Uganda has a way of putting people in their place, especially regarding attitudes. There is not a day that goes by without the guilt of feeling like you've complained too much, or weren't thankful enough for the people that served you, and so on. Comparision is so easy, and in a sense, difficult to avoid here. Our team has been so bad about comparing food from Uganda to food back home. We're constantly saying "Oh I miss this…", "Have you had this", or "Oh I really wish/hope I could have some of that right now." It got so bad, that we had to...

Matthew 18:3 “I tell you the truth, unless you become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”             I have never been more captivated by this verse than I am now, and I owe that to the children of Fountain Primary School. We usually go there twice a week and every time we’ve been they have absolutely blown me away by their faith and praise. These are children that have been orphaned, kidnapped, or have seen horrible effects of a civil war, yet they praise God with all that they have every...

Dear bloggies- I know you already know I'm the funniest person alive, but I'll bet you didn't know my teammates are all tied for second funniest person alive. That being said, there is no lack of laughter and comic relief among the nine of us. Sometimes our comic relief comes from tripping over feet, making faces at each other, or random, smart remarks; we always have something to laugh at. One of the funnier (and definitely the most problematic) things occured this Sunday morning. As we all proceeded to pile into the van on our way to another branch of Victory Outreach...

  I fell in love with a little girl our first day of unofficial ministry. I've seen her twice, and still don't know her name because she is so shy she barely makes any noise. Fountain Primary School was where my heart was first stolen. We pulled up in our "14 passenger van" that might fit 7 comfortably. The children started running up yelling "Muzungu" (white person). But as we got out they shyed back a little. So we let them know we are friends and greeted them. We were shown around the school some before being led into a class room. The kids...

Everything is super fun in Uganda. At training camp, every morning we had this thing called “super fun morning time” where we would do super fun things like dance routines to help wake us up. Our team rocked at it, so of course we incorporated the term into just about everything we’ve been doing here in Uganda. Things like “super fun nap time”, “super fun story time”, “super fun Jesus time”, “super fun dart game” and so on.   (Super fun dart game plays a big part in this so let me explain what that is. The dart game is...

Today after a morning building a well, our team went throughout the village of Kyampisi doing evangilism. Four of us and a translator headed a mile or so down the dirt road and felt that we should go to the two locals bars and talk to people there. The first bar we went to had no customers, just one lady working, waiting for people to come. As a team we decided to leave. I was instantly convicted and reminded of the parable of the lost coin. In this parable, a woman rejoices over finding one lost coin, in the same way that angels rejoice when one person becomes a Christian. Instead of...