One roof ...
two roofs ...
and now we are working on the walls!
From the land we take a trip to Lighthouse Primary School where we are adding on two more classrooms. We want to be able to conduct classes for P1 - P7 classes (Grades one to seven) Preschool and kindergarten students are educated at another location.
These are the bathrooms ...
Here is the inside of the classrooms that are being built.
Here are the children and staff in Awe Camp Meeting Hall.
Meet Sunday preaching to the crowds.
The choir in their new costumes are singing and preaching. Two years ago they were digging for food together, but this day the children were imparting hope.
The trip started with adventure. Upon arriving in Gulu, the hotel did not have their reservation and were full. The staff scrambled to find some place to stay and were pleasantly and quickly accommodated! The second day of the trip, the children visited the IDP camp and reconnected with family and friends. The missions team joined them soon after and UJV students actively participated in the crusade. Below are some of their stories.
We took 12 of the UJV children and 5 UJV staff to Gulu for a crusade and a visit to their families after 2 years. Here are some of the testimonies of their trip.
➢ Sunday visited his uncle who is dying of AIDS. He shared his testimony with his uncle and he surrendered his life to Jesus. He also prayed for his healing.
➢ Sunday was preaching to the children in his old camp and many accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
➢ Concy has been continually praying for the salvation of her relatives while she has been living at the UJV. When she reached the camp and visited with them she discovered that they all had become saved.
➢ Alice (15 year old UJV girl), when she was reunited with her best friend (13 year old girl) in the camp, Alice was sad to discover that her friend was pregnant and not married. Alice felt bad for her friend.
➢ When returning from the camp, Alice made a comment in the van that her heart’s desire is to come back to Gulu to start the same work that Mama Suzanne started with them.
➢ Janet’s (15 year old UJV girl) best friend got married while she was away.
➢ The children were sharing the gospel in the camps in one of the homes. One of the families said that “these UJV children are the next generation to give them hope in their bad situations.” Sunday replied just to trust in God.
➢ 2 years ago these children were desolated and without any hope. Here they were standing on the stage of the crusade in front of thousands of their own tribe. At first the crowd didn’t know they were from their tribe, but when Sunday shared his testimony, the crowd broke out in excitement, realizing he is one of them. Even a greater testimony is that we never recited with them what to say. Sunday stood there and shared out of his heart, with the prodding of the Holy Spirit, the revelation of who God is for him personally. I didn’t know how he did this, but he would preach 2 minutes in Acholi (his own dialect) and then 2 minutes in English throughout his entire speech. They gave hope to Gulu through their testimonies.
