Mission Photographer | Africa | The Redeemer House

This is what it’s all about. These are the Hands of Hope, linking Uganda to the US. Noah, on the left, is the “House Uncle” for the Redeemer House. He absolutely ADORED Colby, becoming friends with him right away. In Uganda, holding hands means you are very close friends. These two became friends right away.

Sunday after church, we walked back to the Redeemer house and spent the day there… This is my friend, Rebecca. She took to me right away… we had a great day together and she decided she wanted to name me a very special name…

So she did. “Fat Mom.” AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Rick and Wendi and Colby passed out soccer jerseys to the children and they played a couple games in the yard…

then I got to pass out the backpacks to all the children. They were an incredible hit!! This is Joshua. He loved his toys and school supplies, adn he VERY MUCH LOVED his backpack. He would not take it off

We continued to be able to bless the Redeemer House, and bought them some furniture and shelving for the house.

and each child got their own shelf with a personalized basket so they can store some of their own belongings, and so each of them can have a sense of identity.

This is where they sleep. This is Saida. She has Malaria right now. She had to go to the clinic with Noah to get an injection and medicine. She will be okay.

We had such an amazingly incredible day filled with love for the kids. Noah has a small flock of chickens in the back yard that are his pride and joy… and he went out back with Colby and they caught one of them! Noah presented it to Colby as a gift for his friendship (this is HUGE. Noah LOVES those chickens). He wanted Colby to take it back to the US. We had to explain that the airlines would not let us do that, but that Colby was so thankful for the thoughtful gift. He did ask if Noah could show him how they kill and prepare a chicken for dinner, so Noah chose one of his other chickens (not the best one that he was giving as a gift to Colby) and took it out back and showed us just how he kills it. I will spare the blog readers the details (and the photos) of that experience, but I will say that it was pretty fascinating, and I can now confidently say that if I had to, I would be able to prepare my own chicken.