Chloe and I presented this movie about our year for Sunday school yesterday at New Life. For anyone who wasn’t able to be there, I’ve uploaded it for your viewing pleasure. Pastor Dave would like me to remind you all that we only had Koolaid
news
Many of you may be wondering what we’re doing now that we’re stateside. Sometimes I wonder the same thing. The truth, however, is that we’re doing quite a bit even if it isn’t a 9-5 or 24/7 job that we’ve been used to. First, we’ve
Back to life in the developed world. Where plastic utensils are disposable and there are public water fountains (remember those?). Many things that I used to take for granted have developed a new novelty. It’s been a wild couple of weeks with Chloe’s parents coming
I know you’ve all heard this before, but it seems that rain is back with a vengeance in Nakaale. Over four inches in three days. Our local stream is up over twelve inches, swollen with runoff from the mountain. The plants in the fields seem
Over the past few weeks of teaching, my class has already transitioned through numerous iterations. I began with three students: Nakaale, Loumo, and Nacap. Although throughout the time, three other girls have come and gone I want to focus on these three. Nakaale is approximately
UPDATE 14.3.13: Many from our mission have gone and sat with Michael and Martha this week, including Chloe and I this afternoon. Michael has also had some sickness and both of them are very weak from going without food (lack of appetite). But, by God’s
If you’ve been checking up on me lately, you’ll notice a big fat nothing by way of updates. Part of the reason is that I’ve been locked alone inside the Tricaricos’ bathroom for several weeks. Ok, not really–the door doesn’t actually lock—but we’ve been renovating
Do you remember learning how to read and write? I don’t. I remember being chastised by the teacher because instead of reading her the story I had memorized it. I remember my dad reading The Chronicles of Narnia to us kids. I remember devouring books
We baptized another covenant child in Nakaale today. There had been some speculation regarding what the name of the child would be. His Karimojong name was after a friend of the family, but as is often the case, the Christian name was a bit longer
There have been multiple events in the last few weeks that have reminded me that our battle is not against, “flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in
I do feel as though the agricultural analogies that we use to describe the growth(!) of the church here can dwindle into the cliche when we are reporting, but they are so unavoidable and apropos in the agrarian society that we find ourselves in. I
This past weekend some members of the mission met with the local authorities to discuss a proposal from the mission for a preparatory school. Over the past nine months or so, the mission has seriously discussed beginning a school, which would focus on literacy and