Gulu Week 2

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in Gulu for two weeks already. This last week has been full of a variety of activities. One of the most important happenings of the week is that the rains came!!! Starting on Tuesday, it has rained almost every night. Besides cooling off the extreme heat, the rain is needed for the people to grow their crops. Planting season has already been delayed a few weeks and everyone is anxious to get their seeds sown. Please pray for a consistent and good rainfall in the next weeks and months!

On Wednesday, Kacie and I joined a group called Sports Outreach for their midweek fellowship. Sports Outreach is a great organization that works in many areas: church planting, medical clinics, nursery school, farming. It seeks to go deep into the village and help communities become self sufficient by

them farming skills and equipping them to raise pigs or goats or cows. It’s a neat ministry and the people who work there are full of joy and passion for the Lord.

The midweek fellowship brought together people from three different communities in which Sports Outreach works. We sang and danced, prayed together, and listened to the sharing of the Word. Afterwards some of the women came together for some fun in football. Because the center operates a nursery school, some of the kids were still around waiting for their parents to come pick them. I took the opportunity to hang out with them for awhile. Communication between me and them was pretty hilarious. In my limited Acholi, I tried to convince them that my name was Kate and not Munu (white person). I was not successful :). But we had fun together.

This week I also helped Kacie do some health exams on some of the students at our Feeding Centre. Kacie took care of all the real medical things, but I enjoyed helping out where I could: measuring height, weight, etc. I even learned how to measure visual acuity with an eye chart!

Afterwards we enjoyed eating lunch together. Some students from the nearby schools come to the Feeding Centre each day for lunch.

On Friday, I was able to visit a couple of schools that our vocational students are studying at. This is Morris and he is studying Carpentry and Joinery at Minakulu Technical Institute. I enjoyed finding more information out about the school as well as seeing the different classrooms and training areas. Morris even showed me a chair that he is working on building