Day 1 - Sky high emotions in Marare

And so the team made it safely to Marare! Praise God!

They arrived late in the day today, and spent a couple hours in the village during day light. This message from the team describes the atmosphere and emotions pretty well: "Greetings from Marare. Our team arrived safely after 2 days of travel. Our hosts in London were absolutely amazing opening their home to us and taking us on a tour of London. Paul and Janice poured out their blessings and made us feel like family. London was amazing and we enjoyed the sites, yet our hearts longed to be with the people of Marare. We arrived late in Entebe at 11:00 pm and were met by Moses. It was a very exciting and emotional meeting. The team stayed at the guest house in Kampala near the FH office. We had a good night sleep, breakfast and then drove to Mbale where we dropped off our things at the hotel. The team were all pretty weary and tired by the time we got to the hotel. That all changed as we entered the village but before we got to the school. These people have nothing compared to us yet seemed to be far more content.

The Marare greeting at around 4PM to 5:30PM raised everyone up. Tears of joy and a sense of wanting to be great to them in return were just a few of the emotions. There wasn't a dry eye on our bus and any tiredness was gone, revived by the people. What amazing love, genuine and true. I have never seen anything like this before. Tears flowed freely as these people, God's people, thanked each and everyone back home through the Marare team, for their love and support. Thank you for your continued prayers and love. We can't wait to see what God has in store in the coming weeks."

Miracle #1 occurred already. Gary (this year's team leader) advised that there was a change in customs upon arriving in Uganda. "We arrived in Entebbe at around midnight as planned. Going towards customs, we realized they are using hand scanners for fingerprints to enter the country. Of course this was an issue for Bill. But would you believe the agent waived him aside when everyone else needed to be scanned. No problem for God, but a very surreal sense of his provision." For clarification -- Bill no longer has fingerprints due to years of working with carbon paper as a professor.