Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category

Silence

I have been silent. There is so much to think about these days. I am not one of those people who can talk and listen at the same time. So I have just been listening. Africa took a while to process. It was so huge. So overwhelming. I am not eloquent enough to describe it. Words have failed me. So I have...
July 29th, 2009 | Adventures, Africa | Read More

Musima Uganda

Yesterday I went to visit a family in a small village called Musima. A friend of McKensey, named Moses lives there with his family. We also knew that there was a woman who lived there that cares for many orphaned children. Some members of our church had given us some money to help them and we were able...
June 20th, 2009 | Adventures, Africa | Read More

The church at Wankonge village

The church at Wankonge village
Today we went to visit the church in the village of Wankonge (say: won con gay). I traveled with 8 other missionaries and their 3 children. The village of Wankonge was about a 45 minute car ride from Jinja. The church building is a small brick structure with a concrete floor and a tin metal roof suspended...
June 14th, 2009 | Adventures, Africa | Read More

pictures please!

I would love to share more pictures from here in Uganda but the internet uploading is a little slow and I am borrowing the connection. Tomorrow we will be visiting a village church so I will make sure that I take the time to share a few of that. For today Lori took me to get some American dollars exchanged...
June 13th, 2009 | Adventures, Africa | Read More

London, Jinja..woah

I have not slept for close to 40  hours. And have just had my first shower since last Thursday. I am running on chai and excitement. Yesterday morning I landed in London and did the quickest tour of the city you could ever imagine. We have a friend, John who lives there and he was kind enough to show...
June 12th, 2009 | Adventures, Africa | Read More

Stepping Out

In just 2 short days my journey to Uganda will begin. I never imagined that my spiritual journey would take me so far from home. Yet, I feel the call of Africa pulling me. I can’t fully explain it. So many people have asked me why I would want to go somewhere so far. I do after all have a very large...
June 8th, 2009 | Africa | Read More