Mail Call

We have four little girls four and under only 8 more days! Elsie Jayne reminds us multiple times daily she will make 5 soon!!!

The reality of these wee ones is that I am asking Jesus daily how to walk with Him and share His love from our home...He often answers in unique ways.

 

When some of our friends went for Home Assignment in the UK 6 months ago, they asked us to help with a ministry they had been a part of for friends in South Sudan. We gladly agreed. We collect mail for a mission compound a two hour flight north of Arua. They have a post box here in town. We hold it until a flight is coming and then we go and meet the plane and send their mail up every few weeks.

 

The mail was stacking up and we heard they were looking for some things, so we organized this week to meet the plane... only the day we were to meet the pilot, our visitors were also scheduled to be in Nebbi for a pastors training. That meant, four little girls, one mama, a stack of parcels and no transport to the plane.

The girls DELIGHTED in finding the solution to our problem!
"Let's all ride on bodas to the airfield mom!!!"

 

There are a lot of things I do allow my kids to do that many might think crazy depending on your context, but riding on a motorcycle thru town is not one of them! I have taken both big girls to clinics this way when no vehicle was around, but it's not the way I thought we should spend our morning this past Tuesday. Rather, Uncle Simon was roped into the mission to ride with the parcels to the airfield and Lucy was THRILLED to be chosen to go with him to hire the two bikes and bring them to the house!

We watched the men load the parcels and Uncle Simon went with them. He met the pilot to hand over the goods and our friends have reported to us that they are delighted with their mail!  The girls and I are thankful to be a link between our friends in South Sudan and their post box here in Arua!