Subject: Monday in Gulu
Well we arrived in Gulu today. It was a travel day for us as we drove the 2 hrs from Jinja to Entebbe. We flew to Gulu on a 19 passenger twin prop plane and landed safely at the Gulu International Airport. [Tongue is firmly in cheek]
Our hosts were waiting for us. Rev David, Paul Lakuna, Dr. Moses, and Pastor Titus and Soloman are all with the United Methodist Church.
We got situated in our hotels and went to visit the World Vision Children of War Rehabilitation center. This is a special place for me. I first heard about the war and the child soliders from an article about the center in a World Vision magazine. We got a chance to tour the center and met with the director Mark. Mark is a hero of mine. How he does what he does all day with love, grace, hope, faith, and humor I will never know. He invited us to come join the staff on friday morning [the day we head home] for devotions and to share. This is very exciting as we will get a chance to encourage the workers. We found out that Pastor Titus, who is one of our hosts, was once at the center after being rescued. He is going to share his story with us while we are here.
We also got to see the land where the UMC in Gulu purchased land for a training center and guest house. This was funded by Central. They plan to use the guest house to generate money to be put back into the ministry. And the training center will house their office and they will train pastors for churches in the villages. Very cool day for sure.
Here is our plan for our time in Gulu:
Tomorrow [tuesday] we will be setting up a clinic and child outreach in the IDP camp of Kock Goma. We will be there all day. This is a camp we visited last year.
Wednesday we will be setting up a clinic in the IDP camp of Kock Lii. Jody, Keith, and I are excited with this because on the scouting trip last year a man said we would never be back. We hope he is still there.
Thursday we will be spilt up for most of the day. A clinic will be set up at IDP camp Kock Chorom all day and one team will go to the village of Opit which we visited last year. They will be sharing the gospel and praying with people. This village is where our host Pastor Titus leads a church.
On friday we will have devotions and share with the staff of World Vision and do some shopping in the market and our plane leaves Gulu for Entebbe at 2pm. We arrive in Entebbe at 3pm and meet Eastor Edward who has some of our bags!!! He will take Tamara, Charles, and Libby back to Jinja where they will spend 2 weeks with him in ministry and then they go to Tanzinia to spend time with Charles Wiggins and his wife. Please be in prayer for them as they minister.
The rest of them team will hang out with pastor edward until our plane leave for Nairobi, Kenya at 8:40pm. Them on to Brussels, Belgium where we have a 5 hour layover. Them on the Chicago and then home some time saturday night. Not sure of arrival time but will email that when I talk to Jody.
Not much excitement today. The bus got stuck at the site of the land purchase, but it got out without too much work.
We are excited to be here, but we request prayer. Many on the team are physcially sick and need some healing. Sinus and stomach issues. We need prayers for the childrens team. The estimate are 200 kids at each camp. They are a little overwhelmed. We will have 2 Ugandan doctors seeing patients at each clinic in addition to our team, so prayers for the phamarcy as this can get bottle necked. Also pray all goes smoothly. It is a little more desparate in Gulu; We do not have enough time, doctors and medicines to see every person that comes.
Also... Some of the team would like to send out messages to family to have your cell phones ready. We have purchased 2 cell phones here and they will be calling to talk because we all miss our families!! [I am supposed to make sure and give a big hint hint to Aprils husband].
We appreciate and love you all. Thank you for letting us come and minister. And thank you for your support and prayers. We need them to finish strong in this good work.
Another prayer request..... Plenty of water. We have struggled with adequate water each day. It is hot and we are working long days.
Talk to you tomorrow. Time for sleep.
Shalom
Crt
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Hello!
I know this is somewhat of an odd way to be contacting you, but I'm a junior in college right now hoping to work with an NGO in Uganda this summer that provides therapy for former child soldiers. I found the World Vision website that gives a little information about its Children of War center in Uganda, but no contact information. I am hoping to somehow get in contact with the people there, and see if I can arrange for an internship, and in my search for contact information came across your blog. I was wondering, since you visited the center, whether you had the director, Mark's email, or another way for me to get in contact with the people there. I would be so appreciative of your help.
God bless,
Michelle
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