Our Awesome God!!!

Nile River behind Paraa Safari Lodge

Our God is so awesome! He arranged for us to go on Tuesday with Project Hope's first team from here to the airport & then to pick up the second team at the airport on Thursday in Entebbe. This trip included a safari & stay at a great lodge near Murchison Falls. What a treat! We enjoyed spending time with this team from the States so much! (We knew about half of them beforehand. They were a young team & the only male on the team was 16 years old, so that's why we went this trip). And what a variety of things to see, from vegetation/landscape to birds/animals. We are so blessed.

We had excellent drivers to manage the roads in Uganda. These were more interesting than most. We had a photographer with us who has promised to share some of her photos with us, so we may be able to put some of them on the blog. Some of the animals we saw on the game drive & boat ride were antelope, heartabeasts, hippos, cape buffalo (like water buffalo) crocodiles, giraffes, & wart hogs. Dennis also went back in the evening with a couple of the gals on the team & SAW LIONS! See some of our pictures below.

We all completed a "challenging" hike to Murchison Falls. It was awesome to see God's creation. This waterfall was something to see & the water splashing out felt really good after a hot hike.

It was great to see the second team (most whom we did know). We arrived in Lira on Friday night & spent Saturday morning with them at the orphanage. The children & staff always put on quite a celebration when a new team arrives. Dennis helped the team with the work day in the afternoon & Margie came home to get things in order.

We went hut-to-hut with the first team in the Bunga Bunga village where five people came to know Christ. A couple of team members prayed for a young boy & he was healed instantly. His father stood up in church the next Sunday & praised God for it.

Having the teams here is just another reminder of how much we love & miss our family & friends in the States. It also makes us very thankful for your prayers & support. May God bless you for all you have done to make our ministry here possible. The other missionaries will be going to the States for a break soon, & we will need your prayers then more than ever. We are thankful to be here, serve the Lord and see His hand at work at Calo Me Lare (the orphanage) & at the Bunga Bunga Bible Church. Who knows what else He will do while we are here. He is AWESOME!

Life in a Third World Country

Thank you again, family & friends, for all your prayers & support! The last couple of weeks have been full, preparing for the US teams arrival. The first team arrived this afternoon. It was exciting to see Pastor Derk, Clay, Montana, Jesaca Gibson & Chase Mills from Discovery + a few new faces. We enjoyed a leisurely dinner with them at their hotel, the Margaritha.

Dennis preached last Sunday, May 27th at the Bunga Bunga Bible Fellowship, the church that meets at the orphanage. It was a big encouragement to Pastor Emiku Dennis & the church as a whole. The message was on sanctification.

God did a miracle for us on Wednesday. We were driving to the orphanage over very rough roads & must have hit a rock at the side of the road as we were meeting an oncoming car. We heard a huge hissing sound & every turn of the wheels we kept hearing it. We kept going and a little farther down the road the hissing sound stopped. We drove about 10 more minutes before reaching the orphanage. When we got to the orphanage we found a tire that was mostly flat with a bent rim. Some way God had sealed up our tire and gotten us safely to the orphanage. We used the spare, had the rim repaired & all is well.

Bananas growing on a banana tree in our backyard.

These are mud bricks, made by hand, laid out to dry with straw over the top. They will dry until they are cured enough to stack. Then they will stack them in a pile with a hollow center so they can build a fire inside to fire them. (See photo below). Everything is done the hard way.

Beautiful but strange!!! This is a worm Dennis saw at the orphanage a couple of weeks ago. There were several on one particular tree, but they are not there now.

We thought our computer had crashed on Friday, but the battery had run down. We are very limited on space, have other issues & are not sure whether we will be able to post again for a couple of weeks. We are getting another computer from the US , with the second team. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers.