August 23rd - A day of blessing

At a quarter to 6, we woke in Jerome & Stella's brick home in the rural village of Kyangwali. All three of us, Bonny, Levi, and I had enjoyed a great night of sleep.

Pastor Jerome, Solomon, and Pastor Danny rose to see us off. At about 6:30, Gerald picked us up in his car to head to Hoima. He had also driven us to the village the day before.

The sunrise was breath-takingly colorful. The red road contrasted with the green plants, and the blueing sky had shades of orange --- quite the sight!

Arriving in Hoima at about 8:30, Bonny found a guest house at which we could clean up. We then left our bags with a friend of Bonny's and walked around town for a bit.

After breakfast, we visited the home of Mercy, a lady who takes care of 3 girls and 9 boys who have been orphaned.

Although Mercy was in Kampala at the time, we were able to encourage and bless Harriet and her children as well as several neighbors who help her.

Harriet assists Mercy, caring for the 9 boys along with her own two boys.

We rode via motorcycle to the school that Mercy oversees, there were about 40 kids there with four adults. Bonny introduced us to the group and we spent a short time with them. Levi shared a bit on hope in Jesus. We prayed for them, and they prayed for us.

Our bus for Kampala left at 2pm. Just before the end of the trip, the rain poured hard and jammed up the downtown streets, so we left the bus and walked to catch a matatu to Entebbe.

In Entebbe, we visited Jalia, an ex-muslim who leads a church there. We prayed and talked with her and several other church leaders, encouraging them, and they prayed for us.

We caught another matatu for a very short ride back to a main street in Entebbe, and there transferred to an airport taxi.

The conversation another passenger Ivan was a great encouragement. He was incredibly open to accepting Jesus, and prayed with Levi almost immediately. He works for the airline which we will be flying on, and almost immediately after receiving Jesus he non-chalantly stated:
'Maybe I'll see you up there...'.
Yep, we'll definitely see him up there. :-)


We arrived at the airport and said goodbye to Bonny.

God set us up with a flight delay, which actually enabled us to talk with quite a few people right there in the airport about Jesus. There were numerous conversations at this point, as we've so far been in the airport for over 8 hours. Our flight is now scheduled to leave at 7am in the morning local time, that's 9pm back home.

We're trusting God for our safe return!