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Wed: Kasangombe Bore Hole |
| Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
Ahhhh....a slow day! We slept in until 8am today and had a leisurely breakfast while we shared things we were learning.
We met Henry's daughter Angela. She has a beautiful voice, and a profound love for her God and her people. She dreams of opening a clinic/hospital where she can nurture the sick back to health while she encourages their faith and strengthens their soul thru her music. She is attending university now...what a great young woman!
We had lunch together at a nice place where we exchanged money (US Dollar to Ugandan schilling - 1845 to 1 currently). In a moment of weakness, I ate some salad...more on that later.
We drove about 40 miles north on a really great paved road and a couple miles on a dirt road to the community of Kasangombe. For those that haven't followed Emmaus Road Church for the last year, our community's early involvement in Uganda last year was to raise money to install a bore hole to bring clean water to a village. We found on out January 2006 that the community was Kasangombe. We figured that we could not come half way around the world and not visit this village!
We found that this particularly rural area is quite spread out. We looked for the World Vision office but could not locate it. We saw two bore holes and a rainwater collection tank that were likely World Vision installations. We took a few pictures at these bore holes, but more importantly, saw and met some of the people that have benefitted from World Vision's service to this community. Lots of joy on faces from children to adults -- I love that!
We went to a place called the Rock Garden for appetizers, and so our hosts (Charles, Henry, and Violet) could attend a wedding meeting. In Uganda, an engaged couple has several wedding meetings. Meetings might include people typically at an american wedding shower. However, they are involved and take responsibility for aspects of planning for the wedding. Then, they have a tongue-and-cheek business meeting with a chairman. One will say, "Mr. Chairman...I ask that the ladies wearing hats should sing a song while dancing for us, or pay 5,000 shillings." Then, those individuals would perform, or pay, or up the ante by making their own proposal. It sounds like a laugh riot...and all the money goes to pay for wedding expenses. Everyone comes with lots of small bills to partake in this fun. This way, the high cost of getting married is shared by your family and friends. Another example of living in community and interdependence. We in the US have sorely messed this up, I think.
Have a great thursday, friends! We will be enjoying a feast today at Charles' home this evening...he was given a goat by a grateful village he visited recently, and he wanted to share it with all of us.
Your servants,
Troy, Mike, and Paul
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