Hi there friends and family! Oonano Moonoo, (I see a white person!) has become my most-heard phrase, haha! This may be brief but well worth the read J So, after serving at the church, we started walking back to the place we’re staying and one of our members fell down. An elderly man who was missing an arm with the other crippled tried helping her up and was giving us tips on how to clean her scrape. After helping us, he continued to walk with us and we all started to get a little weirded out because he seemed a little out of it. But just when things would seem awkward, he would make...

HEY EVERYBODY!! Sorry it has taken me so long to blog! It is so crazy to think i have only been gone for two weeks because so much has happened in such a short amount of time! I dont even know where to begin to tell the stories! Uganda truly is the pearl of Africa! The people here are so beautiful and everyone is just so welcoming to us! After spending a few days in Kampala where we met a young girl Alice who came up to ask and asked us if we were born agains and then proceeded to ask us to help her know Jesus. We were all so amazed at God for bringing her to us and for her courage to...

Africa. Uganda. Lira. this place has already stolen my heart. as some of the only white people in town, we can hardly walk anywhere without stares, people pointing and shouts of "mzungu" which means "foreigner" or "white person" in their langauage. we take the opportunity to smile and wave at these people and utalize the few words in their language that we know to send a friendly greeting to them. when walking on the roads that are more outside of town we gather a group of children trailing behind us. the brave ones will come up and hold our hands as we walk...

8 hours. Amsterdam. 5 hour lay-over. 8 hours. Uganda. 2 hour bus ride to Kampala from Entebbe. 1 and 1/2 days in Kampala. By the end of the first day, we had met Alice.  We were all sitting in a circle outside our hostel talking about life when she came to us to ask us about Jesus. 2 hours later. She committed her life to Jesus. Our time in Kampala was filled with adventuring around the city. Playing and dancing with street children. Learning that everywhere we go, we get pointed at and called, "Mzungu! Mzungu!", which means foreigner. Using squatties!! (By the way, they are...

These last few days have been amazing. It’s astonishing how easily you can fall into a culture that is so hospitable. I guess I imagined that  the people here would be upset with “mzungus”, after all, we are responsible for a lot of their current problems. But they are so willing to forgive. Every face I have seen has met me with a smile, every body with a hand stretched out to greet me. The joy of these people has astonished me. Our team has spent a lot of time getting to know each other in the past few days, and I mean REALLY getting to know each other....

We finally made it!!! Our journey started out in kampala, we arrived at about 1 in the morning and crashed after our many hours of travel time. We woke up the next morning and were waiting to have a meeting and some of us were just sitting in a circle around our rooms and a girl named Alice walked over and said "Are you born agains, because I want to accept Jesus in my life", it took us a minute to respond because all we could do was smile in disbeleif that the first time we share the gospel with someone was her coming right up and asking us to help her and tell her about our...