Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Devin Tree


We have had a good day working around the house. I made some Lion House dinner rolls to share on Monday night with the elders, got the laundry done and your dad worked on the computer doing many important things. We wanted to visit with a few people but were unable due to their unavailability so we ended up taking the white boards to the church, went shopping and dropped in on the Faith Radio station to let them know that we were still working on getting the go-ahead to do the program on Sunday mornings. The material we use has to be approved and free of copy right restrictions. Simon, the station manager, is just delightful and made us feel so welcome. He made the comment that he has been praying that we would be back and would do a program. Terry said, "Your prayers have been answered." Simon is a pastor of a Pentecostal church in Mbale and was thrilled that an open house would be held at our church (when it gets spruced up) on a Saturday so he could come.

Here are some more pictures of the Mbale home, the elders doing the dishes after Christmas dinner and our trip to Sipi Falls. The children accompanied us up and back down the mountain side and then of course, wanted to be paid for the guide service. The last picture is of us planting the 'Devin Tree' at the orphanage.




Note from Jenna: The pictures are so small because my dad must be reducing the size of the file to email them to me. We'll work something out so they can be bigger.

4 comments:

Cara said...

Why is it called the Devin Tree?

GrandmaNutt said...

Love those beautiful missionaries...young and old alike.

Unknown said...

The orphanage has a tradition of having visitors plant a tree and then name it. We named this tree after our grandson, Devin, because he always likes to help people and one year he put on his birthday list that he would like an orphan!

FRYBABY said...

I love that Devin!!