New Year

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.  ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


Every man should be born again on the first day of January.  Start with a fresh page.  Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


We have faith in this year that positive changes happen, good plans are being implemented and Goals are accomplished! 

Miriam Travels

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.  ~Aldous Huxley


The traveler sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.  ~G.K. Chesterton


We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  ~Hilaire Belloc


Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye 

Miriam, welcome to your Uganda!!!!

Xmas

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!  ~Author Unknown


Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...
~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Newsletter

December

Happy birthday

Dear Christine of KACHEP,
Sending you smiles every moment of your special day.
Warm and special wishes from us.

A very happy birthday.

November

prayerletter November

chickens for widows

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People struggle to get enough protein in their diet or even to have money for necessities like salt or soap. The Karamoja Chicks Project is helping to address this problem. Each woman who is selected by their own community gets 10 hens, just when they are ready to start laying eggs, which yield 10 eggs a day for a year. The chicks have been raised from one day old, and have been lovingly cared for, fed and vaccinated. The women make their own cages and exchange 25% of the eggs to get high quality feed. The rest of the eggs can be eaten or sold for other needs. 

Chicks 

Prayers needed

I have some strange ear infection going on that's affecting my hearing and balance. I'm in Nairobi under the care of a gifted ENT doctor whose handling the fungal infection that's wildly inflamed my ear canal but is baffled by my inner ear problems that blew up when I was diving along Kenya's coast last week. I've been sleeping nonstop for 16 hours and covet your prayers and strength. 

Thanks Jean

Turkana

Climate change in Turkana

Turkana people are basically the Karamojong of Kenya

Lake Turkana, Kenya (CNN) -- Richard Leakey has spent a lifetime exploring Kenya's Turkana Basin searching for the origins of man.
Each layer of sediment, says the paleoanthropologist and founder of the Turkana Basin Institute, helps to tell the narrative of human evolution.
"You get the whole story of life represented going back from the present right back to the beginnings of an ape that has two legs as opposed to four," Leakey said.
"So the whole story of humanity you can actually trace to the Turkana Basin."
But Leakey says these ancient hills tell another story, a history of climactic changes that gave rise to some species and led to the extinction of others.

KARIMOJONG

Its interesting how they name the month:

ENGLISH	KARIMOJONG	THEIR MEANINGS
January	Lokwang	No activity because it’s so hot the sunshine is at its peak.
February	Lodunge	When this month comes to the end, it’s the end of bad season(End of drought)
March	Lomaruk	The beginning of cultivation & harvesting mushrooms that is where this month gets the name lomaruk meaning mushrooms.
April	Titima (locoto)	This is the sorghum is grown to about one feet. Some people are weeding and it’s the same month called locoto meaning mud. Some people are still digging / plaughing. There is rain and a lot of mud.
May	Yeliyel	Crops are flowering mostly sorghum / maize and some weeding of beans / G.nuts is taking place (but the word comes from flowering)
June	Lomodokogec	The mingling sticks are stained with fresh food and that means satisfaction (it’s the time people are eating fresh food).
July	Losuban	A lot of parties, beliefs are celebrated.
August	Lotyak	Cutting or harvesting rids for building granaries and houses.
September	Lolobae	This is when antelopes are breeding and we have enough of them. Sorghum is also still in the garden with same colors like the antelopes.
October	Lopoo (Akilem)	Meaning the seasons of harvesting crops from the garden.
November	Lorara(Akiram)	Means threshing and winnowing. (saubermachen)
December	Lomuk	Means threshing and winnowing. (saubermachen)

Places	People	Meaning
Kabong	Dodoth	Meaning York (Egg York)
Kotido	Jie	Meaning fighter
Nabilatuk	Pian	Breaking of cows. I think when these people were occupying this place most of their cows would get broken, may be because of hunger or other things.  Pian Mean people with easy hearts an. With low tempers.

Gifts that give

Equipping Nomadic Evangelists

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Your gift helps equip nomadic evangelists to "story" the Bible using oral methods to share the gospel more directly and reproducibly. These Bible stories and associated songs are spread throughout the Karamojong Cluster - across 15 tribes that share the same language and lifestyle in four countries.

A hand-crank cassette player will allow communities to listen to Bible stories without electricity. A quality cassette recorder or MP3 recorder will provide a way to create a master tape of Bible stories and songs for duplication. A cassette duplicator will multiply the master tape and get it into the hands of the communities to use in the hand-crank tape players. more on: donate

Gifts that give

giving goats

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Help Widows
The people of the Karamoja region of Uganda love cattle and they will fight to the death to get more or protect the few they have. Cattle, however, belong to men. Women rely on sheep and goats. You can help a needy widow by donating a female goat.

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Team Retreat

Picture of our team retreat
Joshua, Dr Jean, Tom, Mukisa,  Christine (holding her 4th born -
Ilokul -2nd daughter, Teko standing in front) and Mr. Loumo 

Gifts that give

When you choose a gift for your friend or family member from the CVM Gift Guide, you are not only blessing your loved one, you are also making an impact that transforms lives! 

give an animal

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Chickens
One hen lays one egg a day for one year, providing food for widows in Uganda as well as a source of income when they sell the eggs.


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