Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving from Uganda!!

What an amazing last day with the kids at school!!  I wish that everyone could come here to experience the LOVE and JOY that these people have to GIVE!  We have received so much more than we have received!!  We even had the gift of having turkey today for lunch!  The school provided us with Thanksgiving dinner!
The baby's LOVE Jessica! 

Mimi meeting Deborah!

Reticia

Firister

Safinah

Grace

Isabel & Frolence

Grant & Benitah

Teacher Gilbert & his beautiful bride 



Church 

Martin & Grace


Pastor Joseph & family 

Marvin & Zach 

Isabel & Esther

Zach, Jen & Michael 

Michael joining the fun!

Gran & Mimi

A special feast with Esther's family 

Vincent's Aunt "mom" who raised him



Afizu

Mable 

Jiovoni

Monday, November 23, 2015

Worship, welcomes, and fun!

Pictures later... internet connections have been too slow.

Sunday morning we worshiped at Pastor Joseph's church.  It was a beautiful expression of God's love and faithfulness to this community!  We felt so welcomed and extremely blessed by the members of the congregation!  The music was as if we were in heaven and we are all still singing the songs in our heads!

We later were greeted and welcomed to Esther's house.  It was so wonderful for our family to meet the Namaganda family and we loved our afternoon with them!  They fed us a very special meal in their home.

Monday was spent at school and many of the sponsored children were able to receive their gifts from sponsors!  I wish you could have seen their smiles!!  I really enjoyed sharing stories about who their sponsor families were with them!  What a treat and you have made such a wonderful day for these kids!!!

Until later....
Jen

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Most amazing welcomes ever!!!





You will never receive a greater welcome than from these friends!!  We are so thrilled spend time with them.  Tears of joy fell from all of our faces as we turned the corner and saw children cheering and welcoming us with great enthusiasm.  Hugs, high fives and smiles galore!  Singing and dancing and introductions all around!  Grant's hello included telling the kids how "being with them brings him so much joy!"  We all feel the same way. 

Teacher training for new materials, library and curriculum use and community water training filled this day. Along with lots of play time with boarding kids and building stronger friendships too!  LOVE being with them! 









Meeting sponsor child, Deborah!  JOY!


Sunday, November 15, 2015

Ready to see our Friends

We are so thankful for all of the provisions that have been made to make it possible to visit our friends!  In 2 years God has done so much and we are excited to see all of the fruit.  We are blessed more than we could possibly bless, but we are thrilled that we will be able to bring the start of a library with us!  Lots of books for these cuties to enjoy and to expand their knowledge and imagination through non-fiction and fictional stories.  We look forward to updating you via this blog along the way.
SM Trip 2 Team