Author: Adventures

As part of our ministry here in Busia, we’ve been making hospital visits. Some of my team members love this, but for me it’s probably the most challenging thing I’ve done on this trip. The hospital is noisy, smelly, and crowded. In the wards we’ve been visiting, beds are lined up in big rooms with two see-through dividers, and about twelve beds in every divided section. Some of the patients are surrounded by family and friends, while others have no one near them other than the next patient eight feet away. My father recently spent several weeks in the hospital, and...

This past week we held open-air crusades in the town of Ojamii. Most of the attendees were children, about 150. My favorite was a little girl who was about 3 years old. The African worship music would start playing and she would dance, with a very serious face. The first day she didn't crack a smile but she did hold my hand, so we could dance kind of together. The second day, she was holding a dirty teddy bear, and wearing a dirty little dress. I was sitting down in a chair and I called her over. She came with her dirty little bear and sat on my lap. She actually smiled when I pretended...