Edwin's journals from Sudan

Edwin Angote is the East Africa coordinator - in charge of working with visitors when they arrive in our partner countries, working with the staff in each of the centers, and providing updates and direction from East Africa. His update is below:

"We are currently in Kampala after a long journey from Kajo-Keji southern Sudan with the lorry. From Adjumani to Kampala was the longest journey. It started at 8 o'clock in the morning and we reached Kampala at half past ten at night. We had a flat tire which took us almost two hours to repair in Gulu town. A nail had gone through it. The police were always there ready to stop us asking for the motorcycle logbook. They thought that we had stolen it.


The driver made a mistake of crossing the road block and we were charged for that. The Lorry together with the motorcycle is to be fixed before it goes back to Kajo-Keji with some of the building materials that are to be bought here. I thank the Lord so much for how far he has taken us. So far everybody is doing fine despite the fact that there was a little bit of fever and normal body pain.

Yesterday Raveesh's wallet was stolen here in Kampala at night. Somebody reached his backpack through the window and stole the wallet with all the money and the documents in it. It was so lucky that he had put his passport in a different suitcase. He had to call back home to cancel the credit cards.
The team has been so amazing for the past few weeks that we have been together there was excellent cooperation and good relationship. People loved them so much all over. During our stay in kajo keji we did a lot with the team:

• Building - we did a lot in building the boys dormitory at Kajo Keji. We were dealing with the bricks most of the time. The new team that is coming in couple of days is to continue with the remaining part of the building. The infant house is almost complete. We helped out in doing the painting and cleaning the building. The window panes are yet to be put then all will be complete.
  
  There was some money that was donated by Lahash to build a house for an old lady who has leprosy. The house was built but it had some few mistakes around which we corrected with the team. I have also sent the pictures of us working on the house with the team. We prayed with the lady and shared the gospel. She was so happy with us being with her in the house and doing what we did to her. Most people don't come close to people who have leprosy according to her they are neglected.

• School - The education level for people around here is very low. We went to one of the schools where most of the kids from the orphanage go to and it was so frustrating to see the children in class without teachers. Only becouse that the government has not paid them for the past five months or so. The teachers that we found are volunteers who are paid by the school but are not qualified.

• Prison Ministry - we went to one of prisons. We prayed together and Caleb preached. We had some food stuffs to give them. Among the congregation was a lady who was demon possessed and she asked for prayers to be delivered. It was my first time to pray for a demon possessed person which was very scary. She was delivered but since then we haven't gone back to find out how she is - but we are yet to go.

* Edwin has a bunch more photos online at his webshots archive.

* Please pray for Edwin. He's developed some chest pains, and will need some medication this next week.