Praise God!

Anna from the Bundibugyo team came with Kim and me to Okari church a few weeks ago and it happened to be the day that the Sunday school was performing their songs for the church. It was a beautiful morning of children praising God by singing, dancing, and drumming!


After two years of WHM Sudan flying into and out of Mundri, last month we had our first flight that was diverted due to weather. Most of the team piled into our new Land Cruiser, and we headed to Maridi (about a 3 hour drive) to pick up Melissa and send off Scott, Larissa, Kim, Heidi, and Anna. I had never been to Maridi before and being a water engineer, I took the following two pictures of the water taps in Maridi. The top rectangular structure has 20 water taps at the same location! I didn't get to count the taps on the bottom circular structure, but it is an interesting design. Hopefully sometime soon, I will have the chance to go to Maridi to learn about their town water infrastructure. There were even some street lights in Maridi.



After picking up Melissa, we stopped for some lunch which consisted of linya and greens.


There is one type of local green which is very tasty, but also a bit slimy (notice the strings of slime between Acacia's fingers).

We praise God for His provision of the Land Cruiser and for Melissa's presence on our team!

After many weeks of waiting, the truck of supplies we purchased in Uganda finally arrived! It included supplies we needed to continue work on the water project at Hai Salaam. We called the staff of the water office and resumed our work days this week. The tank is now on top of the tower and all the pipe connections to the tank are completed thanks in large part to John who crawled in the rather small tank and worked on top of the water tower platform.


On the truck were also supplies for a solar power system for BNTC. Paul, the principal of BNTC, can now check his email and charge his computer from his office.


There are also lights in one of the classrooms which means the students can study in the evenings. They were so excited that they even sang a song and danced when the lights came on!

We praise God for the supplies that arrived from Uganda that have allowed us to continue work on the water project at Hai Salaam and install lights and power at BNTC. We also praise God for our partnership with the water office, the Hai Salaam community, and the BNTC staff and students.