Uganda brings out the best

     ** Saturday, Feb 16. This morning our group visited Raoul's boys home in Bugembi.  It was the first night that they had stayed at the home and had 5 boys with them, including Emmanuel, the boy Raoul had "picked" from the Musesse village yesterday. We did physcials on the boys and left meds for 4 of them.  Raoul has established a home for street boys and calls his ministry Kwagala.  He has a full-time house dad named Brian, a cook/housekeeper and a short-termer from Canada named Robbie.  They expect to increase their number to 10 or 12 kids right away.  Raoul will also bring a band for a visit to the prison on Monday. 
      We ate lunch at The Keep, and found that you can wait 2 hours for lunch.  We then went to see Sera's Caring Place and checked out all the boys and Margaret the house keeper.  We did 2 minor surgical procedures on 2 of the boys. These boys are so respectful and well-mannered you would never believe that they were streetboys not so long ago. 
     We then went to a place near Lake Victoria where a pair of girls with burn injuries live to redress their wounds.  They live in a house that looks like it had been bombed out, with several other families.  On the way home we stopped by the "supermarket" to buy some things for supper.  There were several boys, maybe four to 8 years old, begging outside the store.   These boys were all carrying plastic bottles with rags covered in super glue inside of them.  Paul told us to not give them anything, and before we left he told the boys that he would never give any money to anyone who was sniffing glue.  Two of the boys gave Paul their bottles, hoping that they would recieve money, but began chasing the van and beating on it to get their bottles back once we started to drive away. 

     ** Sunday, Feb 17.  We had the priveledge of worshipping in the Bugembe Worship Center, the tiny Bugembe church where we had done a clinic on thurday. We saw a  lot of energy and freedom of expression in their worship.  Paul Hunter was suprised when he was asked to be the guest speaker when we arrived, but did as well as if he had a sermon prepared.  We also gave away a crate of shoes and some reading glasses after the service.   We got out of church by 2 pm, had a light lunch, some a siesta, and some a hike around town.  Pam had hired a chef to prepare a special supper, and Raoul's band was here to practice for tomorrow's ministry at a prison, as well as to play for us.  We had a fantastic supper, then the reason for the party was revealed.  Dr. Klinger had asked Paul and Pam to help arrange this evening as an opportunity for him to propose to his wife of almost 30 years, and vows were renewed.  There were tears.  Valentines day was celebrateded just 3 days late.