February Uganda Prayer & Praise
Pictured above: Mama Grace Kirya (GSM Uganda Board Member) at her 89th birthday celebration with our team.
THE RESULTS ARE IN!!
Both Senior 4 and Primary 7 students passed their exams well. For the first year of the new curriculum, there was an extra level of anxiety for the students and the teachers, but the students shined. They had a big celebration with 2 goats - a great reward for a job well done.
As they were having their celebration, a beautiful thing happened. Do you remember Truly, who died from Leukemia last year, and his brother Maurice who died on a boda boda after that? Their parents came to the school. Karen, their mom told Osborn:
All of our children went through GSM. We still have many questions why I lost 2 sons within a year. They loved you and they loved this school. What is so different about this place?
They spent the day together with Osborn and different ones in the garden. As they were getting ready to leave, Karen said "I don't know what has happened to me, but I am feeling better than I have in a long time." She invited Osborn to their house. The father cried when Osborn said he would come. He said "You are are too busy to bother coming to our house." but Osborn promised to be there. These boys and their family are a precious part of the GSM family, and the healing of their hearts is worth it all.
We have prayer requests as we prepare for our fundraiser Fashion Show put on by Sam's Attic. We are still selling tickets - $30 each - until Monday, Feb. 24. (Event is March 1st, 10am). Pray for a good turn out and a wonderful morning of ministry and fun.
We have been gifted 8 lap top computers that we will be taking to Uganda in March. We have need of the operating systems for each of them. Each one needs $62 to get them running. We are hoping to purchase a couple more to take with us, but funding is always the issue. If you would like to be a part of this, please let me know. We will be making that ask at our fashion show also. The computers we have now were given about 10 years ago and they had been refurbished computers taken out of service from the Sisters School District. A beautiful gift, but well past their time.
Food trucks are everywhere searching for food to buy. Refugees from Congo are pouring in, so food scarcity issues have been severe. We praise the Lord we were able to purchase food in bulk early this year!
God be with you. Amen and amen.
