Hill overlooking YWAM and Global Theological Seminary
Alair making bracletts with the girls
At Busoga High School overlooking Golbal Outreach and Lake Victoria.
Nico wanted to go down the zip line.
Games
Challenge Course
Challenge Course
Pacific Family
King Fisher Swimming
Playing musical chairs
The building Caleb helped construct in 1994
Inside the seminary building
April was a full month. We hosted a team from the UK who ended up staying in Uganda almost a week longer than expected because of the volcanic eruption that shut down all European airports and cancelled so many flights around the globe. They like all the teams who grace our Centre, were a blessing to New Hope as well as to us personally.
The last week in April we received the with great anticipation the long awaited approval from the High Court of Uganda to be legal guardians of Nicolas- how exciting to have official documents in our hands at last! Now we can begin the passport and U.S. visa process for him and start all over from square one with Nathaniel. The whole process is challenging, and seems to take forever, but no amount of work is too much when it comes to your children, nor can it compare to the cost paid for our own adoptions as sons and daughters of the Father, brothers, sisters, and now co-heirs with Christ! (Ephesians 1:3-6, Galatians 4:6, Romans 8:17)
We had a great time with our family group (Pacific Family) last week as we traveled to Jinja for a holiday. The students are on a school break and once a year our family group takes a few days away from New Hope to enjoy time together apart from studies and regular work. The first day we took the kids to a place called the King Fisher Hotel for swim time. Swimming is a special event as many of them have never stepped foot in a pool and the ones who have only have done so on family vacation! After that we headed to the YWAM Discovery Center. The youth camp staff had several activities planned for the children, the highlight being the challenge course. The family vacation was a great time to continue building relationships on a more one to one basis. Nico and Nate enjoyed the extra attention they received from our family.
One unexpected side trip came about as we were sitting on the veranda the first night. Caleb thought this place to be very familiar. He asked a YWAM staff member where Global Theological Seminary was. The staff said it was the just next property over. The following day we drove to the seminary to check out the progress. In 1994 Caleb spent a summer in Jinja with Teen Missions International working on a building that would be used for training pastors. This organization was called Global Outreach. It had been nearly 16 years ago that Caleb was last there. And it was exciting to seeing the building that he had helped start to build, now not only in its completion, but several other buildings in addition being used by eager teachers and students of the word of God!
The last week in April we received the with great anticipation the long awaited approval from the High Court of Uganda to be legal guardians of Nicolas- how exciting to have official documents in our hands at last! Now we can begin the passport and U.S. visa process for him and start all over from square one with Nathaniel. The whole process is challenging, and seems to take forever, but no amount of work is too much when it comes to your children, nor can it compare to the cost paid for our own adoptions as sons and daughters of the Father, brothers, sisters, and now co-heirs with Christ! (Ephesians 1:3-6, Galatians 4:6, Romans 8:17)
We had a great time with our family group (Pacific Family) last week as we traveled to Jinja for a holiday. The students are on a school break and once a year our family group takes a few days away from New Hope to enjoy time together apart from studies and regular work. The first day we took the kids to a place called the King Fisher Hotel for swim time. Swimming is a special event as many of them have never stepped foot in a pool and the ones who have only have done so on family vacation! After that we headed to the YWAM Discovery Center. The youth camp staff had several activities planned for the children, the highlight being the challenge course. The family vacation was a great time to continue building relationships on a more one to one basis. Nico and Nate enjoyed the extra attention they received from our family.
One unexpected side trip came about as we were sitting on the veranda the first night. Caleb thought this place to be very familiar. He asked a YWAM staff member where Global Theological Seminary was. The staff said it was the just next property over. The following day we drove to the seminary to check out the progress. In 1994 Caleb spent a summer in Jinja with Teen Missions International working on a building that would be used for training pastors. This organization was called Global Outreach. It had been nearly 16 years ago that Caleb was last there. And it was exciting to seeing the building that he had helped start to build, now not only in its completion, but several other buildings in addition being used by eager teachers and students of the word of God!
