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I Started playing Disc Golf about 2yrs ago.Sept 2013. At a place called Veterans park in Arlington,Texas.

About a year before i really got into it a friend of mine took me. his daughter Sara and a few others out to play, we were already at the park and so we started at hole 11, since it was close by.

I can honestly say that I had NO idea what i was doing! and that I had not heard of Disc Golf in my life, but gotta try new things. so we began. Hole 11 has trees on both sides of the throwing pad, (in the picture above it doesn't look near as bad as i first thought it to be)with a fork at the end. one the other side of the fork and further out is the Basket.

I manage to hit every tree one the way out past the fork in the path.It was hilarious....well to me at least. After the 4th throw  Sara shook her head and Orlando said "My son! The goal is NOT to hit the trees."
So my next throw guess what happened?

Yup straight up murdered that next tree.Eventually i got to the clearing and it got better but not by much.

So a year later I decided to try again. having bought some disc of my own and driving over to Vets.I began to teach myself how to play. and learn where all the holes are.(no maps)

Surprisingly i never lost a disc.after a while some of my friends found out what i was doing and joined in with me. plus i was all excited about my new adventure i would invite other friends to come play. We would go check out different parks in the area. One of my Favorites in Coyote in Cedar Hill. Actually Orlando took me out there one day after weeks of bugging him about it. but we didn't go to coyote that day there is actually 2 courses there. so we hit up Beaver."the easier" one...i beg to differ.
Anyways my friend TJ and I would venture out a few months later to coyote and have a blast doing it!

a good handful of friends would come and play with me but not really know what they were doing. i would teach them what i could and encourage them, with the way they threw, good throws or bad and it just takes practice. but your doing great.

Originally I had thought that i could go play in the parks and pray for the area and people. ha i even made a shirt that said FREE PRAYER. A lot of people who come and play drink beer and smoke pot the whole time.
The thought was to pray for anyone and anything. and it worked i got to do just that, while playing a game i love.
But it first originated with Orlando and his son in law Sammy .who had the idea to go to a park worship The LORD with all their musical instruments they would bring,play and pray. they had signs up that said FREE PRAYER.


I would play All Fall, Winter and spring....Summer is a different story.(but i play when i can)(mostly its just to hot)


In the Beginning I would throw "Safe throws" So that i could find my disc. In time i would stretch the boundaries of what "safe" is, but if it happened that i didn't know where the disc was after spending some time looking for it. I would casually ask Jesus where my disc was. He would help me for sure and the result was finding it every time.

Through this year though I stopped throwing "safe" and start throwing as far as i can get it out there and closest to the basket. Go All In!

Many many times i would have seen it go one way then curve back or not even see where it went. So i would ask Holy Spirit for help, Help me find my disc.

This is where it gets fun, He would say turn left, now right.walk straight,k go left. Stop! OK turn around and look near that tree. i'd circle the tree/bush, full circle and say where? look down or look up....ah there it is. Thanks Holy Spirit. Each time its different directions but half the time i think. 
ah wouldn't it be easier to just say go exactly to the spot without all these extra turns and twist?

haha Well sure it would be but that's not the point!
The point is to be in tune to what He is saying when He says it. not to jump ahead or get there before its time. To have a series of little adventures along the way. Its key to be able to hear specific instruction to get you where He wants you to go.

I've started to ask Him more and more and Trust His directions more and more.

It reminds me of when this actually really started for me.That was going to Quest at the beginning of the year. In quest there is an adventure part. and the day before i had picked out a spot where i though would be a great place to spend the day with The LORD, However the next day we were asked to not go where we wanted to go but ask where He wants to go and go there.

So I did just that and from the start He said walk straight ahead, so into the Morning day break sun i began to walk. having forgot my sunglasses i thought well ah I CANT SEE Anything! but keep going He said....Now stop and turn towards the left walk in between those 2 trees and follow the trail. Having had stopped where He said  it was the perfect spot the sun was no longer in my face and i could see again. followed the trail till its end. Then He said cross the river and go straight up the hill... now turn left.and a series of right and left turns to follow. then it was hike up this hill. stop and rest. OK go left then right up there. travel down the hill. at the bottom it was walk 30 paces. stop, ok now turn right and 15 paces more. at this point i had saw someone else and freaked out so i ran ahead a bit. only for Him to say turn around and go back X amount of steps... OK now go 15 again and stop. i was standing right behind another guy when the The LORD said run straight up that hill and stop at the top.. so i did and when i stopped. He said Welcome! here is the place.

2 things 
1) had i gone to my spot i would of never found out about all this other stuff in this area. 
2) I was directly above where i had wanted to go. over looking everything.

So was it Better?  YES!!!
did it take longer to get there? Maybe
did He lead you on an adventure? Absolutely!

I sometimes think that we as Believes tune into the Holy Spirit to get what we want or don't want but fail to tune into what we need!

or where He wants us to be... 


There is a time about a month ago. I threw my disc and saw exactly what bush it went into. when i got in it i didn't see it anywhere. so I asked and He directed but what He was saying didn't make sense to me. It was around sunset and getting dark. so i panicked and went frantically on a search. I heard what He said but couldn't see it. after about 30 mins and it was even darker I gave in and walk back to my truck. Feeling defeated. finally lost a disc. 

We throw and lose our disc and cry out for help! 
He comes to the rescue and gives us the instructions but when it does make sense we panic and do whatever we can to try and make up for it.
ultimately compromising the mission we had set out to do. and walk away feeling defeat and hurt. Spent countless hours running in circles looking for what we cant find in areas that is NO WHERE Near where it is.

and I'm not talking about a game. we do this with School. work. spouse, friends, life. ect...

If only we would simply just say Holy Spirit can you help me? then tune into hearing the directions, Then we can achieve what His goals are.

Life would be better when we listen for His Voice and follow His leading. Though it may not be easy. in fact a lot of the time its not... but It sure is worth it..

off hole 5 today i threw the sickest throw in a long time. hole five is on a hill and the basket is hard to find unless you know where it is.
my throw went exactly where the basket is but missed by 15ft.

when i went down almost to the bottom Holy Spirit says turn left. i missed it the first time but went back. then a series of directions through the bushes lead me to 5-10 from the goal. He said look around the tree there was an island of trees and bushes. i went 1 time around but didn't see it. so I stopped and said where?

He said look down.

I was a lot closer when I first saw it.

like I would of never found this on my own
do you see it?

there it is!

and there the basket. but unlucky for me there is this tree/bush island in front of it.this is the side shot.

the rest of the day went well most of the rest of my throws went further then i thought i could get it. with a few shots that were amazing hitting the basket chains from far..but NOBODY saw them..further why i wish i had a go pro... lol

anyways thanks for reading. hope you have a blessed day!

-SKDK

Believe Despite - Short Film

Sunday Is Garage Time!

Today is the Day of Rest...

So its Church time I had been invite to go with the Amani Family to Worship Harvest.
woke up super earlier and finished packing and cleaning my room,then made my way to the front  were Lindsey, Jordan, and Paige came to pick up William, Enoch and I didn't catch her name but the dress she wore was beautiful.
The  Church was right down the road (in walking distance) we arrive just as worship is starting.It was new and different yet the same and exciting I love worship its the best part of going to a gathering were all believers come together for the same reason...To Worship the King!

After worship the Pastor gets up and starts going into the message, about half way through all these Muzungu's get up in the far side of the church and start moving around. I remember looking over and thinking "that's so distracting, what are they doing?" then they all ran out the door.

the church had a lot of Muzungu's in it that day!

anyways they all leave and its back to focusing in on what he is teaching, what the Holy spirit is say through this dude and take some notes. After Church it was around 12:30 when Danyne say hey Kellie called and asked if i would take you to Calvary Chapel to meet up with your team...(yea that's why i had been packing early this mornin. The BWO team was on their way in and i was to travel with them for 2 weeks.) it was bitter sweet.

I had said to Danyne that Shalom was going to take me into Masese yesterday but we got back from Badondo really late and so he is taking me today in fact right now in 30mins or so.
then proceeded to say that I had messaged the team lead and said I would be their a little later... She said well then go and be safe.will see you soon!

after catching a ride back to Amani Shalom pulled up in his cousins van(note to self..ah never mind it was a rare opportunity) so we packed all of my stuff in the van and headed down to Masese.after picking up some lunch and stopping for gas...NO Comment!

driving into Masese the first thing i saw was the dock where the fisherman moved their boats in and out hauling in fish and going to get more. It was the Port. a little down the road was the Rock quarry that Danyne had been telling me about. it was nice.(i love rocks) it looked like people were living all around the rock quarry and some were gambling right when we pulled up. we got out and walked around a bit. then got back in the van a drove off. (if i had the money i would buy the quarry from Sergio)

Shalom was looking for an orphan ministry called H.E.L.P. they were in Masese but he didn't know where.I was there because 2 yrs ago this is where my heart felt it needed to be. so not knowing where HELP was Shalom pulled over and ran to talk to some guys. then comes back and says this guy is going to take us there.
so we follow a boda driver down the road around a corner and up a hill to a ministry alright, but looking at it i said this isn't the place your looking for...the Sign with small lettering was a dead give-a-way that this for sure wasn't the place! but Shalom said well maybe they can help us. lets go in and see.

The gate guard didn't say much but he let us in..in fact he didn't say anything and come to think of it now I guess he just saw a Muzungu and figured it was OK, what ever the reason it doesn't matter.i remember feeling a bit hesitant to go in. i mean we didn't know who was behind this wall.I guessed i kind expected to see a pair of 90 year old white missionaries who have been here for 40yrs or something like that.
we hopped out of the van to find a bunch of people on the porch all looking to be elderly i could be wrong though. a young woman by the name of Chelsea came out to meet us. she asked how can i help you 2?
Shalom being the native and the only one who has heard of HELP I let him speak to her. she had said she never heard of it.but she made a few phone calls to see if she could help us. i believe she even called Renee the founder of this place and she had never heard of it.

Chelsea walked in and out of the house looking for people to call or something that would help us. She said she had been left her to watch over 2 little boys in their ICU room and continued to help Shalom.after what seem to be an hour maybe a little less.more like 30mins. and discovering that Shalom's phone is dead mine doesn't work here and well there was really no one to help us find this elusive place.
at some point during the searching Chelsea had said that the people she was with,they were all at church this morning but had to get up and leave early because one of here team members was very ill and need to go to Kampala so they left and headed there while 1st dropping her off at home.
this sounded kinda...then shalom said oh what church do you go to? she replied and said it was my first time but I think its called Worship Harvest.....(really!lol oh man now i feel kinda bad for the thoughts i had earlier and really God? you would bring us here!)

I had thought the reason why I am standing here is because God wants us to be here and not there. So Shalom was like well lets keep on going as she said sorry but i don't know how else to help.I 've only been here for a week...(that's funny i thought me too)
shalom telling her its cool and not to worry turned to walk to the car.

So tell me please what is this place? what do y'all do here? Chelsea said sure I'd love to tell you about this amazing place!
she said it was a rehab,what kind of a rehab? its a malnutrition rehab for infants, babies and children

Chelsea showed me around the backside of the building were the mommas were washing cloths. and some kids were running around. she explain what the mommas did here and led me inside to what looked like the kitchen area.then pointed down a hall and said all of our babies are right down there,but here in this room is why I am here to watch over these to sweet boys both are on Oxygen she said the one on the left is doing better but still needs help and this one on the right is trying to recover from Cardiac arrest. both need help!

as i walked out I began to write down what she had said, she then led us into the living room where all over the walls where pictures of little ones.I ask so tell me about these kids? who are they?
she said all of these kids have stayed with Serving His Children over the years. every double picture you see are the before and after pictures of these kids.when they leave they are happy and healthy fat kids.their guardian who brings them here get educated on how to feed and take care of their kids.
how Posho has no nutritional value and how babies need more then just a filler.
The LORD God changes hearts in and through this program ever day.

i had permission to take the photo but im not sure about posting it here...YOLO

i asked about the single pictures. and she replied with the singles are pictures of kids who went to be with the LORD... as i looked around the room the before and afters far out weighed the singles.and this ministry is doing an excellent job of caring for and loving on His kids. Chelsea also said that its very rare for the same child to come back... the success rate  of this place is amazing! so in the end all i knew all I could do is pray for them. so I prayed for Chelsea and the start of her journey with Jesus in this Place,prayed for the kids and the 2 in ICU.for the team in Kampala and over Renee and the ministry here then we had left. Shalom really want to find this place just keep looking but I noticed that a storm was blowing in and that we didn't have enough gas to be gallivanting around. He started to head down the wrong road.I said the way out is back that way..he laughed and said yea but all these roads have to lead out...nope! dead end with many many eyes staring at us like who are you and what are you doing here.

Shalom realized that he made a mistake and tired to get out quickly.he drove the way we came and we made it back out to the main road. we i suggested that we go back to town, He insisted that we go further in.I said Shalom if we were to get stuck here. this could get ugly fast.our windows are not tinted,and I am like the only white kid in south central or Compton...he says whats Compton?(a very hard and bad place for white boys like me)( Now I don't care if some takes all my stuff but that day everything we had in the van belonged on the other side of Uganda for some kids over there.) again knowing that we were on E that we should turn around.we drove around the corner to a dead end and turned back around then headed to find another way in when I said Shalom we need to go. He said oh Sam don't worry God will protect us!(yea no doubt He can and would)(I've personally seen the hand of God protect me through all these years.) but out of my mouth came the bible also says Do not put the LORD your God to the test.
oh... he said...OK lets go back then... driving back in it began to rain, by the time we got into town we were on super E.so we pulled into a gas station i put what i had in the tank.it wasn't much but the we headed for the hotel when the rain turned into a trenchual down pour so much water falling out of the sky it was craziness! he pulled over and we ate are cold lunches then when it had cleared we made our way to the Hotel Paradise where my team was supposed to be at.
when we got there 3 large buses pulled in behind us and that was them.

while it started to rain again we pulled out all of my bags and put them under a covered parking lot. many members of the team I knew they all were shocked that i was standing their since they didn't see me travel with them we said our greetings,meet new people and had a few Ladies make comments about the stuffed animal i had been carrying around this whole trip.(haha yea i didn't share that part yet)but now you know! I traveled from my friends house to VA-London-Uganda carrying a plush stuffed dog! it made a great pillow in the airports and the idea behind it was when and if we ran into just 1 little kid in pain or hurting, sick of whatever i was gonna give it to him or her...

so after we all got settled in our room which was CRAZYiness (i wont even go into it)
at dinner i sat down to 2 guys i didn't know and my friend Joseph from Fort Worth,Texas.

figured sit with someone new instead of someone you knew.anyways so the first guy i start to talk to is a dentist from USA here to find a ministry that he and his wife had been sponsoring for years he says they work with malnourished kids in the area.the next thing that came out of his mouth shocked me. he said the name of it was Serving His Children! WHAT I said NO way! that's so crazy i was just there like a few hours ago. he got happy and started asking question that i didn't know the answer to. so i had shared with him what i saw there.

we swapped more stories and i got to know a little bit about the other dude to.he also way a doctor.
that night i really felt the impression to start praying for these 2 little boys. of who i didn't get there names.

i think the beginning of this post it says the day of rest? well yea not the kinda you would probably expect...it was good for me!

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Musia and Musazi

(I had been debating on weather or not i should just finish this story or mention it throughout the trip).
 during that first week as a corporate group we had gotten together a few times apart from or meetings ,times to gather and worship the King and pray for whatever. in a couple of those time i had mention to the Group the 2 little boys so we prayed over them.
I got an impression to invite the small group of people who was praying for me on this trip to invite them to pray for the boys as well. in fact stop praying for me and start praying for them.


every where we went I invited people i didn't know that well to lift up 2 little boys in prayer that God would heal and restore them. all over Jinja and into Masaka people prayed for 2 little boy they may never see until we get to heaven.
but it still amazes me that complete stranger would say yes and join in. at some point i got an idea of i know at least 500 people on FB and 450 of them are saved.so i sent out a mass group message and after a ton of them started leaving i to left the group and abandon the thought that everyone in the world need to pray for these kids and just go after it on my knees with everything i had. its not the amount of people perhaps,its weather or not its in his plan to save these little boys.

before we left for Masaka and friend of mine said that all the doctors were going to SHC on the free day and that she would get the names and an update on the 2 children.for some reason i thought that 1of the 2 was a girl.but when her report came back that night it was 2 boys, one was Musia and the other Musazi.
now Musia was the one who was getting better or the 2, Jen had said that he was off oxygen and was put in a normal room.but he lost one of his arms.the infection he had was so bad that the doctor had no choice but to amputate it to keep the infection from spreading. Praise God i said at least he is living you know. sure he lost an arm but God still came through.

as for Musazi he got worse. he had severe Pneumonia and the doctors were expecting his heart to fail.they expected him do die....
when i heard this it didn't sit well with me. immediately rejected it i could not agree with that and that when the pray got more intense.

In Texas at our church we have a service called Habitation,and in it we here about people all the time getting bad reports from doctor who say their not gonna make it much long or the cancer is to big we can't do anything and other things great and small.but then getting the reports back from after we prayed and God did what only He can do, they come back and say the doctors couldn't find anything wrong!

 and last year when God healed James in Masaka from all the disease he had!!! 
nope I won't accept that idea that this kids heart is just going to give out and stop working!

 we went to churches and other places were believer gather and prayed. it wasn't until maybe 3days before the team left that i got an idea to email Renee and see how he was doing. so i tried and the as soon as i hit send the wifi/Internet went out... we found out the next day it was the whole east side of the country.that next day wifi back up so i tried and again.and BAM the power goes out...come on then goes out in all of Masaka....really????
next day it comes back on but guess what my phone will not send out emails....so after trying and trying my friend Jen said we could use her computer. and we did....that next morning i got an email from Renee that read :

 Hi Samuel,
Yes I was informed of your visit to our center.I am sorry that I missed you...But thank you so much for coming, and for joining us in prayer for all the little ones that are here!
Musazi is doing MUCH better! Yes, he was in cardiac failure at the time. As well as having Pneumonia. He was is rough shape and we were very concerned about what the end result might be there for a while. but God is the Ultimate Healing and he is doing so well now! He is off oxygen and has moved back into a normal room. We are praying for continual healing, but God has already shown Himself faithful in the life of that little boy!

we are so glad you stumbled upon our ministry! Thank You so much for praying with and for us! Thankful,So thankful
Renee Bach
Founder and Director

 I cant really express with the fullness of what or how it felt to read those words. I jumped,leaped, danced ,shouted for joy and hooted with everything Praising Jehovah Rapha God our Healer!

other couldn't figure it out until i shared with them the email stating that We prayed and our God heard our cries.I am thankful so thankful to be apart of this little boys life war for him through prayers

Prayer works! it always has and it will continue to do so. Because we serve a God who cares,who is a loving Father who hears our cries,pleas and petitions,He is concerned of our well being and of every detail of our lives weather we choose to believe it or not.
the bible says :

I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, And Heard my cry. Psalm 40:1

I cried out to God with my voice- to God with my voice, And he gave ear to me. Psalm 77:1

I Love the LORD, Because He Heard my voice and supplications. Because He has Inclined His ear to me,Therefore i will call upon Him as long as I  live Psalm 116:1

also the Bible tells us to keep Asking, Seeking and knocking read Matt 7:7-12

Thank You Jesus!



Serving His Children really is a great Minisrty I'd encourage you to check them out

http://www.servinghischildren.org/

http://servinghischildren.blogspot.com/


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Into the Weekend!

Well Friday had come fast,
we the normal wake up, devo'd then started work at 8am, lunch at 1pm then after lunch Danyne bring her friends up to see the tile and upstairs, then Charlie come up later to see as well to. but then stops and says instead of $15 a night were gonna drop it to $10,
she said something about the accommodations weren't all that so they decided to bump it down.. OH MAN what ever they excuse that doesn't matter to me..Its all about Thank YOU PAPA!!! that's a huge blessing for me!

Friday night was chill after work I had gone over to Danyne and Sergio's for dinner there we had Pasta and All I can say is it was in the top 3 meals best meals of thee entire trip.I'm thankful for everything that we got, yes i know its more then most people ever get..but I'm just sayin Hands down yup! pasta at Danyne's.

that night the Colorado team was over at the house to and all us guys were talking about different things as Sergio was going in and out. and I am not totally sure how this convo started but Serg jumps in and says what are you going to do? or when? next question was If you came(back to Uganda) you could pull up side jobs to pay for living here but still have time for ministry...Dave says "like Tent making"...... OK so we started talking about fundraising and how i hated asking people to fund the mission trips.then it lead into coming back to Uganda and then tent making. the room goes quiet as people get up to get food and just then I think OK wait a minute God what are you saying here?

- Tent making last/first time i heard that came from my friend Kisa, Kisa is from papa New Guinea and is here in the states as a missionary, I remember asking him what he was doing looking for work and he said "do you know what Tent making is?" i replied with making tents? he said its what Paul did and if i didn't to then to look it up. yea Kisa is like that, if you don't know he want tell you. its cool though. anyways i pushed that off it didn't apply to me at the time but now it makes sense.

- so its a great idea, specially for staying over there long term...
- wait wait wait I can't even believe I'm seriously considering "Long Term"
honestly I've had a lot of time to think about it since that conversation. and have decided not to jump into a long year commitment. for many reason and one being to stay in Uganda I believe you need a work permit to be in the country its a 2yr deal. and when i had talk to Uncle Dusty, because that's what He and his wife have to be in country he said.work permits are hard to get,because even though you are working for free. the Ugandan government is like why are we giving you the green light to live in our country and do this work when our own people should be doing it?
God would have to make away.
if anything I'll go for 3 months next year but not any longer then that just yet, not really gonna go into it much further then that. I mean yes there dreams and desires, and vision but the timing is not here yet


- Saturday June 15th,2013
Proverbs 15:15  - All the days of the afflicted are evil,But  he who is of a merry heart has a Continual feast.

(I think that applies to the day to day walk,finding the good in every day and finding it in every situation)

about 7:30 i ran up to install more tile. 8-8:30 Bob and John the morning gate guard and a new guy came up stairs to look at what I've been working on all week.They always say "well done Sam"
to them it looks good but to me i see the flaws... flaws in the tile the way it was made a little off causing the grout lines to either come down to nothing or be big in some area..but i cant control or change that so just gonna have to deal with it...Although you couldn't really tell unless you inspected ever inch of the whole room..unless your an artist to...

bout 8:30-9am Uncle dusty comes to pick me up and run me into town for a money exchange.just as we were leaving A guy by the name of John Honeycutt came by. John works at Water Mission International, He came by to see Uncle Dusty and check on the water filtering system Amani has.
one of the ones at the cottage is an old style. Basically its a concrete tube with sand in it to act as a filter and clean water....Sounds a bit sketchy to me.I bought bottled water by the case.(however if I were to stay longer I'd do it the way he is about to suggest)

John and Dusty talked for a bit and then John took us by his place right down the road. as we walked in the building he introduced us to his volunteer who has been and will be there for a total of 3months for now. She helps with all the paper work and what ever else. next john takes us to the kitchen area where there are many jugs of water and a water cooler the kind u would find in U.S office buildings and spaces..."The Water Hole" you know where you and your buddies gather to drink a bit and converses about non work related issue before returning back to the slave driving task you hold..(lol J/K J/K)(or it could be true........)
anyways John leads on to explain about how they used to do it then on to how its being done today. well not everyone is doing it but he learned this from how the Baptist do there clean water in different areas they are in with Horrible water conditions. tabs yup 1 tab for your 5 gallon jug and 30minutes later presto change -O. clean water!also they use PH testers if its doesn't get a certain level they hit it again.

Behind us were these machines that I have been dying to ask him about. I saw one in a fishing village last year and thought that was Amazing!
when I asked John said that these are installed in villages all over they have been doing this recently with a few years or so.I had mentioned that when i had first seen one I thought it was neat and cool that it only charge about 100 shillings per jug. He said they cost 500 shillings and the only reason there's a cost is if and when the machine breaks down that money goes to fixing it.
but really in my opinion its a little more then that. Its letting the people have some dignity with the feeling that they can pay for some water and provide something clean and good for their household.
+ (a pastor i look up to once said that when you are out Helping the poor and homeless you need to be careful because what you think might be helping could indeed be destroying them further. Meaning giving free food to people constantly they begin to rely on it and feel they don't have to work to feed themselves or their families but just wait for some "richer" person to come along and feed them.)

So there different sides to the issue or poor people buying water...but think whatever you are going to..HA HA if you don't like it then Next time Your in Africa or a 3rd world bring a bag full of coins so that you can buy their water to put in their jugs. while your at it it would be nice to carry their water home for them to.
( this year before i ever left for Uganda I had a bag full of coins to do just that if we were to come across one of those tanks.I had no idea the LORD God was going to direct me to the source of the water ministry.)
As far as getting a crew or having a crew at the ministry they do but its not what you think as John says me and my helper are the only White people or Muzungu's here in this facility. all that is done in the field is done by Ugandans, They survey for water,dig wells, install piping then hook up the machines and do the maintenance when and if it breaks.
That is really cool  to of taught the locals how to run the ministry and giving them work experience  and learning a trade that they can use else where.
reminds me of something that happen in GUA last year. more like something said.

the women on the right is Maria is works their in the office a native to Uganda. John is on the Left.

Maria had told me when I asked that there are 15 different Dialects of Ugandan mixed in with Swahili all over.

so Uncle Dusty and I got some tabs from him to start out with and headed on out to Jinja town.run a few errands then back to the cottage. When exchanging money for Uganda it is best to do it with 50's or 100's and in Uganda if your currency is below 2006 it is worthless. funny right? well that's just the way it is.
so back at the cottage I didn't get to work for too much longer. after lunch I hoped in a van with Charlie,Emily,Cory,Lindsey,and Leah along with Arron,picking up Johnson and john on the way.
We set out to go to Badondo. its an area not to far from Amani where Charlie had started a program out there with the kids a lot of kids! she and Arron go out there every Saturday.its kinda like a VBS.
most of the Amani Volunteers will go somewhere on Saturdays to serve in the communities. Some go to a feeding program done in Masese others got to Badondo.
OK so its more like 20-25mins away. when we got there it is just like every other place you go where kids are expecting you to show up or wondering if you every will come back. they kids charge down the hill from every direction as they see 2 vans pull up into their slice of paradise. many are playing in the very large green grass filled  field,as they get closer to stopping there is now a mobbed of children around both vans. most of them laughing and giggling some calling out Muzungu (which means White person)
others eagerly assisting us with our things pulling out many tarps used to sit on. They spread each one out and continue to sit on them one side is all the girls and the other side is all the boys.
Arron and the boys are getting ready to to run the show this week. Charlie has expressed to Arron that it is going to be all on them that she will be there but is not leading it. they need to learn!

so the Men begin by singing some song to Jesus then enter into a story of our beloved King. after the message is delivered they split the kids up by age group. all the really small ones sit in 1 circle and they get an activity to do like coloring, another group is for kids about 1-6grade i suppose and they play a game that involves getting a sweetie. the last 2 groups is for the older kids 1 boys and 1 girls, there they are allowed to ask any questions they may have about the message or ask about anything else they may be going through.

 This young boy was watching his younger brother and trying to get him to stop crying during the message.

Arron leading worship

They have Moo Cows!

you can't see the hoop but this is Basket ball rim

form a circle to play a game

getting ready to here the message

here's some more picture coming your way,man i miss being in the place with these kids!

little ones waiting for the activity

Coloring with Jesus!

that boy's face is priceless

so they played this game that had to do with how many large marshmallow's they could stick in their mouth.

the winners got to choose a prize

Next came the fun part as if all of what already happened wasn't fun already! we had filled up and brought with us water balloons and was going to let the kids have a water balloon fight but many balloons had popped in transit and Charlie realized that we were all about to be very very wet.
So she and Arron decided to do something a bit different.

I wonder what Charlie is Planing here

Arron get the kids to form a group and be ready

when all the balloons are gone its time to empty the water on the kids to.

as the water balloons flew across to the kids some caught them and flew them right back, every one had a blast and all the popped balloons got picked up so that no little kids choked!

a few days after taking this pic i sent it to a friend who 2weeks before we were all joking around saying the exact same hand signal of this boy was the Discipleworks gang sign!

after they water balloons we only had about 15mins left with the kids when Charlie remember she had told the kids last week that we'd bring soccer ball this week so they could play. so we dropped the balls and they were off. i stayed upside for a bit to take a few more photos and that's when i saw it.

there was one little boy with a paper airplane who was actually sharing that plane with 6 other kids. i ran over and began to fly the plane with them.it was cool to see them all taking turns throwing it up and all watching as the plane glides around before falling to the ground... man insta memories filled my mind as my friends and I would make planes and fly em. ah to be a kid again. i am reminded to be a kid when I am in Africa the real child come unleashed. next off to play soccer then back to the planes. then finally we here TIME TO GO. we all sigh as all kids do and say just 5 more mins Pleaaaassssseeeee!!! or as my nephew would say pease pease pease
but that 5mins is us playing as we run up towards the vans.

I love being a kid!  being a kid with other kids.mostly being a Kid in Africa!

we got hugs and gave hugs for me it will be a while before i can come back but for the team they'll return every Saturday!