Saturday, June 28, 2014

Rachel & Chrystina's Jinja Adventure

I just loved the warp on this taxi. Crossing the Owen Falls Dam ...
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Sole Hope

Sole Hope is a group of passionate, committed people who are putting closed toed shoes on African children, one pair at a time. Jiggers are a very serious problem in Africa and in a place where so many children don’t have shoes, even more serious. Check out their website to learn more about this organization. We had the blessing of sleeping in their guest house and learning a bit more about what...
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Rachel & Chrystina's Nile Adventure

Apparently we are "The Rest of the World" A kiss for Gandhi A view of the actual source, where Lake Victoria enters the Nile River ...
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Prison Ministry

As always I love joining Carpenter John for his Bugembe prison ministry services on Thursday or Sunday afternoon. He’s been serving as chaplain for more than 10 years and I’ve been joining him about once monthly for almost 4 of those 10 years. Initially we were allowed to sneak a few photos but as the prison system tightened up, photos were no longer permissible. These photos are from early visits...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Dad's School

A quick peek into Dad’s School on the way to the Sanctuary Children’s Home was all we intended Trapped by the rain, however, Rachel and Chrystina had fun with the kids as we completely disrupted their post lunch class focus. The girls can always be found making silly faces when there are children around but it was fun to watch the children overwhelm them this time as they ran their dirty fingers...
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Abba Father

Full taxis whizzed past us for quite a long time before we finally found one to take us the short distance to Mpumudde. I was eager to avoid boda bodas on the highway, but should have probably been less eager to avoid the taxi park. Anticipative, smiling faces awaited our arrival and they showed off their new gathering hall. Six women gather together twice weekly to worship, pray, and work on developing...
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Rachel & Chrystina's Kampala Adventure

Overlooking half of Nakasero market, where I buy my food. Leslie, Chrystina, and Rachel. Says it all! Inside Owino Market a few stalls are rented as office space for tailoring work. The taxi park on Sunday, very tame. Another view of the taxi park, the brown strip in the center are small shops.The KCC has removed so many from the sidewalk and street....
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