Day 1 – Long Travel Day

Our journey began with great excitement, we all met at the church as at team with friends and family for prayer before we started our long journey. We prayed as a church family for travel mercies and god provided 100% of the time. 

We all went through security without issues and enjoyed a nice supper together in Edmonton. It was great to see to be with Edith and Rob at the airport while they traveled to Vancouver for their holiday.

There is always that fear and uncertainty with regards to connections, especially the short 1-hour connection at Amsterdam. Thank goodness that connection was made without issue and we had just enough time to make it to the gate. We were able to get some sleep on the plane, but it was hard to sleep thinking about meeting all our friends and bringing them greetings from back home. But we did finally get some rest.
Moses greeted us in Entebbe, and we made our journey to the guest house. We arrived around 1:00 am and had a short rest before we left for Mable at 8:30 am. We all were very excited to greet our friend. Moses is the program director for Food for the Hungry, Mbale.

Day 2

Along the way to Mbale we stopped in and saw Christine, Sam and Shalom at their store in Mukono. They fed us some pineapple, watermelon and jack fruit. Yummy!!! Nothing like fresh fruit. For those of you that don’t know, Christine and Shalom lived in Edmonton for a couple of years with Rob and Edith Sinclair.

I could feel the excitement build as we got closer to our destination and every vertebra in my spin, the roads in Uganda are a little bumpy to say the least. We stopped in Jinja at the base of the Nile River for lunch. It seems the rains decided to follow us to Jinja in a crazy downpour. 

We finally made it to our hotel around 7:30 pm and that’s when it hit us that we were home in Uganda. We all had a great night’s rest and then it was off to Marare for church, 4 hours and 2 services later. We couldn’t get over all the new buildings in Marare. Businesses homes it almost was a rag to riches story. Old shacks are gone, and new brick buildings are everywhere.

It was great to see the finished school blocks, church and teachers quarters.  
The service was great but a little long we really enjoyed the singing.
After the service we had lunch in one of the school blocks and the rains came down in a torrential down pour again. We thought we left the rains back home in Alberta but they seemed to follow us. They called it a miracle as Marare has been very dry. Yeah us.

Blessing to all of you.