Field Update!

Hello from Jinja, Uganda!

Our time has been packed full, and the internet has been pretty weak out here- so maybe don't count on any updates through the week. I'll do my best. :)

Since arrival, I had the chance to see a few loved ones in Kampala. We went to my old church, Ggaba Community Church on Sunday morning and I saw many of the Doors family. We drove up to a cheering Angela, and I was welcomed by a smiley Mallory hug. The boys didn't know I was coming, so it was fun to see their surprised faces. Richard (age 16ish) turned in disbelief to Angela and said, "Is that the real Auntie Sam? It can't be!"

Sunday afternoon we left for Jinja and have spent our days with Amazima ministries. We met with Katie and Brad (some of the ministry leaders), and tromped around on their land talking about dreams and visions for their new secondary school. It is beautiful out here! The Amazima land especially is full of bountiful mango and banana trees, yams, and other wild growing food. Today the architecture team spent time digging into the details with Amazima leaders. The civil and structual engineering teams spent most of their day out on site taking structual readings on the soil and digging holes for perc tests. I spent my day traveling around Jinja town with a sweet Ugandan man named Andrew. He kindly helped translate as we went in to many shops and gathered data and pricing for electrical construction materials.

Our EMI project team has been fun, full of new and old faces. I look forward to working with them all as we continue to develop a site master plan for Amazima ministries secondary school.

Also, I can't wait for my few days to be spent in Kampala. I will be spending precious time with Doors and other old friends. ANND my new housemate from Kansas City will be joining us in Kampala! Christine is awesome and has some crazy cool connections from spending a few summers in Uganda. She and I decided to simplify our travel by having a traveling buddy on the way home. We also are praying about doing some exciting ministry stuff together back in KC and want to spend some intentional time with Doors Ministries in light of that.... If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please catch up with me when I get home. I would love to share more! It's kinda crazy and kinda totally exciting!

SOOO, that's all. Have a nice day. And good night :)
SForbes