tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2853327298032571212024-03-13T07:46:53.146+02:00Ken & Bev - Still serving HimAfter serving God in Rwanda with the Rafiki Foundation, helping to build a village for orphan children from 2006 to 2010, Ken is back in Africa working as project manager with Poured Out For The Nations at the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. The project is focusing on developing clean water for the orphans at the Emmaus Global Outreach Primary School, as well as for crop irrigation. Secondary goals are funding for the schools 10 teachers and feeding the children a nutritious morning meal.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-33013564334516295352018-05-30T21:19:00.001+02:002018-05-30T21:19:35.314+02:00Immediate need: Guardhouse <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">If you have been following this “Send It Ahead” project you know that the water well is in and is producing water for the school and surrounding community. As part of the well project we have to have security at the well pump site, that’s just how it is in Africa, which is not much different than here. In order to continue with the security we have to build a guard house and a security fence around the well pump. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">We do not have the funds to complete this phase of the project, but our brother, Pastor Lewi, has started the building in faith. The local people have made the mud bricks and Pastor Lewi has hired a mason to start the building. He has also had loads of stone delivered to build the security wall. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">I have been working with Pastor Lewi on the budget for this project and he is about $650 into it and praying for funds to come. I am estimating the total funds needed for this phase will be about $1000. He has told the workers and the venders that he will try to pay them on June 1st. That’s 2 days from now. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">“SEND IT AHEAD”</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">If you can help we have a number of ways for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.pouredoutforthenations.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">www.pouredoutforthenations.com</span></a> click on </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">SUPPORT</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;"> at the top of the page, there you will find an area to donate by </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">PAYPAL</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;"> or a button for online </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">EGIVING</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">please it is very important to make sure you designate</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;"> your tax deductible donation to “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Send It Ahead</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">” or simply “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;">SIA</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Food, Teachers or Building Project. There is an area for you to type in your designated gift on both sites, look for the “comments section” or “special notes”. For those that rather give by personal check: make check payable to, “Poured Out For The Nations” with “Send It Ahead” and designation in the note area. Mail to: Poured Out For The Nations, Send It Ahead Project, P.O. Box 564, Pearland, TX 77588.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Short term goals, those items and concerns that can be developed over the next 12 months. All concerns are of course funding dependent and we are prayerfully waiting on God’s timing as we continue to work as funding allows.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Add piping and storage tank to have water readily available at the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Providing children with a morning meal.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Full funding of teachers salaries, $100 per month for each of the 10 teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Providing a monthly salary to resident guard, $50 per month.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Construct an adequate female toilet facility for visiting short term workers.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Provide full salary for Pastor Lewi, $500 per month.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We have certainly been blest to see God move as he has provided over the past 12 months. God’s people have responded to the critical needs of these orphans and vulnerable children in pray and sacrificial giving. Our team stand in awe as we have observed what you all have helped to accomplish. We give all glory and praise to the Lord, but we also give you all a truly heartfelt thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a number of ways for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.pouredoutforthenations.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.pouredoutforthenations.com</span></a> click on </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">SUPPORT</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> at the top of the page, there you will find an area to donate by </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">PAYPAL</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> or a button for online </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">EGIVING</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">please it is very important to make sure you designate</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> your tax deductible donation to “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Send It Ahead</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">” or simply “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">SIA</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Food or Teachers. You can also give to the SIA general fund or individual team members travel accounts. There is an area for you to type in your designated gift on both sites, look for the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">“comments section”</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> or </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">“special notes”</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">. For those that rather give by </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">personal check:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> make check payable to, “Poured Out For The Nations” with </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">“Send It Ahead”</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> or simply “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">SIA</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">” and any special designations in the note area. Mail to: Poured Out For The Nations, Send It Ahead Project, P.O. Box 564, Pearland, TX 77588.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Praise God we are back in Uganda at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement. I cannot begin to tell you how precious these dear children are. Nor the dedication, far above the call of duty, of our partner and dear friend Pastor Muhoza Lewi (Lay-we), he is such a special man of God that we compare him as a modern day George Muller. I will tell you more about him later in another posting.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTiPYDN2AkjazLCJKsRR9oFIs9tjetTF7hVfMTd87JsXt7_lj7ZGcaAy9XiCWXBf1-bD-tvTDqgTgCo9YZ4wegK8juW94oc4bt5fl6obzIKbPZ1emIZkZJWL-V6yx1X0SWOUKj5bLoOhA/s1600/20180331_122057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTiPYDN2AkjazLCJKsRR9oFIs9tjetTF7hVfMTd87JsXt7_lj7ZGcaAy9XiCWXBf1-bD-tvTDqgTgCo9YZ4wegK8juW94oc4bt5fl6obzIKbPZ1emIZkZJWL-V6yx1X0SWOUKj5bLoOhA/s320/20180331_122057.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We had such a very special and productive team meeting this morning. There were a number items we needed to discuss in a face to face team meeting and those are hard to schedule when your team is spread all over the world. For those who do not know our team consists of Pastor Dov Schwarz from Israel, Dee Warren from Texas, Pastor Muhoza Lewi from Uganda, and myself from Washington state. Our project is called “SEND IT AHEAD” because we all know when we die we cannot take anything with us, but our Lord has said you can lay up your treasures in heaven, so you can send them ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">One of the primary issues that was resolved was that there had been some confusion about the number of children being supported and educated at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in southwest Uganda. When our team came together in Uganda about a year ago agreeing to do what we could for these orphans and vulnerable children on this refugee camp, there were 367 children enrolled at the school. About 6 months later when I returned to Uganda to oversee the drilling of a water well, there were 586 children enrolled. That was a very large increase when you’re operating on a very tight budget depending on God’s grace from month to month. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">During our meeting it was learned that we were still only supporting the original 367, the other 219 children were children that recently arrived in the refugee camp and other schools were not available. The UN had asked Pastor Lewi if he could take them at Emmaus for short term, until they could find a more permanent solution. So for you who have been thankfully helping to financially support this program the number of children in the program remains at 367.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5mrJQH81wpsE1WdBosrN0RHkSW7ML4n270ZTh1M-5jbWVsKLBuDXF2_nwTIjnMTe_5AspAhVEWjL8Ab9i6MMvXtrnb3B-Yv-zFynU0gQFfd4Xx46jJ19_X14QP1_CNmjfEm3_9Ta7Bg/s1600/water+well.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe5mrJQH81wpsE1WdBosrN0RHkSW7ML4n270ZTh1M-5jbWVsKLBuDXF2_nwTIjnMTe_5AspAhVEWjL8Ab9i6MMvXtrnb3B-Yv-zFynU0gQFfd4Xx46jJ19_X14QP1_CNmjfEm3_9Ta7Bg/s320/water+well.jpg" title="" width="240" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">You may all not know that we had quite a scare with our new drilled water well about a month ago. I received word from Pastor Lewi that the children had no water coming from the well. When asked the reason he did not know because he was sick and in the hospital. We knew the well was a low volume producer and I was afraid that it was dry (my lack of faith). My wife, God bless her, assured me that God would not have brought this project this far just to abandon those precious children. So, repenting of my lack of faith, I was able to contact Living Water International, who drilled the well, and they sent a technician for an inspection . It turned out to be a mechanical problem and they had to change out the pump and plunger. So, praise God the well is back online and supplying the needs of the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a ways for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.pouredoutforthenations.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.pouredoutforthenations.com</span></a> click on </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">SUPPORT</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> at the top of the page, there you will find an area to donate by </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">PAYPAL</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> or a button for online </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">EGIVING</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">please it is very important to make sure you designate</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> your tax deductible donation to “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Send It Ahead</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">” or simply “</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">SIA</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Food or Teachers. There is an area for you to type in your designated gift on both sites, look for the “comments section” or “special notes”. For those that rather give by personal check: make check payable to, “Poured Out For The Nations” with “Send It Ahead” in the note area. Mail to: Poured Out For The Nations, Send It Ahead Project, P.O. Box 564, Pearland, TX 77588.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-78517608081277856102018-01-14T18:52:00.001+02:002018-01-14T19:52:46.271+02:00Next trip - March 2018<br />
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<span style="color: #4a4a54; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">I will be going back to Uganda in March to check the progress of our projects. I have had a few people ask me how they could help toward my travel expenses. Anyone can simply make a donation to the Send It Ahead program and add "Ken Merrill travel", in the memo. Thanks to all who have supported this project.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">During this next trip our team, Pastor Dov, Dee Warren and myself, will be going together, the dates for this trip will be March 22 through April 2. My focus will be on planning the security wall and guards house around the water well pump. This portion of the project is dependent on the local users of the water well to supply the labor for the making of the blocks and the construction of the wall and attached house. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Right now we are paying salaries for 3 guards to watch over the well around the clock. By constructing the wall and house we can cut that expense down to one guard who will live on site. There will be some construction materials cost. The largest costs will be for the metal roofing and some cement for the plaster to cover the walls. The material for the walls will be mud blocks which will be made on site. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">This phase is where the local users will make an active investment and will have actual ownership in the project. We feel this is a very important part as we want to be in partnership with the people not simply be seen as giving a handout to them. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Pastor Dov will be preaching and conducting a pastors conference. Dee will be working with the children and the women. As always our number one goal is to lead people to a saving knowledge of God’s grace, and as Jesus commanded to “go and make disciples”. All our “projects” in Uganda will do nothing more than hopefully improve their physical lives for a moment in time. But their salvation and discipleship will have eternal consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Something else we will be doing this trip, that you all can be praying about is that our whole team will be sitting down together to prayerfully go over our program, projects and goals. We feel that it is extremely important to, not only know where we are going, but to ensure we are going where God is leading and that all we do is in His will.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can “SEND IT AHEAD”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">“Send It Ahead - Ken Merrill, travel”</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"> program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-11978474537473667512018-01-02T23:28:00.001+02:002018-01-02T23:32:56.351+02:00Recap of December trip<br />
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the water well is now in operation and producing good clean water. The water
testing report has been received and all tests are well within the government
standards for human drinking water. This water will meet the needs of the
primary school, the future clinic, as well as the members of the adjacent
community. It was indeed amazing to watch as the people celebrated and praised
God for having this gift of water available to them. <br />
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wonderful as this water is the project is far from finished. The water well is
now operated be means of a hand pump and is located over 200 meters downhill from
the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A solar pump needs to
be added to the well and two 10,000-liter storage tanks placed on top of a
water tower near the school still need to be constructed. This will ensure an
adequate water reservoir and enough water pressure to supply the needs of
kitchen, school and clinic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
thank God for everyone who gave and prayed for this project and we humbly ask
for your continued prayers as this project goes into the next phase.</div>
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leading up to the school buildings where the water tanks will be located. The
red line continues at 90- degrees to the area where the clinic buildings are located.
There is also a red line from the lake to the top of the field area indicating
where a pump could be located to pump irrigation water from the lake in order
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our main goal
for this trip was to bring clean water to these children but we were also
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school was also in dire need of lesson books and classroom supplies. And again
we are thankful to God for the people who donated to the purchase of textbooks,
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maps, and classroom benches. An education is really
the only hope these children have of getting out of the poverty they are now
living in. Of course teachers are the key to a good education and the teachers
at the primary school are working at half salaries. The school has already lost
a couple of very good teachers because of this. If you can help with a
sustaining gift designated for teacher’s salaries please go to the web site to
designate your tax-deductible donation. And please pray for these children and
their teachers.<br />
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thing that was accomplished during this trip was the showing of the Jesus film
to over 1000 people. It was a challenge to find and take the necessary
equipment to show the film in several different languages in an area that has
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people who could help us in gathering that equipment. <br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have given information on how you
can help below, but you can also further designate your gift to specifically
helping the water project, teachers, or food. On your check or in the comments
for Palpal or Egiving, write in Send It Ahead Project – Water, Teachers, or
Food. That way your funds will go totally in support of that part of the
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you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to </span><a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="color: #223344; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> click
on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate
your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. While you’re at
the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-64421558639509708092017-12-24T19:34:00.003+02:002017-12-24T22:15:13.756+02:00Tragic news<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.7px;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Sad news from Pastor Lewi. One of the orphan children at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school has drowned while swimming in the lake with some of the other children. The child was 13 years old and his name was Gisamaza. At last report his body had not yet been recovered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Gisamaza's body has been recovered and the funeral has been completed.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Our driver has been having trouble with the bank for a period of time. They have messed up his paperwork then when going back to get it resolved they were out of the forms he needed. I know how frustrating it can be when dealing with government agencies. But when I asked him if he had gotten the issue taken care of, he said, “no, the thing is disturbing me even up to now”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">For some reason the lights in hotel rooms are very dim. There may be only one or two lights in the room and those will be of a very low wattage. The bathroom is especially bad. If you want to see when you shave then carry a decent flashlight with you. And there will be no electric outlets in the bathroom so if you use a plug in electric razor you may be out of luck. Even in the hotel room there may be only one outlet, so you must prioritize which device you want to charge in what order.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Drivers will come up behind a vehicle they want to overtake and you can see that it is clear to go around, but instead of keeping up their speed and pass the vehicle, they will slow down behind and then pull out and try to regain the momentum they have lost. Most vehicles are underpowered for the loads they are carrying so trying to build up that momentum again is difficult and takes a lot <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Always have bottled water with you. If you are low buy more before running out. Use the bottled water for brushing your teeth. You just never know how or if the water coming out of the tap has been treated, never trust it to drink. Bottled water is cheap and can be the cheapest insurance against a nasty stomach problem. Don’t be like most of us that have had to learn this lesson the hard way. Another important reason to always having water with you is to stay hydrated, the sun is intense near the equator and it is a dry climate. Your body will require a larger amount of liquids than normal. You will need to drink, drink, drink, do not wait until you are thirsty. You should be taking in 2 or 3 liters minimum every day.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">It is a long plane ride from the states to Africa no matter which airlines you use. Some are better than others and over the years we have used most of them. Like airlines so also there are huge differences in airports. Some of the airports in Europe are like maneuvering through a very large shopping mall. They can be places you look forward to flying into to spend a lay over. Others, especially in some of the African countries are not so nice and in my opinion I will avoid them if at all possible costs. It may make a difference to you which airline you would prefer to fly on based on what frequent flyer program you belong to. You have to look for their partner airlines. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">more interested they become. There are very few whites on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement Camp. So some of the babies will actually be terrified of you and your white skin. But most of them will be yelling at you as we ride by, just announcing your presence, some will ask for money, but all are very precious. When you get out of a vehicle many will want to touch your skin or hair and hold your hand as you walk along. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">That is but one of many observations you will make that is foreign to you and our culture. Always give people the benefit of the doubt, many people you meet will seem gruff or a little hostile, that feeling almost always is the wrong impression and as soon as you speak to greet them their whole countenance changes. They are warm and welcoming if you are. Do not expect an American experience, expect the unexpected and enjoy the African experience and participate in their culture.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This project is far from being completed. This is only the first phase and we are thanking God for the provision of this water. But we need to continue the project in order to get the water up the hill to the school and clinic. That will require a solar pump, piping and a water storage tower. Please continue to pray for this project and consider what your part may be in helping to bring this project to completion.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I have given information on how you can help below, but you can also further designate your gift to specifically helping the water project. On your check or in the comments for Palpal or Egiving, write in “Send It Ahead Project - Water” or Teachers or Food. That way your funds will go totally in </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I am hoping to update these posts with photos when I get home. So come back often and check for any updates. Thank you for praying for and financially supporting these children. Good health and a good education can be the step out of poverty for these children.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The continuing challenges for these children are overwhelming. The mere fact they are alive is a miracle when considering most have traveled hundreds of miles through some very hostile environments just to be in a refugee camp in southern Uganda. Many have had to witness atrocities we cannot even imagine. With your help we can give them a chance for a better life, a way out of the abject poverty they now live in. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Please pray for the children, for the teachers, and the staff, for continuing funding for the much needed projects yet to be accomplished. Please ask God if you should be a vital partner in financially helping these children. The book of James says that pure and undefiled religion is the caring for widows and orphans. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kb1KGH8bdDz19HC6TTb66pKHo-j-mOr3JOcJOyliyejzUNmftlHq0LxUteGhgubm3FweNZb553b4CdTrEtRU4nKuFsBKBpKRTqU8BcdwCeHqRSW7SqHEWmC97yTdJSRZxVBEALgHO9g/s1600/David.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kb1KGH8bdDz19HC6TTb66pKHo-j-mOr3JOcJOyliyejzUNmftlHq0LxUteGhgubm3FweNZb553b4CdTrEtRU4nKuFsBKBpKRTqU8BcdwCeHqRSW7SqHEWmC97yTdJSRZxVBEALgHO9g/s200/David.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Teachers is one of our main issues that remains to be funded. The water was definitely a blessing in helping them to stay healthy and the next issue of food will also help them to live a healthier life. But stable salaries for the teachers are desperately needed in order to give these 600 children a chance of a better life. Education is their only hope of breaking free of the abject poverty they are now living in. There are now 11 teachers and 2 nurses taking care of these 600 children. Their salaries are only $100 per month, we have no money coming in on a consistent basis to pay them. In the past 8 months there has been a couple of teachers that just had to leave to find a more stable pay check. (And who can blame them when some months they get 1/2 salaries and some months less than that). </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I do not have hard figures as yet and probably won’t until we can actually start this program. But in talking with the teachers and the school director, Pastor Lewi, we believe we could feed 600 children a cup of porridge in the mornings for about $100 a week. Again there may have to be some adjustments when the program is actually up and running and there are some start costs, buying a large cooking pot and cups for the children, but I believe we are in the ballpark.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-TJgxUU1D2jsAPAx1zmZCWpG2s1f93xy5gXoDp27RXZzftgzwuLMX8pSUUcb_6TERH30M9LPaeotfZCC-mcE1E_G5wzBCDkqd-VO3KjqOxz4zGVkKyGM37-mRuei5iOnDnxV4QjxpEA/s1600/friends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-TJgxUU1D2jsAPAx1zmZCWpG2s1f93xy5gXoDp27RXZzftgzwuLMX8pSUUcb_6TERH30M9LPaeotfZCC-mcE1E_G5wzBCDkqd-VO3KjqOxz4zGVkKyGM37-mRuei5iOnDnxV4QjxpEA/s320/friends.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">It is with many mixed emotions that I am leaving Uganda and the wonderful people at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement area. It has been such and honor and privilege for me to fellowship with this group of Christ loving people for the past couple of weeks. We have been able to give glory to God in his goodness and faithfulness to these brothers and sisters now living in the Refugee Camp in Uganda. It is heartbreaking to hear their </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Wow, what a trip this has been. I am praising God for all that has been accomplished in this past two weeks in our continuing efforts to bring water, food and teachers to the children at the school. If asked what was the biggest achievement, I would have to say it is the water well. The water well has been drilled and the hand pump install, the water has been tested and it is good clean water that should last for many, many years. This, in it self, will save lives and reduce the spread of disease. And along with having the clean water was the health presentation by Living Water International. If the people will simply implement the procedures taught to them it would drastically improve the health of the residents of that area.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZQ-mgfwnbVEGoAT9xnzrV-kviqgMJk2WJuxLQAfwCiwPZGCpYBRFV7mKp0ISAYmNKQwVctL8FhuqBRDMF56AEz-SDFTvYIrKm4IGma3xtvFpCm0tVQnwKtrvMaBHpWCwLGj5ac_2pZOQ/s1600/J.F.+New+Vision.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZQ-mgfwnbVEGoAT9xnzrV-kviqgMJk2WJuxLQAfwCiwPZGCpYBRFV7mKp0ISAYmNKQwVctL8FhuqBRDMF56AEz-SDFTvYIrKm4IGma3xtvFpCm0tVQnwKtrvMaBHpWCwLGj5ac_2pZOQ/s320/J.F.+New+Vision.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We also need to install fencing of some kind and hire a guard to keep the area near the well clean and secure. We do not want the unit vandalized or have children playing around the well or have animals potentially polluting the immediate area. This will become even more important when we are able to add a solar pump. I was able to meet with some experts in the solar pump technology and was amazed at the number of solar panels it will take to run the pump. The solar panel array will cover a significant area and is very susceptible to vandalism and thieves. One possible solution is to build a guard house around the well and place the solar panel array on the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">There are still many vital needs remains for this “Send It Ahead” project. That is where you can be an indispensable part of this ministry. These children need your continuing help in getting the water to the location where it can be most ready used and a fence is also part of that need. There is also a need for a sustained wage for a guard that will live near the well for security and needed for maintaining the pump. As well as the salaries for the teachers and nurses.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The Bible tells us not to store up treasure houses here on earth. I know right now there are some people that need to open their store houses and give to God’s work for these children in Uganda.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can “SEND IT AHEAD”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I am hoping to update these posts with photos when I get home. So come back often and check for any updates. Thank you for praying for and financially supporting these children. Good health and a good education can be the step out of poverty for these children.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">A student representative from each class gave thanks to all of you who have given to make this project possible. I was able to visit each class to take a few photos and video. It is interesting to see them in class as they have no textbooks or writing implement; pens, pencils, paper, or notebooks. The teachers asked questions and the students answer. It is all done by memory. At least the teachers will have access to a textbook for each subject. One of the biggest hits was a large dictionary, the school has never had a dictionary before. All the subjects are taught in English, which will be good for the students down the line but think about trying to do all your school work from memory and in a language that is not your native language. These children are amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We were just finishing up with the school supplies when the three member team from Living Water International, Uganda arrived at the school. They came with a team to teach the people who will be using the well how to operate it and maintain it. They also did a health class that was very interesting and they had a pastor to give glory to God. Pastor Lewi also thanked God and all the sponsors who have given to this project. You just cannot imagine what a blessing it is for these people to have access to a near by clean water supply. When the speeches and teaching ended everyone walk down to the well.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This project is far from being completed. This is the first phase and we are thanking God for the provision of this water. But we need to continue the project in order to get the water up the hill to the school and clinic. That will require a solar pump, piping and a water storage tower. Please continue to pray for this project and consider what your part may be in helping to bring this project to completion.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I have given information on how you can help below, but you can also further designate your gift to specifically helping the water project. On your check or in the comments for Palpal or Egiving, write in Send It Ahead Project - Water. That way your funds will go totally in support of the the water project.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can “SEND IT AHEAD”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">not enjoy it as much as my good friend Pastor Lewi though. I have seen some big eaters over the years and many of those were within my own family. Our clan could put away some groceries. How our poor mother kept up with a husband and 5 voracious eaters I will never know, but I digress. When Pastor Lewi orders a meal it is enough to feed the troops and I believe he could eat that size meal three times in a day. Now before you think my good friend is a glutton, I want to set the record straight. I said I thought he could eat three of those meals per day, not that he does. Yes, when we are here on a visit for a week he eats quite well, but when he are not here food is much less available. And even when we are here we normally only eat two meals per day. We usually have a decent breakfast at the hotel and then a late lunch or supper, depending on when we return. But when the Pastor lights into a half of a fried chicken to is a sight to behold. When has finished there is nothing left on the plate except for a few pieces of the <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I actually eat a lot of fish when I am here. That is the one thing I’ve found that will be fairly consistent from place to place. Normally they will have a minimum of two fish selections on the menu; one will be a fish fillet which will be served with rice, chips (French fries) or both. The other will be a whole fish fried up and looking at you on the plate. It is very good but some people have problem with their food looking back at them. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">A couple times a week I’ll have a chapati for lunch. A chapati is a flat bread fried in a shallow pan of very hot oil. Some places will fry them with less oil than others but they are pretty greasy no matter where you get them. There is a small shop on the way to Nakivale that we stop at almost every day to buy chapati. As I said I only eat one a couple times while I’m here but I always buy a few everyday to give out to the cow and goat boys we pass on the Nakivale Settlement. Maama Ssonko is the name of the shop, did not misspell it that is how it is written on the shop. Maama Ssonko is a heavy set lady who sits on the ground and takes the money for the chapati. She sits because she is missing one leg. She is a very friendly person who loves to joke around with Pastor Lewi. She has a crew of three or four helpers around that are all busy either pulling the dough into just the right size balls, </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">or rolling out the dough to the exact thickness, which is very thin. Then placing the thin sheets of dough into the pan of hot oil. The technical part comes now with the person who knows when to raise the edge of the dough up enough to let air get in between dough and hot fat. That makes the chapati puff up and the thin dough becomes a thick fried bread, then he knows when to turn them over and the correct doneness. And he does all this with a long stick like you would roast a marshmallow with. Anyway, Maama Ssonko does a very large business, people are stopping all day long and come from miles away for her chapati. They go through 75 kilos a day of chapati dough. Oh, when I said shop you may have the wrong impression. There is a shop of kind it is about a 10 x 10 building, mostly <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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filled with young kids and babies. The cooking operation takes place in front on a dirt floor, under a tin lean-to, the under side of the tin is so thick with black smoke that am sure you could scrape it off. It is one of the days highlights to stop and listen to banter between Lewi and the crew.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">That is where you can be an vital part of this ministry. These children need your help in getting them a morning meal that they desperately need. The Bible tells us not to store up treasure houses here on earth. I know right now there are some of you that need to open your store houses and give to God’s work to these children in Uganda. Will you help the Lord to bless these children with a cup of porridge?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Today marked the fourth full showing of the Jesus Film in its several different formats. I say full because our very first attempt did not go well. I knew there would be challenges showing the film in areas with no electricity. It took some searching but I was able to come up with a combination of mini battery operated projector and a back up battery pack, external speaker and enough cords and plugs to start my own electronics shop. I tested it out before I left home and thought I had the bugs worked out of it. But TIA (you’ll have to look back in previous posts to see definition of TIA).</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The battery in the projector even with the battery pack would not power the unit long enough to watch a whole film. I was glad the first showing was to the children. We explained that this was the preview of what they would see tomorrow. The two next showings we hooked the projector up to a car battery through a transformer. That seemed to work very well. We were able to show the children’s film and the women’s film with no problems.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The children’s film I have is only in English. For the children at the Emmaus Global Outreach school that is not so much of an issue because they are taught English, plus this is a good practice tool for they English lessons. But in the church we were in today the children did not speak much English so we are showing the regular Jesus Film in Kinyarwanda. And the women’s Film we showed in Swahili. I do wish the children’s film was in Kinyarwanda, that is their native language and it is what is spoken in the homes and around the village. So I believe they would get more out of it if it was in their native language.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">When we showed the children’s film at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school there were appropriately 300 children in attendance. That has been our largest crowd, and I think it may have been to large. The people in the back had a hard time seeing and hearing. For the women’s Film there were about 75 in attendance. I know there were a few, maybe a dozen of the children that raised hands to make a decision to follow Christ after the film. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Today we had a mixed group of about 200 people but with more children than adults. So we started showing the children’s film in English. This was when we learned the children did not know English so we switched to the regular Jesus Film in Kinyarwanda. And again we had about 75 ladies for the women’s Film which we showed in Swahili.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Water update. We need to build a fence around the well. We contacted a fencing contractor that works on the Settlement for a bid on the job. Our need is for a fairly small enclosure about 15m x 45m. We were amazed by the extremely high price for such a small job. It was way out of our price range. These contractors are used to doing business with large NGO’s that do not have the budget constraints that we have. We will now put up a block wall that we can do with local labor with a much smaller price tag. But it will still cost money that we do not have at this time.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">That is where you can be an vital part of this ministry. These children need your help in getting them the water they desperately need and a fence is part of that need. The Bible tells us not to store up treasure houses here on earth. I know right now there are some of you that need to open your store houses and give to God’s work to these children in Uganda.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The thing that really made up my mind to see another hotel was that the road to this hotel goes through the only golf course in town. And on days that they have high government officials playing or have a tournament they simply close the road off to all traffic. This makes it significantly more difficult to leave the hotel, trying to find alternate routes of travel. Almost all of the side roads, anything off the main roads through Mbarra, are very poor. They have been neglected for many many years. At one time most had been paved but the asphalt has been chipped away from the edges making a one lane road of pot holes. And the edges have been eroded by rain and traffic over the past decades.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The traffic in and around Mbarra is extremely congested, not as bad as Kampala but very bad. Drivers have no respect for lane markings or even divided highways. If there is a traffic jam going in one direction then people will cross over and drive into on coming traffic in opposite lane. You add to that mess about 10 motorbike taxis for every car and they are flying around in every direction like a swam of bees. And of course you have the larger taxis, about the size of an old VW bus, that carry about 18 to 20 people with all their worldly possessions tied onto the top and you have a pretty good picture of the traffic.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Once we get out of the city area we have approximately 34 miles to travel from Mbarra to the school on the Nakivale Settlement. The main road is 21 miles of really nice asphalt highway, the only real challenge is the extreme speed bumps they use in every little community that you pass trough. And of course you have the herds of cattle and goats that are free grazing along the <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">At the end of that 21 miles of good highway you enter the Nakivale Settlement road system. There are probably hundreds of dirt road miles that crisscross the 75 square miles of the Settlement. We have to travel on about 13 of those miles. These roads are ether very dusty when dry or very slick when wet. And wet or dry they are terribly rough with pot holes, washboards and washout areas from heavy rains. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I do need to make it clear that even though there are a number of challenges we face here and the driving and traffic being just a part of that, the end result of being able to help these precious children is more than worth it. I tell you about the challenges not to make it sound difficult or that we are not happy doing this work. It is because the way of life here is so very different than most people will every encounter. We truly love the people here, they are the most friendly and welcoming that you will ever meet anywhere. We are truly humbled daily by their generosity and love for us. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Poured Out For The Nations is a very small organization. We are not like the huge NGO’s like World Vision, USAID, Compassion, or any number of others. We do not have lots of money to throw at huge programs. We are trying to help 600 orphans live a healthier life, get an education and maybe have a few of them get to a place where they can get out of the poverty they are now in and go on to help others. These children are receiving a Bible based education from a cadre of dedicated teachers that is teaching them that to love others is more important than loving ones self. That God loves every one of them and that one day it may be one of them that will make a difference in someone else’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">That is where you can be an vital part of this ministry. These children need your help. The Bible tells us not to store up treasure houses here on earth. I know right now there are some of you that need to open your store houses and give to God’s work for these children in Uganda.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can “SEND IT AHEAD”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">This is the reason I am here on this trip. I thought the pumping and testing of the water well was taking place while I was flying here, which would have been Thursday and Friday November 30th and December 1st. But when I arrived Pastor Lewi said they were not there but would start the first of next week, Monday the 4th of December. On Monday we found out the Living Water pumping crew would start on Tuesday. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The crew did actually arrive on Monday evening and set tents to stay in near the well site. When we arrived at the well site on Tuesday morning the crew were all set up and had started the pumping process. I was actually able to have drink of water coming from the well. Maybe not my smartest move since no testing of the water had been completed but God has had this project from the beginning and I cannot believe He was going to kill me now for taking a first drink. We were able to take a short video of me </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwdaewGGhsbGcw_zwbeA568Dz1dGk1gMEB0DFaLnfOplViksBjY6wAlKz51ruHFaxC9ajPQl6VDsOdF0s008g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Once the pumping test was complete and samples had been taken to for the lab to test, the work began on installing the pump. This was quite a job since a cement basin and run-off trough had to be constructed. When the basin and trough had been completed we took another short video of using the hand pump for the first time. It was wonderful to see water coming from that pump after all the prayers and sacrifice people around the country and the world have been involved in.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">So the Living Water crew packed up and left on December 6th after making sure everything was in working order. They disabled the pump so that it could not be operated until after the dedication next week. Included in the dedication will be a time of prayer and praise for God’s provision as well as instruction in hygiene and well pump maintenance. This complete package is the reason we chose to have Living Water International as the drill team for this project. The good relationship we have had with the Ugandan team as well as the home office in Houston, Texas has been exceptional. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We are all here at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school in the Nakivale settlement, Uganda are praising God for his goodness and faithfulness even though we had fears and doubts. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We continue to ask for your prayers as this project is far from finished. Thank the Lord we have water, but right now it is 274 meters uphill to where it really needs to be. If you want to look us up on Google Earth the well coordinates are: </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">What we are calling phase 2 may in actuality have to be completed in several steps. First we have install a security fence around the well site, in order to keep out animals and vandals. Which we have absolutely no funding for.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Then we will have to buy pipe and dig a ditch for the pipe from the well site up to the school. At the school there will have be a water tower and tank installed. In order to get the water from the well to the storage tank will require a solar pump. We cannot even buy a pump or even get an estimated cost until we get the pumping report back.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Someone may ask what is the total cost in order to complete this entire project. I cannot answer that. At this time there are simply to many variables. But if there is someone out there that feels God to telling them to fund this project in its entirety, I can only assure you that we will be extremely diligent in reporting and accountability of every dollar or shilling spent.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Teachers, or Food. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-14185661567883761022017-12-07T07:50:00.000+02:002017-12-19T22:45:09.541+02:00Teachers and Nurses<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 13.1px;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHGNXOur7KLb88T2wgDdaA2bvE4MTZLrGy4KiHZEr8J11LhNivqKMP5cG4-ca9cqkMLh-4NRvC24hq50QqNC8cn561VPLdWabnHYAHCvNG0MJe5xFILJHJc71rUObddlJfHEQj8wZGaQ/s1600/teachers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHGNXOur7KLb88T2wgDdaA2bvE4MTZLrGy4KiHZEr8J11LhNivqKMP5cG4-ca9cqkMLh-4NRvC24hq50QqNC8cn561VPLdWabnHYAHCvNG0MJe5xFILJHJc71rUObddlJfHEQj8wZGaQ/s200/teachers.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The teachers at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school at Nakivale Uganda are some of the most dedicated young people you will find anywhere. In addition to the 10 teachers there are also two nurses on the school staff. All of them work many, many hours per week for a salary of $100 per month. Think about that for a moment and let it sink in. How long would $100 last us over a months time? Most of us will spend more than that on our morning coffee or any number of other unnecessary items over a months time. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Ok, now how many would continue in a job that could only pay you one-half of the salary you were promised? Which is exactly what these individuals are doing. Am I trying to lay a guilt trip on you? To be honest, yes. I would like to see a number of teachers adopt these teachers. And also nurses to adopt the nurses. I am not just speaking about their salaries, although that is a true need. I would like to see a connection, a relationship between these teachers and you and your classroom. Pray, pray, pray for these teachers and nurses. I wish each of you could come here to see the conditions they have to work in. Dirt floor classrooms, no teaching materials, if they have chalk it is a blessing.</span></div>
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someone is asking why do they have cell phones if they are that poor. Because cell phones are relatively cheap in Africa and there are no landlines in the Bush, but cell towers are all over. And they do not have monthly cell phone plans like most of us do. They have to buy “air time” and they are very frugal with using them. They only have to pay for out going calls, so they will “flash” each other. Make a call but hang up before the person answers. No one is charged but they know who has called them. Also they use WhatsApp and you can communicate all over the world for little or no cost.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Are there ten teachers out there who would pray about supporting a teacher for $100 per month? And a couple of nurses who would do the same. Are there 20 teachers who would give $50 a month. We would of course like to see a commitment of giving so that these teachers and nurses could feel secure that there pay would be there every month. But that is not to say we would not be overjoyed with your onetime gifts, anything you can do will drastically help to improve not only these teachers welfare but also the 586 students they teach. Just think of those class sizes.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I am not a computer genus, if fact I have trouble turning the thing on. Writing this blog is a big stretch for me. But I would like to add photos of the teachers at some point. Maybe I can figure out how to do that when I return to the states. I think it would be very helpful to you if you could see their faces and classrooms. I can make a google photos share album of the teachers and if you are serious about praying and/or supporting them I will add you to the share. You would have to contact me with your email address.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I have given information on how you can help below, but you can also further designate your gift to specifically helping teachers. On your check or in the comments for Palpal or Egiving, write in Send It Ahead Project - teachers. That way your funds will go totally in support of the teachers salaries. For nurses you would use the same format.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-23371422240781334642017-12-06T05:42:00.000+02:002017-12-19T22:17:58.706+02:00The work continues <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">As example our driver is handicapped I believe from Polio, so he has little or no use of his legs. In the US there are devices installed in vehicles so that it can be operated with hands only. This vehicle is not so equipped. Desire, that is our drivers name, has to use his right hand to grab his pants leg in order to lift his leg up and move his foot from throttle to brake and back again. This tends to add significant seconds to action time. But on the upside it keeps me praying.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_2KwWK8zUlKDuRJkQI32XJogF9u0ma1XZOIJCilqWdj-4f7EtN0r8Tq32hoCYrzpDL6Mr-sAetMuTpNyWqAFRvxeWlMiAUZk3z4A3ejUNd4nJ3QmXt0inpKQAYqVVhXRRg6WzdkBNuE/s1600/Nim+hotel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_2KwWK8zUlKDuRJkQI32XJogF9u0ma1XZOIJCilqWdj-4f7EtN0r8Tq32hoCYrzpDL6Mr-sAetMuTpNyWqAFRvxeWlMiAUZk3z4A3ejUNd4nJ3QmXt0inpKQAYqVVhXRRg6WzdkBNuE/s200/Nim+hotel.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I have changed hotels after four days. The first one appeared very nice, it is a new construction and the rooms were well outfitted. The problem was that it would run out of water, so no showers or flushing toilets. Plus they advertised good WiFi but it was so slow and weak that it was nearly impossible to get online. Which makes it very difficult to do any business and keep up with posts or share photos.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We have recognized an extra need that was not figured into our original budget. We will need a security fence around the water well, to keep out animals and vandals. So that is on my task list this week to get cost estimates for purchasing and installing a chain link fence. Please be praying that we can find a fencing contractor that will give us a reasonable price quote. The area we need to enclose is only 15m x 45m.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">These children are all refugees from more than a dozen war torn countries around East Africa. This Camp has been in existence for over 30 years and many people have made it there permanent homes. For them there is no going back to their native countries. The orphans have no real permanent home here, families have just taken them in so they have a place to sleep, but food is scarce. Some children may get a couple small meals a day but others may only get one and at times nothing for the day. This is another great need, to provide the children a morning meal of porridge. The sorghum flour and sugar for the porridge is fairly inexpensive but as with any program we want to begin here, above all we want it to be sustainable. To start a program no matter how good the intentions are and have it fail for lack of funding, not only gives a very bad impression of the organization but also is a very poor testimony before God.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Of course we we funding to sustain these programs but above all else we covert your prayers: for the children, for the teachers, for Pastor Lewi as he administers all aspects of the school, that we would find favor with businesses and organizations we have to deal with, for health of the team members that come to help.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. If you would like to further designate your gift to one of the programs, simply add “water”, “teachers”, or “food” after the “Send It Ahead.” While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAz3jrMI7OF9d-qbQuGR2B_GVROePiIg2C_uWacVuqeWVfcrsdgu0NTjYmvqKyUNTzPECkCDrVHswh6zCD0QtGkKVozmV5WoW8P-VQGMe7Z1mLlv7hGA1doAhJbi7IeBFDiP0Qf_O5iVo/s1600/Ken+speak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAz3jrMI7OF9d-qbQuGR2B_GVROePiIg2C_uWacVuqeWVfcrsdgu0NTjYmvqKyUNTzPECkCDrVHswh6zCD0QtGkKVozmV5WoW8P-VQGMe7Z1mLlv7hGA1doAhJbi7IeBFDiP0Qf_O5iVo/s200/Ken+speak.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I was asked by Pastor to say some words. Public speaking is not my forte, but by Gods grace I was able to greet them all from all those in the USA who have given and prayed for them and the whole water well project. I told the children that it was not important that they know me. I am just like some dust. I here for a little while then I am gone. It is eternal important that you know Jesus. God made us all out of dust and we are only living for a short time. He told us in Genesis that from dust we came and dust we will return. And when God gave us the breath of life we got a soul that will live forever. God wants all his children to live forever with Him in heaven, but we have all sinned and God cannot allow sin in his heaven, so He sent his Son Jesus Christ to die for our sin nature. Now we all can become children of God by telling God we are sorry for our sin and ask Him to forgive us and by believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I was fading fast by noontime as I was operating on less than 4 hours sleep due to our late night traveling adventures. But a lunch was being prepared for the elders and myself to enjoy. The food is typical of a simple Rwandan/Ugandan meal; beans, rice, chips (French fries), meat sauce, lugali (posho) and local fruits (pineapple, sweet banana, avocado). It was all very good, but it does take a while to prepare and serve. There are no stoves to cook on, the food is cooked over a charcoal burner or a pit fire. The utensils, cooking pots and pans as well as serving dishes are minimal at best. In most cases eating utensils (knives and forks) are reserved for eating with musungu (white person) honored guests. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Of course we need funding to sustain these programs for these children but above all else we covert your prayers: for the children, for the teachers, for Pastor Lewi as he administers all aspects of the school, that we would find favor with businesses and organizations we have to deal with, for health of the team members that come to help.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">If you can help we have a way for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to <a href="http://www.watchtherefore.tv/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">www.watchtherefore.tv</span></a> click on the donate button at the top of the page and please make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to the “Send It Ahead” program. If you would like to further designate your gift to one of the programs, simply add “water”, “teachers”, or “food” after the “Send It Ahead.” While you’re at the web site please click on the Send It Ahead button at the top of the page to look for more updates and photos from the school.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Of course the traffic was terrible but it was moving, even if it was a snails pace. Our driver got a little frustrated and anxious as we had seen a number of the Presidents guard vehicles scream by us, splitting the center lane, between north and south bound traffic. But to add to that each time a group would race by, with sirens screaming, there would be a trail of civilian vehicles following them. Our driver thought that was a good idea, so off we went trailing the next set of official vehicles. It really worked great and we were making excellent time, right up to the point that a police officer waved us over and escorted us to the nearest police station. I could see my hotel room fading fast and was afraid my next room was going to have bars on the windows. If I was lucky enough to have a window.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">We finally cross the equator and it is about midnight, my bedtime, and we are not yet halfway to Mbarra. So maybe another hour and a half. The good news is that we are finally out of traffic, the bad news is the driver thinks he’s Mario Andretti. When I got into this vehicle back at the airport I noticed that there wasn’t enough tread left on the tires to leave a print in a fresh snow. And the headlight plastic covers were so yellowed they would have tested positive for jaundice.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;"> Oh and gee, I forgot to mention, we are in the middle of nowhere at 1:30 in the morning, literally in the middle of Africa and we run out of gas. When you fly into the Entebbe airport you cannot simply go to the local Hertz counter to rent a vehicle. You have to have someone hire a car and driver for so ever how many days you are going to be in the country. And most people in Uganda do not have a lot of free cash just laying around the house, so you pay them half up front and the balance when you leave. So I had just handed to our vehicles owner two million Ugandan shillings. And he doesn’t fill the gas tank. To quote Lt. Kendra, “my, my, my!!!”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">But I am in Uganda, Praise the Lord. And all the challenges of getting here pale in comparison to be with these people. I believe that if it were not for the nation of Israel, the people of East Africa would be Gods chosen people. </span></div>
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Praise the Lord, I can now update you all on the water well project. The funds have been raised and transferred to Living Water International, the company that will be doing the drilling. No longer will these precious children have to get their water from these dirty and infected water sources.<br />
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Thank you, thank you, to all of God’s <br />
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people who have faithfully and sacrificially given for this project.
I have been extremely busy trying to get everything ready for this trip to Uganda. My airline tickets have been purchased and I have my entry visa for November 29 to December 15.<br />
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There was an issue that came up with the government wanting Living Water to utilize the lake water instead of drilling and there needed to be an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed by the government with Living Water before any work could begin. I can now tell you that those issues have been resolved and the project is back on track. In fact, I spoke with Pastor Lewi (Lay-we) this morning and the drilling equipment arrived at the school today, November 20 and drilling will start tomorrow.<br />
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We were originally hopeful to have the drilling completed and pump installed by the first week in December so that water would be flowing while I was there. <br />
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Even though the drilling will start about a week late Living Water is still confident that, if good water is found on the first attempt they will have water for the children before I leave on the 14th of December.<br />
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Please continue to join us in praying that an ample amount, no, an abundant amount, of good clean water will be found in the first attempt.
We have also made plans to take the Jesus Film on this trip to show at the refugee camp and school, as well as possibly to area churches. It has been a challenge to find the necessary equipment in order to show the film in a place with no electricity. But I now have a small projector, a speaker, battery pack and cords to hopefully do the job. There are still a few technical issues to work out but I am trusting Jesus who knows more about this than I do and will work out the difficulties.<br />
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Pray that through this film many souls will be touched and they will receive the true living water of faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
In addition to the Jesus Film I am also taking toothbrushes and paste to the children at the school. It is amazing to me to see how God’s flock has stepped up to help with this project. Donations of toothbrushes, tooth paste, floss, and mouthwash have come from so many dentists and private individuals. It is truly overwhelmingly to see how God has worked out every detail. There are nearly 400 primary school children that this project is ministering to.<br />
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On this trip I am going alone so I’m limited on the amount of bags I can take, so will focus the toothbrushes and paste on the 200 youngest for this trip. I will return in January, with the complete team, and take the toothbrushes and paste for the remaining 200 children.<br />
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Even though we have the funds to drill the water well this project is a long way from being complete. There are teachers who still need to be paid their monthly salaries. Would you pray that 10 people would step forward to pledge $100 a month. (That amount of $1000 would fund the 10 teachers as they only receive a salary of $100 per month). A good education is about the only hope these children have of a better life for themselves and their families.<br />
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There are many more area’s of need encompassed in the overall project for these children; piping the water to the school and clinic, irrigation for crops, a solar pump and storage tank, funding to outfit the clinic, food to feed the children a morning meal, as well as upgrading the toilets and sanitary facilities.
So please continue to pray for these children and what God would have us and you do in His timing.<br />
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Jesus said we are not to storage up treasures houses here on earth, I know there are people out there that just need to empty some of there treasure houses and God knows who they are.<br />
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You can not take it with you but you can send it ahead.<br />
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Even a little bit can help change the lives of these precious children.<br />
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Go to www.pouredoutforthenations.com and click on donate to send your tax deductible donation.<br />
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You can donate by Egiving or PayPal online or by sending a check to:<br />
Watch Therefore Ministries Inc<br />
Poured Out For The Nations - Send It Ahead Project<br />
P.O. Box 564
Pearland, TX 77588<br />
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Whatever way you decided to give, please designate your gift to the Send It Ahead Project.<br />
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May God bless all you that have given and prayed for this project and for the children that it is helping.<br />
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Ken Merrill<br />
Servant and Project Manager<br />
Poured Out For The Nations
Send It Ahead Project<br />
A division of Watch Therefore Ministries IncAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-60732011377263647112017-12-03T15:35:00.001+02:002017-12-19T21:19:55.305+02:00Send It Ahead Project Poured Out for the Nations (PO4TN)<br />
A division of
Watch Therefore Ministries<br />
http://www.watchtherefore.tv/donate
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You cannot take it with you, but you can "SEND IT AHEAD".<br />
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African Orphan Refugee Outreach Program
Background:<br />
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The Nakivale Refugee camp located in Southern Uganda in the Isingiro District has been a long term United Nations camp for refugees from many countries in East Africa. Many Rwandans fled the genocide to Uganda over 30 years ago and some have remained in the camp since that time. The camp was designed for a maximum of 130 thousand people, the current population is around 124 thousand, with about 100 new arrivals daily.
The camp director told us there were people form 12 different countries in the camp. Many are coming from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, and Somalia.<br />
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PO4TN is partnering with Emmaus Global Outreach Ministries, lead by Pastor Muhoza Lewi (pronounced Lay-we). Pastor Lewi saw a drastic need to help the<br />
orphans and other vulnerable children living in the camp when he was there preaching the Gospel. There were many children roaming around during what should have been school hours. The children stated they had no money for school fees and no one to help them. Pastor Lewi saw the need and acted. He got permission to start a school on the camp for these orphans and sold some of his personal property in order to fund it.<br />
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The school has 364 children from P1 to P6. He has hired 10 teachers and built a 5 or 6 classroom building. These buildings are very African. They are mud brick with plastered wall, dirt floors, and a tin roof. There are window openings to allow the breeze to blow though, but no glass or coverings in the openings.
Pastor Lewi is originally from the DRC and was living in Rwanda. He has started many churches in Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, and Uganda. He has traveled all over East Africa preaching the Gospel but he also has a very big heart for the orphans.<br />
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The children are learning English in the school and are testing very high in the <br />
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National Exams. But there are a number of things stacked against them. The first is the availability of clean drinking water. The water they are now using is having to be carried from a near by lake, but many people are dying from typhoid from drinking that water without proper filtration or chemical treatment. The school has had two children die from typhoid and malaria.<br />
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Water filtration and chemical treatment are both very expensive on a large scale and it also mandates an intensive education component. Our best option is a drilled well (bore hole). The water would be clean and safe, and are praying, with enough volume to be used not only for drinking and cooking but also for cleanliness, drip irrigation for crops, making bricks, and for use in the clinic that they are building.<br />
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We are in contact with well drilling operators in the area, researching what the cost of drilling will be, as well as, a solar powered pump, piping, and a storage tank. The area has no electric power so solar would be the only feasible option as fuel costs and maintenance on an engine driven pump would be cost prohibitive.
Other needs are food, funds to pay the teachers, mosquito nets, and items to start a clinic.<br />
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The children only get one meal a day from the U.N. sources. We would like to be able to add another meal at the school for them. The teachers have been working for 1/2 salary ($50 per month). Malaria is a very large problem in the camp and the children do not have mosquito nets to sleep in under ($3.00 each). When the children are sick it is nearly impossible to get them to a hospital. That is the reason Pastor Lewi is in the process of building a clinic building but there are no funds to stock it.<br />
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Project Initiatives:<br />
Water:<br />
Problem: Children dying from drinking dirty water, typhoid.<br />
Solution: Drilling a bore hole, pump, and storage.<br />
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Food:<br />
Problem: Children are hungry, only getting one meal a day.<br />
Solution: Irrigation for crops and supplementing by purchasing bulk foods.<br />
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Teachers:<br />
Problem: Ten teachers that are working with 1/2 or no salary per month<br />
Solution: Receiving enough funding to pay full salaries, ($100 per month per teacher)<br />
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I think the question is not can you help these vulnerable children, but will you?<br />
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As was stated above:
You cannot take it with you, but you can "SEND IT AHEAD".<br />
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“They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.”
1 Timothy 6:18-19
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"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21<br />
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I believe there are God honoring people out there that need to open their store houses.<br />
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The Bible says:
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
James 1:27<br />
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Why:<br />
“Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.”
2Timothy 4:8<br />
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To what end:<br />
“His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'”
Matthew 25:21<br />
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To help with this project please go to:<br />
Watch Therefore Ministries<br />
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Click on the donate button.<br />
You will be able to designate your funds in the note area to the Nakivale Orphan Refugee Outreach Program. "SEND IT AHEAD."<br />
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Ken Merrill
Project Manager PO4TNAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-11210789279610187982011-09-14T07:22:00.002+02:002017-12-16T20:32:37.229+02:00Sobering facts about the men and women on the Vietnam Wall<b>Sobering facts about the men and women on the Vietnam Wall</b>
"Carved on these walls is the story of America , of a continuing quest to preserve both democracy and decency, and to protect a national treasure that we call the American dream."
Something to think about:
Most of the surviving parents of the dead are now deceased themselves.
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. , listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall. 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
The largest age group, 8,283 were just 19 years old 33,103 were 18 years old.
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last scheduled day in Vietnam .
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers on the Wall attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia ....wonder why so many from one school?
8 Women are on the Wall -- nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 -- 245 deaths.
The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 -- 2,415 casualties were incurred.
For many Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters.
There are no noble wars, just noble warriors...
"That we never forget"
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-28164525611855518442011-08-31T06:38:00.002+02:002011-08-31T06:39:55.163+02:00Getting Smarter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuyXJzZUM1XpXMESVIAoqLOBA5aitVTmMzYhAvKtaYU-kMH3a7mpE_JnlS038lHjk_Q9mBRw02wWfUO9gVvh0V0Y4McjH1HLabGH54jMQRL92cFyurjNc-4ri9Y03xRTwRcRhjeXsYr8/s1600/Pickles.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 77px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuyXJzZUM1XpXMESVIAoqLOBA5aitVTmMzYhAvKtaYU-kMH3a7mpE_JnlS038lHjk_Q9mBRw02wWfUO9gVvh0V0Y4McjH1HLabGH54jMQRL92cFyurjNc-4ri9Y03xRTwRcRhjeXsYr8/s200/Pickles.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646875128601857522" /></a>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-27045999379257550762011-07-30T18:49:00.005+02:002011-07-30T18:51:20.902+02:00A Bike Ride with God<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXahyOtGUCkejRi6jpnPU9CmG-UIEm5FY7WhgOd4XhjpI7onfyw8qOjmP-s-jWsCIVPOCap0BfwSjw7xJrld0dKQCozga4V-YcRWsR3sTEKNvsJmuUnNanhq6CwihRUpWBvQgnLQofBE/s1600/Rwanda+bike.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXahyOtGUCkejRi6jpnPU9CmG-UIEm5FY7WhgOd4XhjpI7onfyw8qOjmP-s-jWsCIVPOCap0BfwSjw7xJrld0dKQCozga4V-YcRWsR3sTEKNvsJmuUnNanhq6CwihRUpWBvQgnLQofBE/s200/Rwanda+bike.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635188672325165298" /></a><br /><br /><br />A Bike Ride with God - Author Unknown<br /><br />At first I saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong, so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die. He was out there, sort of like the president. I recognized His picture when I saw it, but I really didn't know him. But later on when I met Christ, it seemed as though life were rather like a bike ride, but it was a tandem bike, and I noticed that Christ was in the back helping me pedal.<br /><br />I don't know just when it was that He suggested that we change places, but life has not been the same since. When I had control, I knew the way. It was rather boring but predictable ... It was the shortest distance between two points. But when He took the lead, He knew delightful long cuts, up mountains, and through rocky places at breakneck speeds, and it was all I could do to hang on! Even though it looked like madness, He said, "Pedal." I worried and was anxious and asked, "Where are You taking me?" He laughed and didn't answer, and I started to learn to trust. I forgot my boring life and entered into the adventure. And when I say, "I'm scared," He'd lean back and touch my hand. He took me to people with gifts that I needed, gifts of healing, acceptance, and joy. They gave me gifts to take on my journey, my Lord's and mine. And we're off again. He said, "Give the gifts away, they're extra baggage, too much weight." So I did, to the people we met, and I found that in giving I received, and still our burden was light.<br /><br />I did not trust Him at first, to be in control of my life, I thought He would wreck it; But He knows bike secrets, knows how to make it bend to take sharp corners, knows how to jump to clear high rocks, knows how to fly to shorten scary passages. I'm learning to shut up and pedal in the strangest places, and I'm beginning to enjoy the view and the cool breeze on my face with my delightful constant companion, Jesus Christ. And when I'm sure I just can't do anymore, He smiles and says ... "Pedal."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-88311599051742848902010-11-01T20:05:00.001+02:002010-11-01T20:08:42.240+02:00Our updated infoHello from our new home in Vancouver, Washington.<br /><br />We have a new home phone number:<br />360 750-8800.<br /><br />Our new address is:<br />5416 NE 54th Ave<br />Vancouver, WA 98661<br /><br />Bev's cell phone:<br />404 791-3624<br /><br />Ken's cell phone:<br />404 791-3584<br /><br />We received our things from our storage unit in Maine so Bev has the house looking more like a home. Now we are waiting on our shipment from Africa with most of our dishes, kitchen pots and pans, my tools and some clothes. <br /><br />This seems to be a very nice neighborhood and have already met some of the folks living around us. Last night was Halloween we had many, many trick or treaters. I wish we had kept a count, there must have been close to a hundred. Had a large bucket of candy, that I thought we would never get rid of, so I was giving out a hand fulls to all the first little ghosts, goblins and fairy princesses. When that got down low we went to giving one piece each, then dug into the pantry for the little boxes of juice drinks, fiber bars, boxes of rasins and ended up in the fruit dish, which was not a big hit, (had a few "no thank you") and ("that was weird") as they walked away.<br /><br />It is very nice to be close to family again. Our granddaughter Audrey is, of course an absolute delight. <br /><br />We would love to see you if your ever in the Portland, OR / Vancouver, WA area. The coffee pot is always on and we'll leave the light on for ya.<br /><br />We thank you all for your prayers and support over the past 4 years. You may never know the blessing you were to us and to the children of Rwanda until you reach your reward in Heaven. May the Lord truly bless each one of you and may you joy in the knowledge of His salvation and love.<br /><br />God bless,<br />Ken & BevAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285332729803257121.post-25824284050721862322010-08-02T16:51:00.001+02:002010-08-02T16:51:45.731+02:00Zambia info<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">ZAMBIA INFO<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Seasons<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">There are two main seasons, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainy_season"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">rainy season</span></a> (November to April) corresponding to summer, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_season"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">dry season</span></a> (May to October/November), corresponding to winter. The dry season is subdivided into the cool dry season (May to August), and the hot dry season (September to October/November). The modifying influence of altitude gives the country pleasant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtropical"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">subtropical</span></a> weather rather than tropical conditions for most of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Rainy season<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainfall"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Rainfall</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> varies over a range of 500 to 1,400 mm (19.7 to 55.1 in) per year (most areas fall into the range 700 to 1,200 mm/27.6 to 47.2 in). The distinction between rainy and dry seasons is marked, with no rain at all falling in June, July and August. Much of the economic, cultural and social life of the country is dominated by the onset and end of the rainy season, and the amount of rain it brings. Failure of the rains causes famine from time to time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The rains are brought by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertropical_Convergence_Zone"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Intertropical Convergence Zone</span></a> (ITCZ) and are characterised by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">thunderstorms</span></a>, occasionally severe, with much <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">lightning</span></a> and sometimes hail. The ITCZ is located north of Zambia in the dry season. It moves southwards in the second half of the year, and northwards in the first half of the year. In some years, it moves south of Zambia, leading to a "little dry season" in the north of the country for three or four weeks in December.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The highest rainfall is in the north, especially the north-west and the north-east, decreasing towards the south; the driest areas are in the far south west and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luangwa_River"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Luangwa River</span></a> and middle <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambezi_River"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Zambezi River</span></a> valleys, parts of which are considered semi-arid. None of the country is considered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arid"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">arid</span></a> or to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">desert</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Flooding is an annual event on floodplains, to which people and wildlife are adapted. Flash floods after unusually heavy rain cause damage when they occur in places that do not experience annual floods. Erosion and the washing out of roads and bridges are common. Crops are frequently damaged by flooding and hail. Too much rain when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">maize</span></a> crop is flowering, or late in the season when it should be drying off prior to harvest can be very damaging and promotes rotting of stored grain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 17.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Dry season<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 15.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Plant and animal adaptations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 15.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous_tree"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Deciduous trees</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> which lose leaves in the dry season to conserve water predominate over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">evergreens</span></a> which have waxy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_cuticle"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">leaf cuticles</span></a> for the same purpose. The deciduous trees usually produce fresh green or reddish leaves just before the rainy season. Grasses and some other herbaceous plants dry up above ground but regenerate quickly with the onset of rains from roots and tubers, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Except for those living in areas of permanent freshwater, animals are adapted to the long dry season, as seen in migration and breeding patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 15.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Bushfires<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">In the middle to late dry season, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfire"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">bushfires</span></a> are prevalent, and smoke is noticeable by smell and as a haze. The fires are ignited by villagers hunting, burning crop residue, and preparing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_cultivation"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">chitemene</span></a> gardens; or by lightning in the early rainy season. Because such fires happen annually, there is no great build up of dry fuel in the bush, and so the fires are not usually devastating. They may kill animals, and damage crops if the rains end early and fires happen before harvest. The presence of fire-adapted plants and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoecology"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">palaeoecological</span></a> studies indicate that such fires have happened for millennia.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size: 15.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Water sources in the dry season<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Most rivers, lakes and swamps, except in the far south and south-west, are permanent. In addition, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambo"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">dambos</span></a> (grasslands which become <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">marshy</span></a> in the rainy season) are prevalent in most of the country and water is usually available in them from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(hydrosphere)"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">springs</span></a> or shallow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_well"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">wells</span></a>. Dambos also release groundwater to streams and rivers towards the end of the dry season, keeping them flowing permanently. Small earth <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">dams</span></a> are often constructed in dambos as a source of water and as fishponds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">For the human population, the location of rural settlements is determined by access to water in the dry season (though <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borehole"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">boreholes</span></a> are now commonly used to augment supplies). Traditionally, people have also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">migrated</span></a> in the drier areas where rivers dambos are not prevalent. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotseland"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Barotseland</span></a>, people move with their livestock, grazing them on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotse_Floodplain"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Barotse Floodplain</span></a> in the dry season and moving to higher ground at the margins during the rainy season.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The ability to grow enough food in the rainy season to last the long dry season is also a factor in population distribution. Traditionally some communities have divided the year into farming in the rainy season, and fishing and hunting in the dry season, when herbivores can be found more easily as they visit sources of water, and fires can be set to expose them or drive them into traps.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Temperature<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The elevation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_superswell"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">great plateau</span></a> on which Zambia is located, typically between 1,000 and 1,300 metres (3,281 and 4,265 ft), modifies temperatures, which are lower than for coastal areas at the same <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">latitude</span></a>, and pleasant for much of the year. On the plateau (covering about 80% of the country) temperature ranges, depending on location are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.0pt; margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">▪<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">June (cool dry season): 6–12 °C (42.8–53.6 °F) (mean daily minimum) to 21–26 °C (69.8–78.8 °F) (mean daily maximum)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.0pt; margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">▪<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">October (hot dry season): 17–22 °C (62.6–71.6 °F) (mean daily minimum) to 28–35 °C (82.4–95 °F) (mean daily maximum)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.0pt; margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">▪<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">February (rainy season): 14–19 °C (57.2–66.2 °F) (mean daily minimum) to 25–30 °C (77–86 °F) (mean daily maximum)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Most of the country is frost-free but in some years ground <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">frost</span></a> occurs. This is restricted to the highest exposed hills, or more widely in the lower humidity areas of the southernmost parts of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Temperatures are higher at lower elevations, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luapula_River"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Luapula</span></a>-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mweru"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Mweru</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mweru_Wantipa"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Mweru Wantipa</span></a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tanganyika"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Tanganyika</span></a> valleys in the north, and highest in the lower Luangwa and Zambezi valleys in the south, typically experiencing 40 °C (104 °F) in October, with rising humidity making for uncomfortable conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">During the rainy season months of November to April or May some days may be humid, but daily maximum temperatures are usually a little lower than in the hot dry season. The rain can be cooling, unlike in the humid tropics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 19.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Wind<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination: none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Prevailing winds in the dry season are generally moderate but occasionally more severe and may bring cool dust-laden air from distant arid regions. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Whirlwinds</span></a> are very common but not usually destructive; waterspouts can be seen over lakes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">In the rainy season, winds are localised with thunderstorms and may be destructive but usually confined to small areas, such as blowing roofs off buildings. The country does not suffer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">tornadoes</span></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">cyclones</span></a> of widespread destructive force.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Zambia"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Languages of Zambia</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">The official language of Zambia is English, which is used to conduct official business and is the medium of instruction in schools. The main local language, especially in Lusaka, is Nyanja. However, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemba_language"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Bemba</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanja"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Nyanja</span></a> are spoken in the urban areas in addition to other indigenous languages which are commonly spoken in Zambia. These are: Ambo, Aushi, Bisa, Chikunda, Cishinga, Cokwe, Gova, Ila, Inamwanga, Iwa, Kabende, Kaonde, Kosa, Kunda, Kwandi, Kwandu, Kwangwa, Lala, Lamba, Lenje, Leya, Lima, Liyuwa, Lozi, Luano, Lucazi, Lumbu, Lunda, Lundwe, Lungu, Luunda, Luvale, Makoma, Mambwe, Mashasha, Mashi, Mbowe, Mbukushu, Mbumi, Mbunda, Mbwela, Mukulu, Mulonga, Ndembu, Ng'umbo, Nkoya, Nsenga, Nyengo, Nyiha, Sala, Seba, Senga, Shanjo, Shila, Simaa, Soli, Subiya, Swaka, Tabwa, Tambo, Toka, Tonga, Totela, Tumbuka, Twa, Unga, Wandya and Yombe. Estimates of the total number of languages spoken in Zambia add up to 72,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">[20]</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> thirteen (13) dialects are counted as languages in their own right which brings this number to 85.</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419527381854731426noreply@blogger.com0