Another God moment

Just gotta tell you about this one.

We spent a few days in northern Uganda at a beautiful national park called Murchinson Falls. Beautiful place as you can tell from these pictures.

The power of the Nile river as it descends down a very narrow gorge is breathtaking.........

But the story is about another God moment. We had some issues with our vehicle....

hired a park ranger one morning to guide us on a beautiful early morning game drive.

Then we spotted 2 young male lions and a mature male lion out hunting and turned off the car so not to scare him....it wouldn't restart.

God had another vehicle just in front of us to help jump start ours again, and fortunately our guide had a big shotgun just in case the lions "disturbed" us while we changed the battery..........

The next day as we started our return journey out of the park, once again had to jump start...and keep the engine running the entire day...including crossing the river nile in this VERY Ugandan ferry.....

As we left the park on a very 'dirt road', made 'last minute' decision to visit top of Murchinson Falls, so we turned off the main road 14 km...with a number of warning lights flashing on the instrument panel!!
As you can imagine, we are not in an ideal place to get "stuck".

We get to the top of the falls and pull into a 'parking lot'...meet 2 'retired' couples from South Africa who are on a 20000k, 3 month road trip around Africa retracing the steps of their great-grandfather a Christian missionary to Africa in the late 1800s.  With their grandfather's diary in hand, they stopped at every village he had ministered to so many years ago. They stopped at Murchison Falls just to dry out some camping equipment.

Just so happened that one of our engine belts had broken...with the only 1 remaining 'just barely'. Our new found 'good samaritan' friends came to the rescue. Mike was a mechanic.....'just so happened' he had 2 spare belts that he had replaced before they started their trip...and instead of throwing them away as usual, he tossed them in his truck for the journey.

After a circle of prayer with our new friends....witnessed by a non-Christian couple from Netherlands who 'just happend' to be there passing through....we left there with restored engine and our new friends from the Netherlands, dropping them off in a town about half way back to Jinja. 

Without the good samaritans, we probably would have been 'stuck' somewhere in rural uganda with a broken down vehicle....Not good.......

But the Lord had His plan all along....He 'engineered' the journey such that a few folks who love Jesus connected with just the right experience and equipment to keep us safe and secure in our long journey home.

Another day - Another journey............

Back to Jinja

We finally made it back to Uganda after an unimaginably long journey to get here. After spending two days in New York and another 24 hours in Dubai, we arrived and were greeted by 20 guests from the U.S..
Last week we joined the team as they spent their days teaching, doing crafts, singing, dancing, playing, ect........with the students at Salt & Light Academy. It was heartwarming to see the kids smiling faces as we drove up each morning with our bus full of Mzungu's.
Here were a few of the highlights from the week:

Watching the kids read the books the team brought over was a joy.........

The students learning to brush their teeth and hold a toothbrush, many for the very first time. 

One of my favorite things was seeing the kids faces light up as we turned on the music and taught them new songs with hand motions..........

Playing peek-a-boo....Too cute!