What A Trip!
Greetings,
I pray you’re reading this in good health.
David Stallings (MtM’s VP) and I just returned from Kampala. We spent five days with Tony, Faith, and the kids. It would be easier to describe the taste of a grape soda or a peach than express what a joy those kids were. Polite, softspoken, respectful to all, hopeful, and happy. Bro Stallings has a new girlfriend. She’s 5, her name is Glory, and she loves her Uncle David.
We took the whole crew to the Entebbe Zoo to see all the animals, birds, and snakes (big, bad snakes too) that are common to their immediate environment—elephants, lions, giraffes, leopards, rhinos, chimps, and crocodiles. Neither the adults nor kids had ever been, nor had they seen any of the animals before in the wild. The latter of the above list, the croc, is why people don’t swim in Lake Victoria, or any body of water for that matter. Most people will not even walk along the water’s edge.
You may think we have snakes here in the US, but I’m telling you we don’t. Look up King Cobra and Rock Python.
We have 31 children now, having taken in two more off the street. Alia, 10 years of age, lost her father and mother to AIDS. She was born HIV positive and requires meds. The boy is 9 years old and took to sleeping outside the gate to the current house (every house is gated). Tony heard about his habit, approached, and asked if he was hungry. His name is Francis, and he’s no longer homeless or hungry.
The new house is very close to completion. We walked the property. They have sweet potatoes, casava, bananas, and corn planted. One of the neighbors, Roger, a vet by training, watches the crops.
The (water) well diggers, not drillers, will begin this week. I’m awed. They’re going to dig to water. The neighbor’s well is at 87 feet.
Pray for them! All of them. Kids and all associated with them. Pray for us.
Brick by brick.
God bless you all. Thank you.
David Arp,
Director MtM
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