An Example of How I'm Stretched to Grow

Today I was stretched AGAIN!  We traveled 60 miles, about like going from Jackson to Greenwood for my 5th grade friends following this.  We left our guesthouse at 8:45 A.M.  We got to Jinja, the city that is the source of the Nile River (yes, that's where Miriam put baby Moses, but up river a bit).  We got there at 11:30.  Our first business was meeting a young American man who is program director at Amazima Ministries.  You might enjoy going to their website.  Their founder is Katie Davis, a 22 year old young woman from Nashville.  She's in the process of ADOPTING 13 orphan GIRLS.  She homeschools 12 of them, and Jeremy's wife, Jamie homeschools the other one who is 16.  He told us to come back on a SATURDAY when we can see the children and meet with Katie. That would be a goal on another trip to Uganda. Jeremy liked what he heard that EAFC does and said,  "There's no reason to reinvent the wheel. What if we sent you funds and you could help us."  That possibility is exciting to us.

We next went to visit a 4 year old church plant.  In America you would find it difficult to see very highly educated people attending a church that looks like this one.  It may be when I get home before I can include pictures of this meeting place, but I hope you can remember this description and understand a little better our surroundings.  What we found, however, was that the pastor and 10 young people we met with were very impressive.  Their church vision is to equip their members to carry the gospel to the nations.  They long for education, and they clapped when they found out that we want to partner with churches like this.  Two years ago we met Paul, one of these church members.  He has been calling James, our country coordinator about once a month for 2 years now.  Yesterday he traveled from Jinja to meet us in Kampala.  When we found out that we would be in Jinja today, he got his pastor and others together for this meeting.  We were amazed at the interest with the short notice.

After lunch we visited Alpha and Omega Seminary, a college that trains pastors mostly from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.  I think they have 77 students.  They come for 5 weeks and then go home for 3 months.  This continues for 4 years.  Their campus is located AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, and we got very good pictures of it from their campus.

NOW HERE IS THE REAL GROWTH EXPERIENCE OF THE DAY.  We left that seminary at 3:45 and arrived HOME at 7:30 tonight.  Can you imagine the kind of traffic we faced going that 60 miles?  And to know that these people live like this day after day after day.  Children stay in school until 4:30 in the afternoons, and so they don't see much of their parents during the week.

Tomorrow night we get to eat with James, Lillian, and their 3 children, Kristi, Christian and Jason.  So stay tuned.

Thank you all who continue to pray.  Until later!