Team 2 greetings 8 July
Hello to all from team 2. It is Friday morning here and we were given a later start due to a late night last night.
Please be praying for Susan and Shana as they spent a miserable day yesterday with a stomach bug. Dr. Eric was consulted and we called the states to talk to Kathryn and by last night they were both much improved and able to eat a little something. Thank you Kathryn for your presence, your advice and your prayers. It is so reasurring to know that when we are here we have an excellent Doctor (Eric) standing by ready to make house (hotel) calls.
The remainder of the team spent the day in various activities. This part will be noted in random order: The teams going into Kampala got a late start so although much was accomplished it will mean another trip for Tom and Robert to conclude their buying trip. The completed the most important purchases which were the rest of the medical supplies and the mosquito nets. THANKS VBS KIDS!!!! They still need to purchase the metal for the medicine cabinet and single bed frames for the existing clinic room and material to fabricate the swing set. We haven't got a report from Dave Bennett yet. We were still at HUMS until late and he came directly back to Ridar Hotel for dinner and sleep. He is trying to get a lot done before his departure on Sunday.
Some of the other team members finished unpacking and inventorying supplies. The store room looks great. Many more shelves were built in the last two days to hold all of the supplies. There were still a few things in boxes that were in the very back of the container. The teachers are very excited by the books. They have crayons and pencils and markers to last for a very long time. The teachers are anxious to get at the books. They have been reading the same stories over and over. And Rosette is excited by the soap and dental care stuff. Again, THANKS VBS KIDS!!!
A couple of the team members taught. Rev. John was in P3. He assisted Henry, Cathy and Pastor Dave's 'son' who has finished secondary and is set to go to university first to become a math teacher but then to go on into engineering.
Amy taught P5 about the heart. She has a beautiful heart (and soul) so it should have been easy for her. She was assisted by Val. They had fun and we got good reports about it from her students. In the afternoon she taught again. She was very brave - doing an origami project. This is something Dave Bennett had hoped to do but time and lost paper prevented it. Amy was the student in the morning, with Dave teaching her a couple of projects, then she was the teacher in the afternoon. She will have a refresher today and go back and finish the projects today with the kids - crane and box.
Erin and Kevin spent a lot of time preparing for an art project that was planned for the afternoon. There were two projects available - one to color a bookmark, the other to make a collage (I need a college kid here to tell me if I spelled that right). After school was out all of the kids gathered in the big room. They naturally divided by boys and girls since that is how most of their activities are split. The girls did the bookmarks and the boys the collage. There was lots of glue on everything but also some beautiful artwork. After that the boys headed off for football and Amy led the girls off to volleyball.
Lee Ann, Marie and Diane spent most of the day mending the children's clothes. In 2003 Marie had sent a sewing machine over in the container. Well yesterday Lee Ann spent hours at that sewing machine while Marie and Diane sewed by hand. One little girl came looking for her play clothes after school. She thanked them profusely and as she walked out she was seen clutching the mended dress, skipping up the path tossing it up and down. She was so thrilled that someone had taken the time to take care of this. For the three team members, all from different churches, it was a great opportunity to get to know each other.
As always, one activity that goes on all of the time is simply spending time with people. Val says she has never answered so many questions in one day. The Loving Example teens are loving having our university kids here. Just hanging out, talking, playing frisbee or some ball game is an incredible way to spend a day in mission.
Cathy and Jen spent a good part of the day seeing to the business end, representing the call group. Marie was sewing so we tried not to interrupt her. Top priority for the business is seeing to the water project. The rest of the time Cathy was checking on Shana and Susan, running back to the Ridar to check and also to pick up our take away lunch - peanut butter and jello sandwicheds, hardboiled eggs and bananas. The team went in to the Colline for a mid day break and to get some sodas.
We ate dinner at the Colline, later than we hoped but then that is SOP for our teams as we get involved in so much at the site it is hard to get away. We had arranged to go back to HUMS, hopefully to spend time with the kids near bedtime but also to share some time in worship with the Loving Example Youth. Well, we got back at 9:00 so needless to say the little ones were in bed, but the youth were ready to worship. We were concerned about disturbing the children but Robert said it was only one night - and it was important to worship. So we spent and hour with the Loving Examply choir leading us in song and dance. Just after we started most of the big girls in the dorm came in to join us. With their help Amy got the moves for the dance down. It was a joyfilled hour with the new keyboard and with one of the youth working on learning the guitar. It works with the equipment they have on hand. THANKS BOB LEME!!!!
A few memorable sites - when we came back from lunch we used the new road cut into the new property. The bus carrying the nursery kids was just leaving, headed out the old road. One little tike had been left behind and was running after the van. It had to stop because of a lorry coming to make a delivery but started up again, still leaving the little guy. We were shouting from the van at the lorry driver to hold the van. Then, just when we thought he would be left one of the older students went running by to grab his hand and get him safely on the van.
Yesterday some of the boys wanted their photos taken. They would say "this one", now "this one". When I had gotten them all they pointed down the sidewalk and said "now that one". I asked them which one they meant and they said they wanted to have their picture with Marie.
Rosette came to treat the many children who are ill. It was only later in the day that she told us that she too has malaria but came because she knew the children needed her.
As always it is intense, laughter mixed with tears. I would not want to be anywhere else.
Peace and Grace,
Jen
Please be praying for Susan and Shana as they spent a miserable day yesterday with a stomach bug. Dr. Eric was consulted and we called the states to talk to Kathryn and by last night they were both much improved and able to eat a little something. Thank you Kathryn for your presence, your advice and your prayers. It is so reasurring to know that when we are here we have an excellent Doctor (Eric) standing by ready to make house (hotel) calls.
The remainder of the team spent the day in various activities. This part will be noted in random order: The teams going into Kampala got a late start so although much was accomplished it will mean another trip for Tom and Robert to conclude their buying trip. The completed the most important purchases which were the rest of the medical supplies and the mosquito nets. THANKS VBS KIDS!!!! They still need to purchase the metal for the medicine cabinet and single bed frames for the existing clinic room and material to fabricate the swing set. We haven't got a report from Dave Bennett yet. We were still at HUMS until late and he came directly back to Ridar Hotel for dinner and sleep. He is trying to get a lot done before his departure on Sunday.
Some of the other team members finished unpacking and inventorying supplies. The store room looks great. Many more shelves were built in the last two days to hold all of the supplies. There were still a few things in boxes that were in the very back of the container. The teachers are very excited by the books. They have crayons and pencils and markers to last for a very long time. The teachers are anxious to get at the books. They have been reading the same stories over and over. And Rosette is excited by the soap and dental care stuff. Again, THANKS VBS KIDS!!!
A couple of the team members taught. Rev. John was in P3. He assisted Henry, Cathy and Pastor Dave's 'son' who has finished secondary and is set to go to university first to become a math teacher but then to go on into engineering.
Amy taught P5 about the heart. She has a beautiful heart (and soul) so it should have been easy for her. She was assisted by Val. They had fun and we got good reports about it from her students. In the afternoon she taught again. She was very brave - doing an origami project. This is something Dave Bennett had hoped to do but time and lost paper prevented it. Amy was the student in the morning, with Dave teaching her a couple of projects, then she was the teacher in the afternoon. She will have a refresher today and go back and finish the projects today with the kids - crane and box.
Erin and Kevin spent a lot of time preparing for an art project that was planned for the afternoon. There were two projects available - one to color a bookmark, the other to make a collage (I need a college kid here to tell me if I spelled that right). After school was out all of the kids gathered in the big room. They naturally divided by boys and girls since that is how most of their activities are split. The girls did the bookmarks and the boys the collage. There was lots of glue on everything but also some beautiful artwork. After that the boys headed off for football and Amy led the girls off to volleyball.
Lee Ann, Marie and Diane spent most of the day mending the children's clothes. In 2003 Marie had sent a sewing machine over in the container. Well yesterday Lee Ann spent hours at that sewing machine while Marie and Diane sewed by hand. One little girl came looking for her play clothes after school. She thanked them profusely and as she walked out she was seen clutching the mended dress, skipping up the path tossing it up and down. She was so thrilled that someone had taken the time to take care of this. For the three team members, all from different churches, it was a great opportunity to get to know each other.
As always, one activity that goes on all of the time is simply spending time with people. Val says she has never answered so many questions in one day. The Loving Example teens are loving having our university kids here. Just hanging out, talking, playing frisbee or some ball game is an incredible way to spend a day in mission.
Cathy and Jen spent a good part of the day seeing to the business end, representing the call group. Marie was sewing so we tried not to interrupt her. Top priority for the business is seeing to the water project. The rest of the time Cathy was checking on Shana and Susan, running back to the Ridar to check and also to pick up our take away lunch - peanut butter and jello sandwicheds, hardboiled eggs and bananas. The team went in to the Colline for a mid day break and to get some sodas.
We ate dinner at the Colline, later than we hoped but then that is SOP for our teams as we get involved in so much at the site it is hard to get away. We had arranged to go back to HUMS, hopefully to spend time with the kids near bedtime but also to share some time in worship with the Loving Example Youth. Well, we got back at 9:00 so needless to say the little ones were in bed, but the youth were ready to worship. We were concerned about disturbing the children but Robert said it was only one night - and it was important to worship. So we spent and hour with the Loving Examply choir leading us in song and dance. Just after we started most of the big girls in the dorm came in to join us. With their help Amy got the moves for the dance down. It was a joyfilled hour with the new keyboard and with one of the youth working on learning the guitar. It works with the equipment they have on hand. THANKS BOB LEME!!!!
A few memorable sites - when we came back from lunch we used the new road cut into the new property. The bus carrying the nursery kids was just leaving, headed out the old road. One little tike had been left behind and was running after the van. It had to stop because of a lorry coming to make a delivery but started up again, still leaving the little guy. We were shouting from the van at the lorry driver to hold the van. Then, just when we thought he would be left one of the older students went running by to grab his hand and get him safely on the van.
Yesterday some of the boys wanted their photos taken. They would say "this one", now "this one". When I had gotten them all they pointed down the sidewalk and said "now that one". I asked them which one they meant and they said they wanted to have their picture with Marie.
Rosette came to treat the many children who are ill. It was only later in the day that she told us that she too has malaria but came because she knew the children needed her.
As always it is intense, laughter mixed with tears. I would not want to be anywhere else.
Peace and Grace,
Jen
posted by humbleway at 11:07 PM
6 Comments:
jen,
i just found this site today, after being gone all week last week and hearing about it yesterday, what a great idea! i am looking forward to reading through all the previous posts and catching up...please greet cathy for me. you are all in my thoughts and prayers.
grace and peace, susie
Hello all,
trying to get in touch with mother< dianna Hancock. If you raed this hope you are having fun, sounds like you guys got alot of stuff acomplished. Im going to set dad up an acount and give tasha and the littlne all your info, sorry it took so long i couldnt f the paper. Ok have fun love you lots, the house is still standing. love mike
Thanks so much for the vivid reports. It may be said that a picture's worth a thousand words, but that's definitely not the case with your accounts - Jen's being the latest. Sounds as though you're really getting a lot done, plus having a lot of fun, too. Great balance! Loved hearing about the origami and collages. What about paper mache? (And I probably misspelled that, too - another tricky one.) I'll keep praying for all and especially those who are not in good health, be it stomach bugs, malaria, etc. Take care and be blessed. Jeanette
Hey guys!! Glad to hear the reports
Have a great time
Hi Jen!
It sounds like you're having a good trip, despite the challenges. Is Pastor Toko still with you all? If he is, tell him that I said hi and that I'm sorry he hasn't gotten to go home yet. He has been very patient and I know he's missing his family. Oh! On our last day my mom let Paul use her disposable camera to take a few pictures. She can't find it and she doesn't actually remember Paul giving it back to her. Could you ask him if he still has it, and if he does could you bring it back with you? Thanks. Tell Paul and Miracle that we said hi and that we miss them! At church this morning I heard that you stayed behind with Susan and Shana while the rest of the team went to Busia, and that the van broke down on the way. During our trip I remember thinking how amazing it was that we had never had any problems with the van in all our travels (apart from the window, of course). Well, if you're going to have car problems there's no one better to be with than Moses, right? I hope that Susan and Shana are feeling better now. Dr. Eric is an incredible resource to have there! (As is Rosette!). Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I'm praying for you, I miss you, and I love you:)
Enjoy your second week!!!
~Christina
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