Poked and Prodded and getting Prepared

Yesterday, three of my fellow Uganda-mates and I went to the Miriam Hospital in Providence to get all of our immunizations up to date. FUN.

Shots have never been a great experience for me. There's always the mental build-up and insurmountable fear that creeps in. But this time I knew I had people praying for me and can honestly say that God filled me with so much peace. It was great. No tears, little fears.

Three shots later and the only obstacle between me and Uganda is two final exams and jury duty. Yes, two years into my American stay and they already tagged me for jury duty...this should be interesting...

In other news, Tom has updated us about possible projects we'll be working on in Uganda that could use your prayer! Ready for the break-down?

-While we're in Uganda, we are partnering with local university students knows as FOCUS students. Please pray for real bonding and relationships to grown between us as we travel and work together.

-While we work with the NGO Come Let's Dance in Kampala, we'll be helping out with the New Start Center for boys. This includes tutoring, cooking, cleaning and learning from the boys.

-Child Voice International is in Lukodi village, just north of Gulu, and there we will be doing a LOT: Construction on the school, beginning an adult education center and planning a Women's Conference in June. We'll also be doing a lot with the youth there and coordinating Vacation Bible School.

Hopefully those are some more tangible things for you to pray over. We will have to be very flexible, so we do not know which projects we will see through to completion, but we trust that God is going to use us in his timing, in his plan.

Countdown: twenty-two days. Let's do this.

I'll leave you with a snippet from Psalm 10 that hits the mark for me re: Uganda:

"You hear, O Lord, the desire of the
afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen
to their cry,
defending the fatherless and the
oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more."