Our Annual Christmas Carnival

Every year we have a huge Carnival at the church during Christmas time -where we collect clothes, food and other house hold items to give away to the community. The images your looking are some of the clothes we gave away and also the line for people to receive the free items. This year was bigger than ever and we gave away more than 5,000 items including beds, bicycles, furniture, rice, beans, shoes and so much more. We also offer free services like nail polish, shoe polish, hair cuts, car wash and even eye brow trimming. In addition we also have all sorts of games the people can play to win prizes. We run two Carnivals at the same time, an adult and a children's. All the items we collect are given by the community and the church members. It's a great time to see people giving back to the community in a culture that too often expects things the other way around.

The Price of Fuel

If you don't know it - our neighbor Kenya has been in political crisis. The President claimed victory and took over the office while it would seem he was not the winner or at least it was so close that they would have needed to do a recount. Anyway because most of the fuel trucks come through Kenya into Uganda the price of gasoline shot up to about $11.69 a gallon (that is what we paid) average price - but some paid up to almost $23.000 a gallon, regular price here is about $6.00 a gallon. So you see that your blessed to pay $3.00 or $4.00 a gallon. But the real problem was getting fuel or finding it. As fuel trucks enter the gas or petrol stations - police would be on stand by. The station could sell 2,500 gallons in 5 hrs and then when it was gone - the station did not receive fuel again for another 3 days. For us we had only one car that had fuel, so we limited our movements . It gave me a fresh perspective on what may happen in the future throughout the world and how it can affect us. Most of us don't think in this type of terms - "What would you do if you had no fuel to get to work?" "How much of your life is dependent on gasoline?" something to think about.....................and ponder. It has helped us to see that God is our source and He does take care of us, but no one is exempt from the situations that effect the world. Our faith is in Him and His provision and not a government or bank account. It's good a feeling to know that He is our source. Thankfully the situation is getting better and at the moment our tanks our full and so are our hearts. God bless you

Welcome to another day of life!!

Well here it is.... uhhhh.....can't say you have been waiting for this or have you have you. Anyway...hopefully this blog may help us keep in touch. The question is..... will I ever write anything.... or will this be just idea I had. Well Anyway, We are hoping we can begin to keep you a little more up to date on our lives and what's happening here in Uganda. Sooooooo. let me post a real blog.