Hi Lighthouse family!
As much as we missed celebrating Easter at home with you all, it has been so special to be here in Uganda. Since Easter Monday was a holiday, things on campus were a little quieter and SOS was so kind to plan out an overnight trip to Murchison Falls National Park!
Our time in God’s creation was amazing! We did a boat ride on the Nile River (hello from a safe distance, hungry hippos!), safari drives around the park (hello Lion King!) and a visit to Murchison Falls, where we got soaked by the most powerful waterfall in the world (hello water!). We had the best tour guide who knew all the fun facts and even found us leopards and lions by listening to the birds (!!). Just when we would be awestruck by one thing, God would show us even more of His majesty and power. We keep marveling at how creative God is to have designed each of these animals and all of these landscapes! While still jetlagged and running off fumes, we are so thankful for the retreat into His wonderful creation, complete with our first night of 8 hour sleep.
It also gave our team the space to just hang out, share stories and laugh together. We even had a romantic candlelit dinner for team bonding! I guess marveling at elephants and giraffes wasn’t enough and God wanted us to experience a plague of lake flies too. We had to run through just about a million of them to get to the dining hall and then had to eat in the dark so we wouldn’t be consumed. So… memorable.
After returning to SOS, we spent time fellowshipping over dinner with the May family, who moved over from Texas two years ago. Dexter is an engineer and oversees construction on campus (which is a LOT), including a new church building, a library for the Shepherd’s Training College and larger medical clinic. Personally, it was so encouraging to talk to Jessi and hear a little about homeschooling her four young children on this side of the world. It has just been so sweet to get to know the missionaries here and see how all their gifts and talents are being used in the most intentional way, for His glory.
Please pray that we would also use our gifts to love others well and that the rest of our week would be fruitful as we serve in the clinic, community and school!
Grace Jung and Team Uganda
