The Joy of Christmas

Last Friday was a day to remember. Absolutely a day that had the Lord was smiling and rejoicing. Don’t know exactly how many kids...more than 250 (a few flukers!) K – P4 kids were here in the CoG ministry centre for the 1st annual Christmas party......they all played, danced, enjoyed food and drink, ate cake, danced some more, heard the story about Christ and baby Jesus and the JOY that He brings to us.....and even welcomed ‘Father Christmas/Santa Claus”.....aka one of our mentor staff.

Wow....what a day...chaotic at times...a few 'bumps and bruises'....but I can’t think of anything that’s a greater blessing than to see our kids being loved on and getting a glimpse of what baby Jesus brought to this world. As we heard one little girl express to her CoG mentor..."I'm going to go tell Ja Ja (her grandmother) that we don't need another Christmas cause we just had the real one".

These are the times of real JOY.

"Two down- Two to go"

We were all so happy to see Phillip when he arrived at the Entebbe airport last Wednesday evening. After a very long flight he was greeted with lots of smiles and hug's from Paul, Cassidy and I. Phillip's been keeping himself busy since he arrived - trying to catch a monkey, honestly, I just think the monkeys are too smart. Phillip, Joe and Cassidy spent almost 6 hours of their Sunday afternoon trying different traps they had made. In the end - no monkey. We'll see.............

Now we all eagerly await Andrew & Meagan's arrival on the 21st of December. The next two weeks will be very busy around here. Schools out and there is lots going on. VBS in the villages of Masesse and Walukaba, a holiday tutoring program here at the office, planning our children's Christmas party.................

Expect to see lots of stories this week.....