goodbye uganda.

i wanted to start out by saying that this will be the last blog entry being here in Uganda. it has been such an amazing experience and God has taught us so many things...especially that we need to trust Him and that His will may not be our own will. With that...we are all packing right now because we are flying home tomorrow morning. We will be heading to the airport at 6 am and will arrive back in Chicago at 6:15 pm on May 20th.

It has been such a rollercoaster ride with emotions and decisions the last 3-4 days. It is definitely difficult for each one of us because we do not want to leave almost a week early.
But...God has his way of working things out. We had originally been scheduled to go to an orphanage on Saturday..Mama Mary runs the orphanage, but it did not look like it would work out. Tomorrow we were going to drive up and go on a safari which is 6 hours away, so it would be a couple days that we would be gone.

It ended up that after our VBS today, we were able to go to Mama Mary's and spend 3 hours there playing with the kids and doing crafts and singing. Those kids really touched our hearts. It was extremely difficult leaving them knowing how little they had and that we may not be able to ever see them again.

So basically...God worked it out that we could do every opportunity to serve here that we were given. We are missing the safari and another day at a village church...but we got to really show love to so many children here in Kampala. It has been an incredible trip and experience even if it was less than 2 weeks.

Pray for peace and comfort in our hearts. We know that God's will and plan will prevail and is..but it is difficult to understand at the same time. Pray for safety on our flight and while we stay overnight in London. Pray that we continue to unite as a team even in difficulties and our travel time.

Before I go back to packing...I wanted to share about our amazing VBS experience. Yesterday was our first day and at the beginning of the day we had about 30 kids. We would sing songs, teach them a lesson about a bible hero...do crafts..play games...and then come back together and go through it all again after learning about another hero. By the time we all came back again less than an hour later we had over 100 kids. By the end of the day we had close to 200. Today was about the same if not more. Those kids had so much joy and love to give, but yet had so little. Nothing. It was humbling and saddening to see at the same time-but also brought me so much joy. I think i can speak for most of our team when I say that this experience was amazing and I am so so happy that we were able to go for two days.

PLUS--after our skit at the school last week and the chapels we did ...at least 2 people that we know have accepted Christ. God is at work at that school and that is something we need to be so thankful and praise him for. Pray that God would work in all of the lives that we encountered and even our driver Julius!

Thank you for all of your support and prayer. We will be home soon!!