As Kevin miraculously recovers from his heart accident (www.kwegisya.blogspotcom), CSB miraculously calms. There has been no further signs of student unrests since we spontaneously met with students for prayer for Kevin on Thursday night. And though many of the problems that led to the tension are still unresolved, students seem to have taken a higher road of negotiation and discussion. Amazing to see God’s timing play out here on the ground.

We have been able to give staff daily updates on Kevin and they have responded with appropriate amazement. As we described the shocks given to restart his heart and the ice used to cool his body and reduce the potential for brain damage along with the medications used to put him in a coma, staff listened in awe. But through our hopelessness we continued to pray with hope and expectation. We prayed that Joseph, Ruisa (Louisa), Nate and Savannah would not be orphans. And it is with incredible joy that we laugh as we hear that Kevin is not only walking, talking and eating again but that he is back to cracking jokes!!

Last night ended with the bell ringing to end preps, as usual, but with another sound as well. The sound of death in the town. Around ten pm the wailing started – loud, long and unnervingly hysterical. Many, many women crying out for someone dearly loved and not expected to die. It was this morning that we got the news, a former CSB staff member lost his wife in childbirth, effectively also losing his child. Grieving is intense, because this man had the money to pay for care to ensure this wouldn’t happen. Yet this is life in Bundibugyo; a cycle of life and death of sorrow and rejoicing and all of us walking along the edge of these things day in and day out. We pray for God’s kingdom to come.