Wednesday 23rd May 2007

Today when we were talking with the Wards, Pam made a good comment that really encouraged me.  She said that God asked for us to go to do the job that we are doing, and He knows we are not perfect.  He knows all our faults and all that is wrong with us, He knows that we will get many things wrong and make many bad decisions.  Beside all this He still chose to send us.

We had a pretty relaxing day where we did not do too much – we are waiting for things to happen before we can do anything else so we took the opportunity to just do not too much at all.  In the afternoon when the Pam & Eddie came home they said about there church having another baby now.  Not someone from the congregation having a baby, but another one that had been brought to the church for someone to look after it.  It was discovered on Monday in the football stadium, after not long being born.  The person who had found it found it with a brick on its chest.  This just highlighted yet again the need for things to change here in Uganda.  I don’t think that this child would have been left for any other reason, except desperation.

After dinner Phil went with Ben to watch a soccer match on TV at a local hotel so we watched a DVD with Pam and Eddie about the situation in northern Uganda, one that I had brought with me.  After watching this Pam said that she is moved greatly by the situation there, but also said that there was many things that were comparable that happened in the Kabale district.  Maybe not as straight out horrific and sadistic, but just as bad anyway.  We spoke a little on the way that children are beaten at home and at school.  One of the children in there program missed a few weeks of school at the beginning of a term, and at the end of the term was beaten for not having full notes.

Today was just a big thinking day – a day to reflect on the situation that we have come to.