Delirious

We had our first official day of VBS today and it was crazy, wild, and fun all in one, with a little stress added as well.  We had roughly 60 kids aging from 3 years to 15 years old. Our story was about the miraculous catch of fish.  It was a great time for us to nail down the truth of obedience.  It was really cool to see how some of the kids were really listening and soaking the Word in.  There are two prayer requests from the orphanage:
1.  There is a little 9 year old boy named Emmanuel who is in need of a home either by way of an orphanage or adoption.  He has cerebral palsy.  The orphanage has been asked if they would house him, but they are filled up to their limit.  They really want to bring him to GSF, because if they don't and if no one else takes him, he will end up on the streets.
2.  The other request that we have is that the children are being taught that they can lose their salvation.  If they sin and die before they ask God to forgive them, they will go to hell.  This teaching is not coming from the GSF missionaries.  It is the Ugandan culture and they are having a problem with some of the house mothers teaching that. 
Dr. Mark went and toured the two hospitals in Jinja today with Claudia and the orphanage nurse, Millie. He has also been treating some of the patients here at the orphanage.  Today has been a very refreshing day.  We have had some down time which has been great.  We are all a little delirious at this point.

Each day a few of us will take a turn having the priviledge of eating lunch in one of the missionary homes where they host lunch every day for the 7 children here that have HIV/AIDS.  And after lunch Shauna, Charlie and Liza will spend an hour with one of the missionary women here for a time of prayer and encouragement.  We are all so blessed so many times each day with this Africa experience!  So much laughter and so many tears...praying for God's purpose to be fulfilled and not a minute of opportunity is lost.