P1 – P7 Lightforce school.
Most of this month my work was teaching Reading at that school. There’s 250ish students in the school and we all had opportunity to take part in kids ministry of all kinds, from teaching and conducting optical tests to dancing, coloring, and playing games in the evenings. These kids have captured my heart as have many others throughout the world!
There is a clinic on campus that some of our medically trained teammates helped to get organized for reopening.
Lightforce also runs a farm as attempt to build a self sustaining ministry. We’ve been here for the biannual corn harvest. Not only was the work among my favorites of the year, it also sparked many childhood memories of working in the garden and on a farm. Much of what we have eaten this month is grown on this farm. Besides shucking, de-cobbing, drying, shoveling, and bagging acres of corn, we did TONS of other physical labor; building a coal shed, building a goat pen, moving laundry lines, cleaning a warehouse, and fixing a road.
The adventure highlight of the month was an African safari!
And now, we are heading to final debrief tomorrow morning and 5 days later, flying into Boston.
In my heart there’s always been a craving for adventure. That often looks like traveling, experiencing new things and new places, sailing seas, climbing mountains, and jumping cliffs, but to me right now, that great adventure in front of me is to drink coffee with my mom at her table, hold my nephew whom I’ve only met on screen, and all the other wonders that come with reuniting with family and friends.
See ya soon!!
Edna
