The real mark of successful mission practice is not so much what can be achieved with your involvement, but what can be achieved after your involvement. Over two months since we left Uganda it was a delight to hear by email from Pastor Alfonse that the Skills Centre re-opened today for the start of the second 8-month courses in carpentry & business skills and tailoring & business skills, and that there was a good turnout (the first courses finished at the end of July).
It's also been great to hear that the vegetables we planted in our garden before we left have been harvested to feed the children at Daycare, and that there was such a bumper crop from the banana and paw-paw trees planted by Graeme and Jenny Riddell (BMS missionaries who lived in our house before us), that they fed the children in Daycare and at Alpha School, and Alfonse's family!
The building of a row of shops for rent at Kasese Central Baptist Church (KCBC), which began in April with members of St Andrew's Street Baptist Church and KCBC breaking sweat alongside each digging foundation trenches has also progressed. The walls are now standing up to ringbeam level.
Prayer Requests:
- Give thanks for the hard work of Pastor Alfonse, Pastor Alex, Isaiah and other members of KBAC-DC for managing the skills centre and Daycare, and doing all the procurement, recruiting, accounting, and other tasks required to finish the first courses and start the second courses.
- That the new students will work with enthusiasm and that the staff will inspire them to transform their lives in every sense.
- For protection of project assets, staff and students from theft, violence, fire, flooding or ill-health - all of which are prevalent in Acholi Quarter.
- For the shop-building project at KCBC, which, when completed, will give the church much-needed income.
- Give thanks that baby Jonah (4 weeks) and Bethan are both doing very well, and that we are on track to return to Uganda on 11 October.
