Snapshots from Daily Life

By Anthony:

We hope you enjoy these photos and videos from the last few months. First, here is a picture taken from Soroti's big market building, overlooking part of the city and Soroti Rock:

Here is a photo of Robert Okello, a PAG pastor we know well. He is one of the pastors we have been sponsoring to complete a degree online through Christian Leaders Institute. An in-person school in Uganda would have been preferable but it's hard for pastors to leave their churches and families for so long. He was very happy to receive the diploma for his Associate of Divinity degree! If you have wanted to get theological training but don't have time or money to go to a college in person, I recommend Christian Leaders Institute to you. And for those who don't need the actual degree, but still want more knowledge, you can still take classes online at their website for free.

This picture is self-explanatory:

Here is Sara with Beorn:

Here is a video of a hailstorm we experienced in Kampala:

Here is a video of our colleague Stephen explaining how he harvests and cooks "white ants" (we also eat them).

Sara reuniting with some of her Bible study youth during one of their term holidays:

Sara and Walter (one of our guards) harvested the first jackfruit the tree in our yard produced. It is a fruit Sara loves, but which I loathe and even the smell makes me want to leave the house!

We had to fix our vehicle at the mechanic recently. Our mechanic did not have one intern, but literally had around 30 student interns that were going to be with him for several weeks. It was quite a crowd of people working on our vehicle.

Sara's ducklings. It's an old picture, they have already grown up!

The only problem with ducks is that you have this every morning:

This is a group of women that Sara taught about chaya. It is one of the things she commonly teaches people about as she shares with them stems so that they can plant it. Slowly but surely she is spreading it around Uganda.

Sara roasting a marshmallow:

A nice photo Sara took near our house when it was raining in the distance:

This proverb makes us laugh and cry as it is truly how many Ugandans live. At least once a week, a random friend will tell us that you can't trust anyone. Therefore, we often teach about forming close friendships and how to build trust and keep confidentiality.

You never know what you will see on the road. Sara managed to get a picture of two precarious setups at the same time. There is a bicycle underneath all of those baskets:

Interesting creatures in hotel rooms:

I went to the burial recently of a friend, Pastor Opio Brian. This is the same pastor that Resonate made a video about. His brother is the Bishop of Apac PAG Pastorate and also our long-time friend. Brian had just graduated from TLT and he was going to be an excellent facilitator. He died of spinal tuberculosis after weeks of sickness. He was a man of solid reputation and integrity, a real servant of the church and of the community. He was well loved by many and I think there were around 2000 people at the burial. At the burial, they invited me to speak briefly, along with other TLT facilitators who had known Brian. His wife is now left with many young children. Please pray for the family. Here are some photos and videos from that burial. At the burial, they announced that another of the pastors from the same area had just passed away, from tetanus, after stepping on a nail.

When it rained there wasn't much some people could do except use their own chairs as umbrellas.