Posted on December 2, 2012 by Lorna
Growing up in a church I took part in our ‘Shoe-box
roadshow’ every year, during which we would make a big human chain to pass all
of the Christmas shoe-boxes out of the church and into the van that would
transport them to the next stage of their journey. Well this week I got to see
the far end of that chain as we handed some of the shoe-boxes out to the
children.
We run two children’s clubs on Fridays in different areas of Kampala, and this week we closed one of them for Christmas with a big Christmas party. We decorated the church with paper chains and paper snowflakes (we wanted to bring a bit of the UK to Uganda for Christmas!) and played lots of games. The children also heard the Christmas story and were fed a meal and cake (guess who that was baked by?!) and then we had two Father Christmases who handed out the Christmas shoe-boxes. It was so special to be a part of this and to see the children receiving their gifts, especially as I know some of the children.
So a lot of this week has been spent preparing for that. We had to sort through the boxes so that we could give a suitable box to each child. It was really lovely that each box was for a specific child and had their name on it. We also spent some time making the decorations, and I spent some time baking and icing enough cake for around 60 people!
We also had a chance this week to plan what we’ll be spending the rest of the Christmas break doing which was really exciting, I wont spoil the surprise though!
Something that I definitely enjoyed a lot this week was getting to drive the new Smile car (don’t worry Dad it was only on the back roads!) I’m hoping that I might be in with more of a chance of my brother letting me drive his van now that I’ve driven a 4×4 on African roads!
If anyone prayed for water last week in response to my last blog – thank you! Last week I got very good at washing my hair in a bucket, and most days we didn’t even have enough water for that, but it has rained quite a lot recently which has filled up our reserve tanks.
We run two children’s clubs on Fridays in different areas of Kampala, and this week we closed one of them for Christmas with a big Christmas party. We decorated the church with paper chains and paper snowflakes (we wanted to bring a bit of the UK to Uganda for Christmas!) and played lots of games. The children also heard the Christmas story and were fed a meal and cake (guess who that was baked by?!) and then we had two Father Christmases who handed out the Christmas shoe-boxes. It was so special to be a part of this and to see the children receiving their gifts, especially as I know some of the children.
So a lot of this week has been spent preparing for that. We had to sort through the boxes so that we could give a suitable box to each child. It was really lovely that each box was for a specific child and had their name on it. We also spent some time making the decorations, and I spent some time baking and icing enough cake for around 60 people!
We also had a chance this week to plan what we’ll be spending the rest of the Christmas break doing which was really exciting, I wont spoil the surprise though!
Something that I definitely enjoyed a lot this week was getting to drive the new Smile car (don’t worry Dad it was only on the back roads!) I’m hoping that I might be in with more of a chance of my brother letting me drive his van now that I’ve driven a 4×4 on African roads!
If anyone prayed for water last week in response to my last blog – thank you! Last week I got very good at washing my hair in a bucket, and most days we didn’t even have enough water for that, but it has rained quite a lot recently which has filled up our reserve tanks.
A few people have mentioned that they’re finding it
difficult to leave comments on my blog – you have to click on the title of the
blog and then scroll down to the bottom and there should be a box to leave a
comment in. If not then feel free to drop me an email or a message on Facebook.
Its always really great to hear from people!
Prayer requests for this coming week:
- Please pray for provision for Smile Uganda. Alex has some fantastic visions to develop the charity so we trust that God will provide for them to become a reality.
- Give thanks for God’s protection and for good health and safety, and pray for that to continue.
- Please pray for provision for Smile Uganda. Alex has some fantastic visions to develop the charity so we trust that God will provide for them to become a reality.
- Give thanks for God’s protection and for good health and safety, and pray for that to continue.
Thank you so much.
Love and God bless,
Love and God bless,
Lorna
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