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We have actually been out here for almost 3 months, and here in south western Uganda, in Kabale, for almost 9 weeks. Life is certainly quite different to home! Cooking is a limited experience, on two gas rings, but these two gas rings are a real blessing! The laundry is a challenge, to coin a common phrase used here! No washing machine in sight, - only 3 large plastic bowls! And plenty of muscle power! The bathroom is wonderful though - all mod cons in there, but the shower is less of a shower and more of a dribble! So shower routines, and hair washing is all akimbo! In fact Jane has taken to washing her hair in one of the afore mentioned plastic bowls, as this is somewhat more successful! But the bliss of having a proper ushing toilet cannot be highlighted enough!

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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. (James 1:27)

Greetings to you all, dear friends.

Almost daily power-cuts and the occasional water-cut provide their own frustrations. We brought out with us a little clip-on reading light each, in preparation for the lack of electricity. The fun that we have had with nding the most enterprising place to clip them on has been quite a laugh! The best

Our house in Kabale Our Laundry

motor-bike taxis and even more push-bike taxis. We are getting to grips with a new spirit of boldness! We certainly need it here, in our daily encounters. There are two price systems here in Kabale - the Kabale price and the mzungu (white-man) price, where everything doubles. So, going in strong with what we know to be the actual price is the new norm! And to be fair, when the market trader, petrol cashier or whomever else, realises that we know, they give in and enjoy a giggle about it!

The house where we are staying is right in the middle of Kabale, and life here is certainly not quiet. It is very colourful, very noisy, many

Sleeping babes

Lunch queue

Some wonderful news...

Justina and her garden

Some wonderful news that we have is that we visited Justina, the lady who we raised the money for her land and her own house. What we found when we arrived was nothing short of a miracle! The house is completed apart from the mud oor, but more amazing was what surrounded the house - an acre of fully grown vegetable crops, young banana trees, her goat with twin kids and her chickens having multiplied. We were so taken back, and even more so when Justina greeted us, and just cried and cried as she hugged us, and she praised God, her Jesus who has been so faithful to her and answered her cries for help. Just this week we have heard that she now holds prayer meetings at her home, and that recently she had a group of 10 there for a whole weekend in fellowship and prayer, and that she said that it really was ok because she has the food to feed them with from her garden! Amazing!

No two journeys are ever the same!

The roads are something else down here. More pothole than road in a lot of cases. Each journey is an adventure - potholes, major roadworks, crazy African drivers and roaming animals. No two journeys are ever the same! We seem to have made friends with the ag ladies, who are the Ugandan equivalent to roadwork trafc lights, and in fact one of these ladies almost caused an accident when she

waved her green ag at us to greet us, and the lorry in the incoming trafc thought that she was signalling for him to move! Oops!

Butenga Community Project

As you know, we came out to Uganda with Worldshine Ministries, and have been across the the school in Rwentobo a number of times. In our weeks of being here, and during those visits, we really began to feel that we were not in the right place. To say we have had some tough times is not an overstatement. It has been hard. We have both really felt like packing our cases and coming home a number of times - well, to be honest there isn't too much to pack, as a lot of our stuff is still in suitcases as we haven't bought the furniture to unpack in to. But, joking aside, it has been hard. And three weeks ago we reached the point where we were so close to making the decision to giving up and coming home. But God wasn't having any of it. In His timing, He chose that moment to begin to make some very clear revelations to us about the work He has in store. And, through a week of turnabout we were reminded of our original calling to serve the poor and the needy, to reach the lost. We were led to a young man here called Didas, who has a small project on the shore of Lake Bunyonyi, and through a visit to his project we heard about the people who live on the far side of the lake and we felt incredibly drawn to visit them. So we did, and found a very Such need very poor people, living almost in isolation; a people that time has forgot, a lost community. They live in one of the most beautiful places that we have ever seen, but the contrast of the surrounding beauty with the starkness of their poverty is just so hard to see! We met people

A family with nothing

that are the poorest we have met yet in Uganda. One family of 6 (3 of their children have already died) live in two tiny rooms, all sharing one single wooden bed frame with no mattress, no blanket, just rags as a cover, and Lake Bunyonyi had nothing else to speak of. There are many others like them. And so we have a new work to do! We hope to remain a small part of the Worldshine school at Rwentobo; however alongside this we aim to set up the Butenga Community Project, with the hope to help these people to help themselves to help their community. More next time... Our love and blessings,

Jane & Alan.

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