VBS Day Two

Today was a short day with it being Sunday. We started VBS at 10:30 with worship with just the young ones. Junior and Senior High were in with the adults for worship. The kids especially liked the participatory songs.

Someone needs to tell Jerry that the puppets were really a hit. The kids love them.

We took our group to the beach volleyball court for recreation and the daily bible story. Solicitors weren’t far away, wanting to sell us camel rides and other recreation to supplement our simple games with the kids.

Jonathan was our little one in the 4-6 year olds who suffered the most severe separation anxiety yesterday. Today he was an entirely different child, and even strung his own penne pasta beads on his belt of truth each of the younger children made today. We had a two year old that joined the 4-6 year olds today as well. Mary Ann walked with her all day yesterday, and started again this morning, but when she joined her older sister (sitting to the right of Jonathan), she was much more settled.

After the morning VBS, the group got together in front of the hotel for the Uganda Tanzania Branch Group Photo. Casual affair, gathering the group up, and having the photographer stand on someone’s vehicle to take the shot.

Internet connectivity continues to be a challenge. The hotel occasionally loses power, the hotel internet loses connectivity to the outside world daily it seems, from the public computer folks have been having trouble getting to Gmail, and we buy wifi in hour-long blocks for 200 shillings (about $2.50) and the block seem to expire after a single 20 minute usage when the business center is closed – it’s just been a challenge. We’re trying our best to keep everyone informed, but we aren’t in Kansas anymore, Toto.







Becky was back among us today after two days down with food poisoning. I think we’re all doing pretty well right now, but keep praying for us to keep our health, flexibility and patience, and teaching ability.