Kampala is the capital of Uganda. It’s a large, sprawling city that houses several million people. We avoid going to Kampala unless absolutely necessary. The last time we went was in October last year. We drove there and back the same day — more than 8 hours of drive time total. We had to get […]
They’ve been putting up a building in town for the last several months. We’ve watched the progress with interest and much speculation about what the building would house. They hung the sign on the building this week. Guess what? It’s the Amazon Building! Amazon is coming to Mbarara! 😉 We’re not getting our hopes up […]
We’d been planning for the dedication at Ngarama for weeks. Folks from the church passed out 500 invitations to the community. They insisted 500 people would show up. That made me nervous. I couldn’t imagine 500 people crammed onto the land there by the church. We planned for a simple service: a chance to greet […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentines Day isn’t celebrated the same in Uganda as it is in the US. In the US, as soon as Christmas is finished, stores put out their Valentine’s Day goods. The holiday is everywhere you look. The pressure is there for both those in relationships and those who don’t have a Valentine. […]
A couple weeks ago, we attended the 25th Anniversary celebration of some friends of ours here. They had a pastor from another town come and preach. His message was fantastic. I learned something new that day: The oldest part of the sugar cane is the sweetest. This fact made me consider: Have I gotten sweeter, […]
What would you do if you walked into the kitchen and discovered your husband had left one of these on the counter? 😉 In reality, getting a pig takes planning and forethought. It’s a huge, two day process and involves giving up most of my refrigerator space. We start planning for it a couple weeks […]
We followed this lorry full of chairs from a party and noticed there was a man perched on top of it all. He talked away on his cell phone, never noticing that at times his head barely cleared the power lines over the road. Do you think he was trying for a better signal? “Can […]
The building at Ngarama is completely finished, including a fresh coat of paint and the name of the church on its side. It boasts its own baptistry and a fancy new toilet with two stalls for women and two for men. A couple years ago we shipped a container full of books we’d collected from […]
Last week, we spent the week sorting through old books and papers. We reorganized our bookshelves and got rid of things we weren’t using, didn’t need, or that the kids had outgrown. In the process of all that, I came across one of the first “novels” I ever wrote. I’ve typed it up here for […]
We bought our Thanksgiving Turkey from a man who attends the church in Sangano. We didn’t intend to buy a turkey when we left for church that morning so we hadn’t come prepared to carry it home with us. Now, I know how to butcher a turkey. I didn’t know how when we got to […]