Friday, October 12, 2012

Oct. 4 - Karamoja bound


Spent the morning at devotions, packing and shopping for supplies.  Liz led devotions and picked “Jesus and Food” as her topic.  3 of Jesus’ miracles involved food, He used meals as teaching opportunities, His last time with His disciples was over a meal, He proved His physical resurrection with food and we will all one day feast with Him at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Thank you for your prayers.  We made it safely to Karamoja.  There were truck size ‘pot holes’ but very little water in them.   Ten days ago they were filled with as much as 4 feet of water and the road was impassable at times.  The drive was very pretty but Andy was tortured by not being able to stop and identify all the bird life we saw in passing!  We even arrived just before dark.  We have left the land of flush toilets, hot showers and electricity.  We have a ‘squatty potty’ (alias pit toilet), took a refreshing lukewarm ‘cup shower’ tonight and lighting is kerosene lanterns.  It was great to wash all the dust from the drive off.  There is no AC in the cars here so we drive on dirt roads with all the windows down in the heat of the days.

Dr. Val stayed behind in Soroti to finish some paperwork there then she is going to Kenya to get vehicle parts.  She will be joining us here on Sunday.  Our new team consists of Julie, Andy and Liz.  Melissa had to leave for a chicken project and Daniel and Rachel are living in Soroti.

Prayer Requests:
-         That we would function well with her absent and the other CLIDE members would be successful at organizing work for is.

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