Hello and a huge welcome to everyone to the Lahash blog. For the next several months this blog will be centered on the upcoming trip to East Africa. I'm so excited about this trip - but man is there a lot to accomplish in the next month!
First I'll give you a little background on the trip and the friends traveling on it:
There are seven of us that will be visiting Uganda and Sudan for the first two weeks of November (pictured above are the 5 who live in Portland). We'll be flying out from various destinations across the U.S. - meeting in New York - and eventually making our way to Adjumani. In this rural town in Northern Uganda, we will spend about a week with the incredible kids at the Amazing Grace Orphanage. From there we will cruise up across the border into Sudan for a week at the newly constructed St. Bartholomew Orphanage of Kajo Keji. At both of these orphanages we will be sharing lessons, hanging out the kids, and listening to and recording their stories.
From there we will lose two members of the team (Karin and Eric) - they will head back to jobs in the U.S. - and the rest of us will travel to Nairobi for several days, visiting the Kibera slums. Then Erin will head back to the States, and the four of us that remain will travel to Eldoret Kenya to help with a grassroots AIDS awareness and assistance program that my friend Nick Kemboi organized in the slums there. You can visit that website over at www.ukimwi.net, and see what Nick and the team have been experiencing recently. We will be visiting local families and orphans devastated by AIDS, speaking with local politicians and church leaders, and encouraging AIDS awareness among the sex workers, school kids, and other members of the community.
After about two weeks in Kenya, we are planning on visiting Jo French at the MCC AIDS project in Dodoma Tanzania. Jo is a friend who is spearheading a local AIDS care program in central Tanzania. We will stay with her for just over a week, learning from her and encouraging and listening to those affected by the virus.
Then... a mammoth bus ride over to Rwanda. Here in Portland I've become friends with a Rwandese named Emmanuel who has started a ministry called Evangelical Revival Ministries (ERM). ERM cares for kids orphaned by the genocide, AIDS, and other events. ERM also supports a local hospital and a pastor training program. We will also visit several key Genocide sites in Rwanda to absorb and contemplate the atrocities that occurred there in 1994.
From there we will head back to Uganda for another week before we fly back to the United States.
So... a lot of travels, a lot of dear people to meet, and a lot of planning over the next month. Thanks so much for your support and for your interest. I plan to regularly update this blog, and there will be updates along the way in East Africa, so make sure you bookmark it!
First I'll give you a little background on the trip and the friends traveling on it:
There are seven of us that will be visiting Uganda and Sudan for the first two weeks of November (pictured above are the 5 who live in Portland). We'll be flying out from various destinations across the U.S. - meeting in New York - and eventually making our way to Adjumani. In this rural town in Northern Uganda, we will spend about a week with the incredible kids at the Amazing Grace Orphanage. From there we will cruise up across the border into Sudan for a week at the newly constructed St. Bartholomew Orphanage of Kajo Keji. At both of these orphanages we will be sharing lessons, hanging out the kids, and listening to and recording their stories.
From there we will lose two members of the team (Karin and Eric) - they will head back to jobs in the U.S. - and the rest of us will travel to Nairobi for several days, visiting the Kibera slums. Then Erin will head back to the States, and the four of us that remain will travel to Eldoret Kenya to help with a grassroots AIDS awareness and assistance program that my friend Nick Kemboi organized in the slums there. You can visit that website over at www.ukimwi.net, and see what Nick and the team have been experiencing recently. We will be visiting local families and orphans devastated by AIDS, speaking with local politicians and church leaders, and encouraging AIDS awareness among the sex workers, school kids, and other members of the community.
After about two weeks in Kenya, we are planning on visiting Jo French at the MCC AIDS project in Dodoma Tanzania. Jo is a friend who is spearheading a local AIDS care program in central Tanzania. We will stay with her for just over a week, learning from her and encouraging and listening to those affected by the virus.
Then... a mammoth bus ride over to Rwanda. Here in Portland I've become friends with a Rwandese named Emmanuel who has started a ministry called Evangelical Revival Ministries (ERM). ERM cares for kids orphaned by the genocide, AIDS, and other events. ERM also supports a local hospital and a pastor training program. We will also visit several key Genocide sites in Rwanda to absorb and contemplate the atrocities that occurred there in 1994.
From there we will head back to Uganda for another week before we fly back to the United States.
So... a lot of travels, a lot of dear people to meet, and a lot of planning over the next month. Thanks so much for your support and for your interest. I plan to regularly update this blog, and there will be updates along the way in East Africa, so make sure you bookmark it!
posted by Dan Holcomb - Lahash at 10:55 AM
1 Comments:
Dan!!
Wonderful blogsite!... beautifully good idea...especially the map:) It's such a great way to get even more excited about everything that's going on with Lahash!!
And welcome to the world of comments...it's a nice place to be.
*Tiff
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