Yesturday was our first day of VBS in Iganga, Uganda and over 400 kids shopwed up. Today their was about the same amout!! There are only 7 to 10 team members working with the kids, so it has been a little overwhelming! Although there is a whole lot of chaos, it pays off when you see how uch fun the kids are having.
We have worship time where we sing songs and dance to them several times throughout the day. It has been amazing to see how quickly the children have learned these songs. Today we sang several of them without any music! I really see God working through these children! It is so exciting!
After singing, we do a bible lesson, but the kids have a hard time listening to a story in three word phrases so that it can easily be interpreted, so then we break for them to play a mutitude of games outside! Some of these include soccer, the Ugandan version of tug of war, duck, duck, goose, and red rover! While the kids are playing Makayla(the other teenage girl on our team), and a couple of the other women on the team, watched the babies that children take care of, so that they could have fun.
One of the babies was very well taken care of and had rolls of baby fat on top of rolls of fat, and had a diaper on! This is a very rare sight here. It actually rare to see a baby anything on! Others were not nearly as fortunate. Several had malaria, all were malnourished, and all of them just wanted to be loved on! One of them was being taken care of by two girls who said they had to watch him while his dad went to burry his mom and twin sister who had recently died! This story is even more sad than what it may sound, because this baby is not going to be raised by is father, because his father must support himself and work, which leaves no time to raise a baby. Baby Benny will must likely be sent to another family, or if he is lucky, be sent to an orphanage.
Time to go prepare for tomorrow now! Sorry for all of you who want to see pictures. It is practically impossible for them to load, and I have tried every night! If this continues, I will definately post them when I get back! By the way..... Our Lost Luggage finally came today!!!!!!!! God Is Great!!
Hope
Hi Hope! My name is Cindy Fontenot and I am a friend of your mom's. She gave me the link to your blog and I have read your posts. What a wonderful work you & your family are doing for Jesus. It is a blessed opportunity to be the hands, feet and heart of Jesus and serve and love on these sweet children! God bless you & I will be praying for you!
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