Greetings from Uganda

Praise God!  We made it safely to Uganda.  We arrived at 10:30pm last night (local time). It was an incredibly long travel day (well, a little more than a day).  All of your gifts arrived in the luggage and we had no problems getting visas, through customs, etc.  We were greeted SO warmly by Michael and others from ARM at the airport. 

Our introduction to Uganda was getting on a bus in 80 degree temperature and driving in crazy traffic on the wrong side of the road (they drive on the left here). 

Let me be brief as we have a lot going on.  Today was our first full day in Uganda and it was a very busy day.  We started with a tour of the ARM office and the amazing program that they have going here.  We then went to a local medical clinic and spent time with the people there and had a wonderful conversation with the doctor there.  After lunch, we went to Loving Hearts Orphan Home.  I will need some time to describe that experience, but one thing I will say is that Ashley said that one of the babies who was there because her mother tried to kill her by stabbing her, “looked into my soul”.  I personally, held several of the children who were so beautiful and soaked up the love we brought there. 

After the orphanage, we visited Bethany Village which is a self-contained community that consists of a medical clinic, school, orphanage, farm (pigs, chickens, vegetables and other crops) and the church.  More on that later as well, but they have a God-given vision and people dedicating their lives to raising Uganda’s future leaders.  To get to the village, we had a 40 minute boat ride to get to the village across Lake Victoria.  Lake Victoria is the second largest lake in the world (do you know the biggest?) and is the source of the Nile River.

I really apologize for the brevity of this post, but we have many things going and I wanted you all to know we are here, safe and blessed by God.  Please pray for us to travel to Kachungwa safely tomorrow and that God will bless the people here in Uganda.

Thank you for your prayers and we will be getting you more soon.  In Christ – Dave