Our day began with a visit from "Abby." He's one of our Ugandan friends who has helped us to relocate orphans who have been in undesirable situations. Abby came to bring 2 of our little friends to the house for a visit. The 2 boys are siblings of a child who was adopted as a result of an ekissa mission trip last year. The boys are handsome and healthy. Abby's doing a great job caring for them and they're being very successful in school.
While Abby was with us, we had a meeting regarding the status of Mercy orphanage, as he used to work there and remains active in the lives of the children who reside there. As I mentioned earlier, I can't get into details at this time on the blog; however, God is moving mightily and we are greatly encouraged about the future.
Jack's day started at 5:15 am as he and Pastor Peter traveled to Kampala for a meeting. An organization called Partnership Worldwide had its regional director for business development here in Uganda for some unrelated meetings and Jack was able to get on his itinerary. The 2 of them met with this individual to explore the possibility of establishing a business, as a mission component to ARM'S economic development model, as well as researching their success stories, in an effort to duplicate them in Bweya. Jack feels this was a productive meeting and ekissa will follow up to explore the possibilities of a future relationship.
Around mid-day we went shopping at the market to purchase crafts, etc. to bring home AND we visited the "New York Pizza" restaurant. The pizza was consumed as if we hadn't eaten in 5 days! Lethargy settled in as fast as a "New York minute" and we headed back to our compound, where the power as been out for the last 24 hours. (Welcome to Uganda!!!)
Our schedule has been rather constant so it's been nice to slow down to discuss & digest the things we've seen, experienced and done. At the moment, I'm sitting in the middle of the dinning room table, due to the lizard that Jack & Neel failed to capture!!!!!! I had been sitting on the couch writing the blog when Jack hollered for me to jump up. A 5 inch lizard was running up the wall behind my head!!! Yes, I promptly jumped up and screamed "like a girl." UGH!!! I HATE those things! Let me just say, I am so thankful for a mosquito net to sleep under at night.
Well, it's time for dinner, so I'll close. Sorry that yesterday's blog was posted late...(the power's been out).
Blessings,
Sarah
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