Northgate Baptist and Food For the Hungry

Northgate Baptist partners with Food For the Hungry and a small village called Marare, in Uganda, to help them become a self sustainable community. From building classrooms, supporting entrepreneurship and leadership skills, to sponsoring children from the community, we hope to help transform Marare to the point where they can help themselves as well as neighbouring communities.

In partnership with FH Canada

Thursday, July 16, 2015

TRAVELLING LIKE MZUNGUS



It's the night before, and I'm just posting briefly to try out the computer we are taking with us ....


Our living room is in disarray, filled with 3/4 packed suitcases, and we are frantically checking our lists. We are not "travelling light" ... rather, I'd have to say that we are travelling like typical North American "mzungus", as I'm told we will be called in Uganda ... thank goodness for a 2 checked bag plus 1 carry-on limit.


Anyways, tomorrow we go; please pray for us as we go off on our adventure.


DID YOU KNOW?


Evidently (from everything I've read) "mzungu" is the universal Ugandan term for North Americans ... quite an accomplishment to have a widely-used term in a country with so many different languages. But what does it really mean?


(Again from what I've read), it appears to mean something along the lines of "one who wanders, or travels". It also seems to have connotations of "one who wanders aimlessly, or restlessly, or as if they were lost."   Hmmmmmm.....

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