Finally at home...away from home

Made it to Arua! We're currently at a internet cafe that is an hour walk from our home. Pretty crazy. Next time I'm hiring a bike or boda boda!

We're working with a man named Leviticus, who is the director of youth for the diocese, which covers pretty much all of Uganda that lies west of the Nile. We're doing day-long and overnight stays with him at different parishes around the closest districts of the diocese. We're staying on the property owned by the diocese main office, and the whole area around is a little community of people who work for the diocese, and also schools, a health center, and a guest house. Every time I walk around the property I see something new. But it feels very safe, and we're already getting comfortable and familiar with the area.

It's hard because it feels so right to be here, but it's so hard to be away from home. Walking around the compound and taking cold showers and not wearing make up just feels so natural, and like it should be. These people are so focused on prayer, it's awesome. And they're prayers are right on. There's such a healthy dependancy on God that I've already been learning from. The weird thing is that they are very materialistic too, just in the opposite way. We try to assure them that the US is spiritually in just as much trouble, if not more, because of the spiritual death among the all the wealth. Our houses seriously look like mansions, and thinking back to all that stuff I have and all the things we're going to buy for our home someday just about makes my stomach sick. It's going to be a struggle to know how to adapt to life now that I know what it's like to live on the other side. I'm sure that will only get harder as time passes.

Please continue to pray for us. We need support through the Lord from you as we really begin the busy part of our ministry soon and are feeling a little disconnected because of the lack of contact with home. But the Lord is faithful, and already doing many things in us and around us in the midst of our brokenness.

Awadayfo!

Jess