After a 12-hour bus ride through tea fields of bright green,
rice fields of splendid green, and sugar cane fields of fun wild green, we
arrived in Kampala, Uganda! This city is interesting because it has all this
western influence in their infrastructure that makes it incredibly different
than Kenya, (we even saw a Dominoes Pizza!) but it is still totally African. You
know some people said they were culture shocked whereas I was whipping my head
around left to right looking for the Target (in my dreams!)
Transformers and Hepzibah leave in the morning for Gulu. We
hear it’s another 12-hour bus ride there, fun. J We will not have Internet nor electricity again this
month. Gulu has a large IDP camp that the government will no longer be
supporting come April. One of our main ministries will be creating community in
the villages from where the people fled. Our hope is to encourage more people
to return to their homes. We are told that the spiritual climate of this place
is incredibly dark. Feelings of
despair, loneliness, and the atrocities of war are heavy in the air. As we will
not have communication with our encouraging folks back home, I ask that you
please keep our two teams in constant prayer.
On the 8th: Lovely Mary Elizabeth, I will be thanking
the Lord for your birth!
On the 13th: I will be wishing that I could tightly
hug my beloved Bryanna on her birthday!
I continue to embrace this crazy adventure the Lord has me
on. Every day without fail I think, This is my life?! I am learning and re learning
lessons I’m sure I wont fully grasp til I’m 80, but I trudge on! Thank you for
your prayers.
Love!
PS: At the end of January we will be White Water Rafting
down the Nile!!! AAAH!! J
It’s supposed to have amazing rapids, and
it’s the Nile! I thought I’d share that fun detail!.
