Welcome Home, Uganda Team!

The Uganda team arrived home this evening. It was a long, hard journey just to get home, not to mention everything they saw and experienced in the past 11 days. "Re-entry" can be a hard time for missionary and family. Please pray for them and their families in the coming days.

On our way...

We will be leaving in a short while... It is surely a bittersweet moment. These folks are amazing but we are all looking forward to getting back to our families! Our flight leaves at midnight here (4PM Florida time) and then we will be back in Ocala around 7PM on Sunday night. What an awesome privilege this has been. Thanks for joining with us through your prayers and encouragement. The Children's Home blog was updated again last night. It tells an awesome story.

See you soon

Ken, Bobby and Kevin

Final day

Today is our final day here in our ministry area. We saw a young couple come to faith in Christ on Wednesday. The ministry that is happening here through Hines Ugandan Ministries is wonderful. It has been a blessing to spend time with these sweet believers.

We will say our goodbyes tomorrow and drive to the airport in Entebbe. Our plan leaves just after midnight for us - around 4PM for our families in Florida. We will arrive in Florida Sunday night. We are all excited to see our families.

Thanks for your prayers - God has been faithful to answer them.

Incredible Day

Wow... God is doing an incredible work here. Check out the children's home blog for the pictures and stories that we updated just a little while ago. Thanks for your prayers - God is answering your prayers. Please also pray for our families... we miss them so much.

Uganda Blog Updated

We are finding that the updates from FBCH are going well. Check out the latest news at http://fbchinternationalchildcare.blogspot.com/search/label/Uganda

Uganda Blog

Attached below are some pictures from the Uganda team that have been posted on the FBCH blog. You can also read that blog for the team leader's updates. The address is http://fbchinternationalchildcare.blogspot.com/

An incredible Monday...

We have just completed an incredible work day here in Uganda. God has allowed us to be a part of some incredible ministry as we served several families in this community. We helped work on a house of a very poor widow who is raising several children. The team also went to several houses taking food and clothing. We all commented on how wonderful these sweet folks are as they accept help. They recognize where the help is coming from (God)and that they can not do this by themselves. There are so many houses full of children that are being raised by single parents or grandparents. The AIDS pandemic has had a devastating impact on their lives.

Our power situation here has been limited - sometimes we are actually running on a generator and other times we have no electricity. So... I'll try again later to upload some pictures.

Thanks for praying - God has allowed us to be a great part of His work to the widows and orphans in Uganda.

Home Sweet Home

The Peru team arrived home tonight around 7:30 pm. Thank you for praying for them and their families!

Back In Lima

The team made it back to Lima from Cabana today. Their phones are not working to place calls so we are thankful for text messaging!

Arrived in Kamonkoli

Our team has arrived at our destination. We will now head to an orientation and then I will post some more about our day. These children have already captured our hearts... :)

In Uganda

Our team arrived safely last night in Uganda. We drove about an hour into Kampala and stayed in a hotel. We got to bed around 1 in the morning. God has been so very good already - all of that travel without any problems. Most of our team looks like they are adjusting well to the time change. We are actually 8 hours in front of Florida time.

Please pray for us today as we continue the travel to the orphanage. It will be another long day. I will post again soon.

We continue to pray for our Peru team, too. It is amazing to read about what God is doing in Cabana.

Kevin

In Uganda

Kevin, Ken and Bobby all made it to Uganda safe and sound but tired. By the morning here in FL, they maybe will be at the orphanage. Stay tuned :)

We are in London

We are getting ready for our flight to Uganda. We have been up the entire night. Thanks for praying. We will post as soon as we can tomorrow. We will be there in about 9 hours. Everyone is doing great.

Tuesday, Wednesday in Cabana

We had a busy Tuesday in Cabana. Got to meet with quite a few people. The 2 highlights of the day were meeting with two ladies on separate occasions. The first lady was in the clinic where we discussed a relationship with God for 2 hours. She was hearing something different than what she had in the past and it was neat to see God working in her. We met with a shop owner later in the day for about an hour and a half again discussing a relationship with God and how it comes by faith and not our works. Again, God is working in her. The people seem to be wrestling with the truth from the Bible and that is great.

Today we started out early again and found a few men unloading adobe bricks from a truck for a house/bookstore. We asked if we could help and they didn´t want us to because they were concerned we´d get dirty. We insisted. I´ll post more later.

Ok, sorry for the abrupt end yesterday ... my time on the computer was up:) The men let us help unload the truck. It was a great experience to work with them in an assembly line. We did get dirty too:) We felt that yesterday should be a work day, and not being able to get in touch with one of the believers to see if we could help him, we decided to walk outside of town and see if we could find anyone who wouldn´t mind some help. About 30 minutes outside town we found a lad sowing in a field and she let us join in. We pulled weeds and tilled the soil (with 2 small pick-axes). After the first field was done she invited us to her second:) That one proved tougher as it hasn´t been churned up as much by the bull and plow. We then had lunch with her an another lady she was working with. Before eating, the main lady just started praying and you could hear the thankfulness in her voice. They gave us almost all the food they had to eat - just amazing. We shared some of our food with them too. They spoke Quechuan so it was difficult to communicate, but the main lady said she wished someone would come and teach them from the Bible - we really wished we could.

Thanks for praying for us and supporting us. God is working here and we´ve enjoyed being a part of it.

We leave on the trip back to Lima at 2AM tomorrow - please pray specifically for that trip as it is quite intense.

uganda team in miami

Well it feels like another country but it is only Miami. We are about to meet our team and check in. Our flight leaves around 5. Please pray for all to go smoothly.

And Now to Uganda

Kevin Kite, Bobby Peebles and Ken DeMoliner left this morning for an orphanage in Uganda. They will be traveling with a team from the Florida Baptist Children's Homes. Please pray for their mission and for their families.

Our first day in Cabana

Yesterday was a great first day in Cabana. After a tough combi ride, we got some lunch and rest and then we "hit the streets". Talked with a nurse who the summer missionaries spent time with. She invited us to the clinic and we will head there today. Met some ladies at the shop where you buy combi tickets and both are interested in coming to the Bible studies. Spent time getting some updates on the Bible study group. Met with 2 last night for a great discussion on baptism and other topics. Will be meeting each night this week. Got up early this morning and walked through the town. Met quite a few people, one will come to the Bible study tonight. Got a warm welcome from a former town leader who was very encouraging, even said that we should use the town auditorium and gather a lot of people. He said that the people of Cabana are going to listen and decide.

That`s all for now.

Yes, we made it safely to Peru, though we had an interesting start to our journey yesterday with a flat on the turnpike. It was a good team-building exercise and worked perfectly. Have taken today to get rested and prepared to make the long trek to Cabana. Look forward to posting more when we get there. For now, we need to make a quick return trip to pick up some water we forgot at a stop.

In Lima

Just heard from the team and they are in Lima. They head out tonight on a bus to Cabana!

And They're Off to Peru

The November mission team left this morning from Ocala and are headed to Cabana, Peru. Please pray for David Ripple, Cameron Ripple, Jewell Dye and Adam Suydam as they spend the next 8 days with the people of Cabana.