Some Highlights:
- Morning Session teaching was outstanding.
- Ed's luggage finally arrived (he's considering starting a new line of clothing called "Cheaper by the Dozen" because it can go 12 day without changing).
- Team Uganda beat Team USA 6 to 5 in Soccer (their best against our team leaders). The crowd was really into it - especially after Jay's first score celebrations.
- Being mobbed by kids when I took out my PC to do some map work for the staff.
- A very meaningful conversation with Alex.
- My first look ever at a Black Widow spider.
- Seeing the piglets escape from their pen during the afternoon session and wondering what "disturbances" might be in store (nothing ended up happening).
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| Joel pulling together the final Formation |
After camp was finished and the kids were either having Tea or starting to head home (they seemed much more reluctant to leave today) I had a very meaningful conversation with Alex. As I stated earlier, we've been sponsoring Alex since the first wave of kids were signed up through Covenant Mercies. He just graduated from the program this spring and will now be going on to University. He told me the story of him finding out, via social media, that he had finished first in his class at school. He didn't believe it at first, but then saw the results when he was at school the next time. He was very surprised. He very articulately expressed his gratefulness to God for His care. And that he had "no hope", before sponsorship, of being able to achieve what he has. I'm humbled by how God has used such small effort on our part to do such good things for Alex.
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| Alex, purple shirt closest to the Stand goal |
Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow we had back to help build a house for a local widowed grandmother who has a couple of kids in the program. Very much looking forward to that.
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