The Long Journey Home-Home

The newest memory verse for our family is Zephaniah 3:17.

For the LORD your God has arrived to live among you.
He is a mighty savior.
He will rejoice over you with great gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears.
He will exalt over you by singing a happy song.

We feel like this is a testimony of our last year.
Over and over we sense that He has saved us.
We journeyed over 30,000 miles while in the states.
We reached 30 different states and had the blessing of seeing so many
dear friends and loved ones.
Hallelujah! Praise God Forever!
We sensed the saving, rejoicing, love, and exaltation of our God throughout.
He was faithful and carried us.

We have been without internet access for a while now, so please forgive our silence. We would be excited if we could get on line at home soon.

It has been a long journey the fifth of September when we left the states. We had a full day in London and the girls did remarkably well. We came into the country and fought with jet lag one night and embaced it fully the next two nights with mid-night showings of Curious George! We were delayed in Kampala a few days as our landlord began the list of repairs our home needed that we wrote together 8 months ago the day our plane landed and he was sure we were back! It was nice to be in the city a bit for some shopping anyway!

Then we were delayed even more as Lucy fell while playing and cut her forehead open.
We took her to the big International Hospital in Kampala. They wanted to glue it, but the glue was "finished." Billy ran to the pharmacy to try and find some...all "finished" there too! So, we went with the next best things and used a big bandage. She is healing nicely but we stayed an extra couple of days to have a follow up visit there.

We got to visit our dear friends Imam and Tina and their little two year old Angela in Kampala and had great time with our WGM colleagues there too.

Finally last Tuesday we began our journey north! The road has improved quite a bit since we left and we made the trip in just over seven hours. Hallelujah! Praise God Forever!

Some pictures from the journey...

The journey has been long, but the view was great at certain points!

The tembo (elephants) that we stopped to enjoy along the road from Kampala.

The view from on top of the "new" vehicle!

THANK YOU Indian Springs and Ooltewah UMC!!!

The girls this morning at breakfast.
Thankful to be Home-home, but still not sleeping so great through the night...a prayer request for sure!


With our dear friend Angela in Kampala.




Jesus has really blessed our families. When we first met Imam and Tina there were only four of us...now we are seven!!! Imam excitedly testified to all Jesus has continued teaching them in our time away! We praise God His word is ALIVE.

The cousins just before leaving America!

The girls saying good-bye at WGM in Marion, IN.