One of the things I found interesting in Uganda was that they grow amazing coffee… but don’t drink it. I had the hardest time getting our driver, Masandich Moses, to believe that we have entire “coffee restaurants” in the U.S. (Starbucks etc.) He thought I was trying to play a practical joke on him :) […]
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Here are some of my pictures from Uganda!! I was lucky to be able to ride along on several different day trips to small villages and some IDP Camps (refugee camps for Internally Displaced People). It was good to see a lot of the country… and it was difficult to see how much poverty and
I was going to try and get some of my pictures online tonight, but I can barely keep my eyes open. I’m going to postpone it till tomorrow (even though I know I’ll be starying at the ceiling again come 3:00 in the morning… got to love that jet lag!!)
I got in late last night and fell straight into bed. I’ve been staring at the ceiling, however, for the last five hours or so… Uganda is 11 hours ahead of Pacific Time, which means it’s 1 hour shy of the biggest jet lag you can get!! All I can think of is going to
Bags are getting packed and I’m off in the morning to Uganda. I’ve asked my friends Ben Larson and Rick Gerhardt to be “Guest Contributor’s” to the blog while I’m gone. They’re two of the most interesting and well written individuals I know!! Tamara also has author rights… So enjoy all their thoughts and writings,
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So I found out today that I am four days behind on taking the typhoid fever pills before I leave Thursday for Uganda. Not fun. I asked the pharmacist what I could do and her response was simply, “Pray you don’t get typhoid.” Encouraging…
We had a garage sale to help raise funds for Uganda today… below are the lessons that I learned. #1 Don’t have a garage sale in Bend during November #2 Don’t have a garage sale in Bend during November #3 See the first two lessons…
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We have our first Uganda Team meeting tonight… I’m pretty excited about the trip and the team (even though it was really hard to narrow it down since there were a lot more applications than spots). It’ll be fun to see what God does over the next months as the team grows together and the
The tickets for my trip to Uganda in November are getting purchased today or tomorrow… funny how tangible things like tickets make a trip “real” for the first time. God keeps working in crazy ways with that trip. In the last couple of weeks a meeting with a potential village partner has jumped onto the
