We're going to Uganda!

Team Leaders:
Tyler Poe
Brianna Machowsky

Team Members:
Alyssa Reece
Lydia Gardner
Kayla Vandekamp
Kris Tauson
Kellyn Arii
Kristin Jewell

We will be partnering with the ministry, One by One, which is based in the capital city of Uganda, Kampala.

What we'll be doing:
• Volunteering in a babies home where babies have been abandoned. These little ones range in age from newborn to age 3. Our time spent at the Sanyu Babies Home that houses 45 – 50 little ones is so needed - not only by the children but the staff. There are never enough loving arms for these precious gifts from God.
• Ministering to the children in the hospital ward – many just before they are to have surgery. We distribute toys, cookies and lots of love. Painting finger nails and face painting in a highlight for the children. Almost every family gladly welcomes the prayers of our team members – praying for their sick or wounded child.
• Conducting several medical clinics in the city slums and rural villages. Here whether you have medical training or not – each person will have a specific taste to do. Ugandan doctors volunteer their services and work alongside our team as we set up three separate stations: 1) vitals 2) seeing the doctor 3) pharmacy.
• Spending time with the 13 orphans in our New Creation Family Home – even taking them with us on the bus as we go to the Nile River. The children love this time together with their new friends.
• Distributing de-worming tablets to the children in the Acholi Quarters. This is a slum area on a side of a hill where over 10,000 people fled Northern Uganda in order to spare their lives. Many of them have gone through horrific atrocities having many loved ones killed by the rebels in the north.
• Ministering and conducting a medical clinic to the Sudanese people. Most of the children in our school come from this slum area and they will perform by singing and dancing for those in attendance.
• Volunteering a day at our school, New Creation Centre – where we will hold a clothing drive for the children - letting the children pick out their own outfits – should be lots of fun! Also, spending time with them in their chapel as they worship and dance before the Lord. Breaking into their classes, teams of 3 or 4 people will go to each class talking with the children – giving them a little insight to who you are. Maybe your group will do a craft with the children or a geography lesson or math bingo. No matter what you do with the children – they will enjoy spending every minute with you.
• Lots of singing, sports, giving out of cookies and small toys, and Bible puppet show to be done where we minister.
• Each morning we will start the day with worship, devotions and tidbits about Uganda. We will end the evening with an informal “wrap up” time of the happenings of the day and what the day meant to you.

We hope to be updating this blog during our trip when we can. Please keep checking back while we are there!

Please pray for us. God bless!