Author: Adventures

Wednesday 20 June 2012 Mbarara, Uganda Ugandi (Hello) Only two more days till we are off to Kenya. The Lord has truly showed up in Mbarara and his love continues to touch the hearts of so many. My love for Africa grows stronger everyday I am here and the people capture my heart more and more. Being here has truly been a blessing, we have been well taken care of by a local pastor here, pastor Solomon who, let me tell you, is the funniest ugandan man you will ever meet. A few running jokes here is that he is going to marry us off for herds of cows, now, by no means would I take his offer but...

My first blog was about how God knows us personally. During our first hospital visit God expressed to me, in another way, how He knows. To see the conditions and the people in the hospital was hard. Our group visited the women’s ward, the children’s ward, and the ICU. Great things did happen: a women who hadn’t felt her arm in over two years was able to move her fingers for the first time in those two years. God is a miracle worker!!! The difficulties: People with minor illnesses or injuries and people who are days, or even minutes, from death are all in the same room. I...

“We are marching, marching we are marching, marching we are marching in the light of God.” I’ve heard that song a thousand times before in my life. My mother lived in Swaziland for a couple of years before I was born, and I grew up singing that song before I even realized Swaziland was a real place. In the visits I’ve been privileged to make to Swaziland, that song has always been a constant. Everyone there knows it and likes to sing it. Coming into this trip, I was really making a concentrated effort not to draw imagined similarities between Uganda and...