If a picture is really worth a thousand words, then maybe these photos will buy me some time to write the rest of my reports.
This is a young (maybe 8 years old) girl who is babysitting for a young infant. The child is tied to her back in the traditional way, with a blanket. When [...]
We’re still tracking down luggage, but we seem to be getting back to the normal routine. And that means Mark is blogging (and making up for not blogging for a while to boot!). He’s done a great job of describing our travel, our arrival, our accommodations, the worship service, the town of Yei and the [...]
Here’s an unedited MP3 of some of the young people in Yei singing. It’s a about 3.3 MB in size, but worth it to hear!
Listen to it here.
We’ll post some more of the music that we recorded after we get it cleaned up.
We are home! Thanks so much for all your prayers. We have been up for about 28 hours now, and are ready to hit the sack (but I wanted to get a few pictures up to hold you until we get a chance to really decompress and write about our time). Actually, the team is [...]
Greetings from London! The team metup at Newark’s Liberty International Airport yesterday and begin the long trek to Yei, Sudan. We had a relatively uneventful first leg to London. The only hiccup (that we know of) is that half the team was able to check their baggage on through to their final destination (Entebbe, Uganda) [...]
As hurricane season begins, I am reminded of how the eye of the storm presents an eerie peaceful calm between the vicious attacks of the storm.
Last night was a peaceful opportunity to just kick back and relax for Mark and I. We set aside packing and travel details and traveled across the river to [...]
Today I traveled to Washington, D.C., to acquire the Ugandan visas for our trip. I left at 6 am, just as we started to hear the news about the attacks in London. Fortunately, I did not have trouble getting in and out of DC or finding the embassy for Uganda. In fact, all [...]