After too long away, we are home! Week 1 recap
Walking through security at the first airport finally made it real…I was going home! After 18 months away….stepping foot on my Ugandan home was only 24 hours of travel away! Traveling in COVID times has its perks, wearing a mask for 24 hours straight was not fun…but...
Week Three + 2 June – 10 June
My home visit assistant...Shanita This week we wrapped up home visits and had a staff meeting between PY staff and our partner organization St. Emmanuel CDI. We talked through issues with some of our kids and with some of the schools our kids attend. We discussed...
Week Two 26 May – 1 June
Home visits are so important to us, and our families, we love spending time in their homes with them This week started home visits….we have over 300 home visits to complete. It’s a lot of work but it is something that we feel is important. It’s so important to be able...
Week One 18 May – 25 May | 2019
After 24 long hours of travel we have arrived. This trip is a little different than the past few years, first off we do not have a team coming, its just me and mom for the first time in awhile. Secondly, we are starting our trip in Jinja instead of Kampala, we have...
Guest Post: The little things – Teona
Until this week, I never really recognized how special it is to take time for the little things. While on the plane ride to Uganda, I met an incredible man named Emmanuel who told me that as a follower of Christ, it’s not just about sharing the Gospel message but...
Guest Post: What it means to be a child of God – Nicole
Fun fact about Ugandans: You never really know any of their ages. This is because it’s rude to ask, and a bunch of them don’t even know their own age. Compare that to how we think about ages in America. The activities we participate in, responsibilities we either...
Guest Post: The day I’ve been waiting for
Today was the day I have been waiting for for years and I didn’t even know it. One of the major reasons I came on this trip was to meet my sponsor child. I knew I would be able to, but I didn’t know when. It was our first day in the village, we were greeted by a...
Guest Post: Day 1 for the Uganda Team
Getting in at 2 am and getting up at 7:30 am has all of us a little groggy. By all accounts though this team is pushing through. We met up at Breakfast and got to meet our Brazilian team members for the first time. Raquel and Rodrigo are awesome, what language...
Guest Post: The Journey Home
Our team has arrived, and we're letting them take over our blog posts while they are here! Today John shared his "journey home". To say that I have been looking forward to getting back to Uganda would be an understatement. I told the people of Musima on our last day...
Day 14 – 7 July 2018
Today was a day off, well sort of. Its something that we learned a couple of years ago, that we needed to take time off when we are here. When we first started coming we worked 7 days a week, because we always felt our time here is too short. But friends of ours here...
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