This morning we went to the church that Josh and Mandy generally attend and where we went some of the time last year. So we were welcomed as old friends by Pastor Francis and a few of the people there. Josh has started a Children's ministry there so all the kids leave after the singing and offering just like most of our churches in the USA. They have improved some in the use of their small keyboard as accompaniment to singing but it still seems to decrease the natural rhythm of their singing.
Friday we had our first marriage Bible Study group. We had 7 people attend. Most of them are married but only one woman was there since the others were home or in the village taking care of the children. This changes some of what we had planned to do since we had hoped to have the couples talk about what was learned and how the lesson would impact their marriage. However, the discussion was better that we expected since Ugandans are not used to talking part in a discussion especially when the white people are leading it and they think we are somehow experts. All the questions we expected came up in this first lesson - dowry, sex before marriage, number of children and others.
Saturday we helped sort a large number of donated items into smaller amounts to be distributed by a couple churches. That was a big job and good to have finished. John, Tim, Josh and Matt played some 2-2 basketball and found out they are not in as good of shape as they all would like. But it was fun. Matt is a young man who is visiting on a vision trip to see if he wants to spend a year working with the team here in Soroti.
Tomorrow we are going to Sipi Falls for a couple days. This is a park near Mbale where you can do some hiking. We will be going with Tim and Angie and their kids. The temperature is supposed to be cool because it is in the mountains.
That's all for now.
