forgot to tell you about Okotoot - the village we story at and have started spending nights...
so - we, Tom, Miriam and me - together with evangelist Joshua and Nabur who helps out with the chicks project, headed out there while the moon was full to once again story around the campfire and enjoy the rhythms of Karamoja. when we arrived, we found fewer people than normal - and those we found we nervous.
as the story came out - we realized the army had come to their village earlier in the day, searching for stolen cattle. they found none, but they did find an AK-47 and a number of rounds. more than 20 men were rounded up, beaten and now are in jail.
pray for the women and children left behind who are confused and scared. pray for the misunderstandings to clear up and for the men to be released. its currently illegal to have guns in Karamoja, but since the army only found one in their search - its safe to say that the gun, whom the chairman owns, is for protection. people here are shook up, even Moru Anna of the chicks project got affected as the army threw down her granaries and broke all the eggs that have been laid this week.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Good news
From Jean on 7.7
Good evening, better news- we've been praying for the 6 shepherds who never came home after their 100 + cattle were stolen. Yesterday Valentina's 10yr old son Laki crawled home - WOW!!!!!. He was severely beaten especially scrawny legs left in the bush over 30kms away- he made it painfully home.
The joy mixed with overwhelming concern sprang from Valentina's face and voice and she relayed her good news.
Pray for healing inside and outside for the families affected. A sign of relief has settled here but there lingers sadness.
The other good news, after almost a year, we can finally come out of our tents, the roof is done! we will move our stuff in this weekend just in time.
Good evening, better news- we've been praying for the 6 shepherds who never came home after their 100 + cattle were stolen. Yesterday Valentina's 10yr old son Laki crawled home - WOW!!!!!. He was severely beaten especially scrawny legs left in the bush over 30kms away- he made it painfully home.
The joy mixed with overwhelming concern sprang from Valentina's face and voice and she relayed her good news.
Pray for healing inside and outside for the families affected. A sign of relief has settled here but there lingers sadness.
The other good news, after almost a year, we can finally come out of our tents, the roof is done! we will move our stuff in this weekend just in time.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
meals
so, we're trying to get the roof finished before we leave for several weeks - and it's not the time of building, so people have been reluctant to bring the green sticks and sisal plants (for ropes) to do the work - and the roofers have . aaaahh . also lacked 'incentive' (for reasons entirely opaque to us) - so, there I was, early one morning, way out in the boondocks with a group of guys who were gathering the materials in the bush - I had skipped breakfast because I figured it would be a relatively short trip - it wasn't
- I wasn't in a position to help with the work, other than to load the stuff on the truck afterwards, so I sat there reading and taking notes for some team trainings - I noticed my alertness levels approximated a sine wave, which I attributed to blood sugar levels, when one of the guys walked past and commented on how tired they all were
- once again, I was reminded of how much work they do on so little resources - they hadn't eaten either - in fact, they typically don't eat but one or two small meals a day - one or more of those meals may be "nagwe," or, local beer (vitamin B or not, productivity Definitely goes down) - while I'm used to three meals a day, any one of which would likely serve them well as their 'one', and I tend to whine if I don't get them - go figure
- blessings
Tom
- I wasn't in a position to help with the work, other than to load the stuff on the truck afterwards, so I sat there reading and taking notes for some team trainings - I noticed my alertness levels approximated a sine wave, which I attributed to blood sugar levels, when one of the guys walked past and commented on how tired they all were
- once again, I was reminded of how much work they do on so little resources - they hadn't eaten either - in fact, they typically don't eat but one or two small meals a day - one or more of those meals may be "nagwe," or, local beer (vitamin B or not, productivity Definitely goes down) - while I'm used to three meals a day, any one of which would likely serve them well as their 'one', and I tend to whine if I don't get them - go figure
- blessings
Tom
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