We got power and holiday trip for the children

We have electricity. It has been a long wait, and it seems a bit surreal still. We were told that it would get here last year, but that obviously didn’t happen….. and now it’s a fact. The poles came first, after laying on the ground for a while… It takes longer here in Africa – and that has for sure been a fact coming to electricity.
First thing first, I had to charge my phone…which was a huge thing cuz now we don’t have to go anywhere to do that. And then secondly charging the music….=)

What is more beautiful than sitting in your room, watching the children play outside in the rain – and then see the promise of God showing up on the sky. The rainbow has been showing up here a lot lately. Something which I do believe, is God reminding us of His promises to us as his children. There has been some stuff going on here at the home, which has not been good for anybody. Witch craft and such, but those things have now been cleaned out and we see that the children have more freedom. Difficult to explain – but it’s very visible. Praise the Lord for all the things that he has done.

The 2 last weeks before the end of first term at school, the pre-school started. Are they not a beautiful bunch of children? They didn’t quite know what to do or where to strand the first day, but it didn’t take them very long to figure out things. The children can be heard from my room, when they are repeating after the teacher….A..B..C… and their 1…2…3… What an awesome things that we are able to see happening here at Kasozi Village.

On Saturday we left Kasozi village at 8 am to take the children back to see their relatives. Some have been counting days for the last week or so. The big news was told when Duncan (whom is the founder of Uganda Orphans Fund) told the children that they all were going back to visit their relatives. They jumped of joy, and screamed of happiness. And since that day they have been counting the days until the day of departure.

Like I’ve written before, I do have the privilege to go with some of the children back to visit their relatives. In the beginning I was supposed to go with the children to Gulu, which is up north in Uganda. But then the plans got changed, I left for Pader (which also is in the north), Rackoko for the first leg of the trip. Then I’m going to take public over to Gulu, which might be an interesting thing to do. Cuz up there the busses are not the most common vehicle, it might be a truck or something… I’ll let you know.

The trip went well, and the joy in the bus when they saw the phone tower in Rackoko was amazing. They were singing worship songs and it was very powerful. Most of the kids were met by their relatives on Saturday evening, only 4 of them stayed with me until the next day. But then their relatives also came. It was a time with lots of emotions, amazing. I’m visiting the children and their relatives in the IDP camp here in Rackoko, it’s awesome to be able to do that.

Please do remember us in your prayers during this time. The children are used to pray 2 times a day at the home, and some of their relatives are non believers. We pray that God will protect them and help the them to be witnesses to their relatives.