On Sunday morning Betty suspected that there wasn’t enough bread for all of us. I told her to count the pieces that we’d bought from Pastor Juma’s wife. I told her this in passing, then set myself to another small errand (probably ferrying a jerry can of water to the bathing shelter). After completing my […]
Archive for August, 2008
After prayers on Sunday we walked down to a tributary of the Nile River and watched Mandela Joseph (also known as Lucky Boy or Citi Boy) be baptized. Only a couple months ago I wouldn’t have ever imagined seeing the fourteen year old kid accept Christ on a scorching day in the middle of the […]
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion
of what […]
The day after William was born Matt and Ansley boarded a single engine plane on the dirt airfield outside of town. Sophie said that she and Awilo waved at the aircraft as it circled Nimule and headed south toward Uganda. An hour and a half later Matt and Ansley landed in Entebbe then waited the […]
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