Yesterday, we spent the day traveling to the Teso region of Uganda. It was a 6 hour drive from Kampala with a stop in Jinja for a meal. Jinga is a town very close to the "scource" of the Nile river. (The Nile flows out of Lake Victoria up through Egypt to...
Today marks the half-point of our trip to Uganda! It was a good day finishing up the workshops at Transform and also having an outing downtown to the market. Carla and Dale were very encouraged with the enthusiasm in final presentations of each teacher....
I love the aroma of cooking over a wood fire, and, even better, the aroma of sauteing onions over a wood fire. Reminds me of camping in the Colorado mountains. To the people here in Uganda, it is such a common smell, they are oblivious to it. In a...
Today we started a three day workshop on "Teaching with the End in Mind" at Transform. We got a late start - students were slow in arriving, but we started at 10:00 with only 4 students. By lunch time we had 9. Dale began the morning with an hour of...
We're all settled in at the Emperor Hotel until we travel to Teso on Thursday. We went to church with Godfrey, Olga and children at the New City Community Church. They meet in the beautiful chapel at the African Bible College located back on the other side...
Today is a day of transition. We moved from the William's to a hotel on the other side of Kampala. The hotel is in a quiet neighborhood not far from Godfrey's. After a two hour trip through Kampala, (probably only 15 miles as the crow flies). We first...
It has been a long but good day for our last day at Children Safe. Dale spoke all day using the "Peacemakers" materials. Dale has created a Power Point presentation for these materials, and after every slide, what he taught was re-taught in Luganda, the...
It is a beautiful day in Uganda! The sky is clear, there is a breeze, and the temperature is in the upper 70's. Today Dale started teaching a two- day workshop on the Tripp "Shepherding a Child's Heart" materials. After a time of singing, Nancy...
The teachers we are working with this week love to sing! We start the day singing three or four praise songs, then after each break we sing another song or two. Some are familiar to us, some are not, some are in their native language. But one thing...
Interesting day here in Kampala. Since we arrived, there have been regular power outages off and on after 7:00 each night. This morning, at 2:00 am the power went out, and never returned until about 8:30 this evening. This outage affected...