Know Him; Serve Him

During the last weeks in Uganda we visited one more eMIEA partner project (among multitudes of EMI-designed universities, hospitals, children's homes, churches, transition homes, medical centers, safe houses, etc. scattered over East Africa)  The newly finished Cherish Uganda medical center will soon be used by residents of the surrounding villages and by the many orphans Cherish Uganda houses, schools, feeds, and loves.

The open-air waiting area has (1)sliding grillwork,

                2)pine and metal benches and (3)light fixtures from leftover pipe, all of  which are currently designed and made in the new eMIEA mechanical shop at Kajjansi.

An additional outside seating area worked into the landscaping takes care of overflow patients,
 and an open-air pavilion serves for staff training purposes.

 

We also did some "behind the scenes" feeding at the Wildlife Research Center

(you can see Paula is having a ball!)

 

 

and inspected the ongoing progress on the new office shared and already occupied by eMIEA (top floor) and Mission Aviation Fellowship (main level) in Kajjansi, Uganda.

 

A couple of MAF's planes ready for engine checks are dwarfed by the typical "hills of Uganda", one of the many things it was hard to leave in this beautiful land of a gentle people with so many deep needs.

 

I arrived back in Sarasota, Florida on September 4th, tired, but, hopefully, a little wiser, with a piece of my heart still back in Uganda.  I ask for your prayers for the additional staff needed for eMIEA to say "yes" to more of the numerous organizations desiring to partner with eMIEA..... to be God's hand in helping to meet even more of those desperate needs - spiritually, physically, and emotionally - of the Ugandan people.  

Will I go back to Uganda? - Yes, Lord willing. 

Would I consider staying?  That would depend on the guidance of the Lord, as I listen for the Holy Spirit's prompting and as I continue to (slowly) learn to live each moment for Him.  I thank God for His patience and grace with me, for the opportunities He's given me this year, and for the witness of a daily life of sacrifice for the sake of the Kingdom that I've seen from both EMI and MAF families.   

 

"Let each of you esteem and be concerned for not merely his own interests,
but also each for the interests of others.
Let this same attitude be in you which was in Christ Jesus
Who, although being essentially one with God....
stripped Himself of all privileges so as to assume the guise of a servant....
and abased and humbled Himself
and carried His obedience to the extreme of death,
even death on a cross!"

                                                                                                                    Philippians 2:4-8 Amplified Bible