Sipi Falls and Church

Hi Everyone: This blog just isn’t doing justice!!!! How can you explain that many amazing days. Today was the day we loaded the children up to take them to Sipi Falls for there first outing. The children were to be picked up by 8:30am and from there pick us up at out villa, then head out. WELL…. The matrons heard singing and dancing at 5am and wondered what was going on. When they got up, the children were all dressed and ready to go, cause they were so excited. The first bus had no brakes so we settled with a smaller bus and needed to rent an additional van to haul everyone. Well, some children had never been in a vehicle before . So a few kids got car sick. But we gave them a little gravol and we seem to be good to go. After our hike, we tried to find a place to eat with 52 people. (not that easy in Africa)But we did, it was called “west of hill” in Mbale. Back home I would have never dreamt of taking that many children to a restaurant, but the children are so well behaved. We all enjoyed a wonderful meal together. But the MOST amazing part of the day was the children singing on the bus. Praising Our Heavenly Father in every word. In Phillipians 4:6 it says “In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made know unto God. Well…the bus driver did not appreciation the beautiful singing, so he started driving alittle erratic to get the children to stop. But like the verse says “take everything to the Lord in prayer” and that is what the children did through song. They sang even louder and prayed through songs for their bus driver. Another ‘victory” won through Jesus , the bus driver slowed right down. All in all we saw beautiful country and had a full day with the children. We came back late at the villa and spent alittle time relaxing and then to bed for an early rise for church.


We went to the St. Stephens Kumi Church of Uganda. (English service) What a fabulous message. Some of you may know that Rosemary had chosen that pastor (Jeremiah) to be the pastor at our future church at the orphanage. Not sure whether that will happen, but Lord willing it will. And MUCH to our surprise the Real Team got asked to sing. You do not realize how many hundreds of Ugandans attend church till you are standing in the front. With so many children we chose to sing “He’s Got The Whole in His Hands”

After the service we got asked to visit the Girls high school and say a few words. They have 520 students and 280 of them are residents and most of them are orphans. Lack of Hilroy notebooks is one of the main reasons why children are not in school today. The government has funded free schooling but the children need to have 12 notebooks per year and pencils. And for some that isn’t possible and some just do not chose to spend there money that way.

We returned back to the villa for breakfast and then we will be off to the orphanage for one last after noon with the children. Oh, how the tears will flow when giving all those hugs. Like I said this blog does not due justice , whether it be holding the children in the orphanage or in the community, whether clean or dirty, clothed or unclothed we loved holding each and everyone of them and tell them that they are loved, not only by us, but by Jesus Christ our Lord who has created them.



Till next time Love …

Sherry

The Real Team

Thank you for all the prayers for my ankles. Been taking some antibiotics and things are improving lots. Please pray for peace during the elections. The elections are on Feb 18th.