This morning I will fly out with Naomi, Quinn and Ashley for a brief day of medical tests in Kampala before driving back out by private hire tomorrow. We will meet David in Fort Portal tomorrow evening with the rest of the team and spend the weekend in Kichwamba, enjoying the beauty of seclusion, the pool and the animal park. We are saying goodbye to the Chedester family who have lived and worked in Fort Portal for many years as a support to our team. They are the ones who send us mail, veggies, and anything else we need from over the mountains. Before cell phones they were our radio contact with the rest of the world. They have met a huge need and blessed a tremendous number of lives. Naomi will lose another friend in their daughter, Rebecca, who is just a year or two younger than her and a kindred spirit. Rebecca is an adopted Ugandan and a real sweetheart, we are looking forward to the weekend with them.

Pray for clear results from my and Naomi’s medical tests that will help us move forward in decision making about whether to hang tight or look for more aggressive help. Thank God with us for airplanes, making this possible. We have not flown out since our first trip here over three years ago, but boy, in an emergency, it’s a real blessing.

Yesterday I gave the chapel lesson to students. It was my first time speaking to the entire group and many said the first time a woman had preached the chapel message (though I suspect Kevin may remember differently!) I talked about Albert Einstein’s quote: “God does not play dice.” It was a message on purpose and vision, the first of this year’s themes of discipleship. Students listened BEAUTIFULLY, there were so many smiles and engaged faces. We did dice games in the classroom discussions afterwards, and it was wonderful to see students connecting with the lesson and their own lives. Would you pray that our students would see purpose in their lives and have hope and vision for their future?

After teaching chapel we went for our staff meeting where I led the book study on Parenting. This week’s topic was empathy which was a very hard concept for all involved to integrate. We had fun doing a number of role plays of discipline situations. Again, pray for our work in integrating, counseling, empathy as well as consequences into discipline here. Pray for the many staff who need ministry as much as the students.

And continue to pray for our solar power which has reached really difficult levels of malfunctioning. David will stay behind for the first few days of our trip to try to wrap up some of the most troublesome loose ends for the school. He’s still sick, so pray him forward.

God is with us. Our Deliverer is with us, our Deliverer is ever drawing -near. We trust him with ourselves, our kids, our health, our fears,our students. And He has never let us down.