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As is the case for all developing countries, Ugandan is a cash-driven society. The lack of widespread use of credit cards creates numerous challenges for all sectors of society, including the judiciary. In the United States, the court system can purchase supplies and pay all sorts of suppliers and vendors via government credit cards...
Lots of chicks. Lots and lots of chicks. Overrunning the house. They barely sleep. All they do is eat. And they are pooping everywhere. Next week, they will be kicked out of the house and made to fend for themselves in the small barn behind the house. Last week, Henry’s family had 240 three-day-old...
Do you know that empty feeling you get when someone leaves? It might be from a friend moving away, or a child going off to summer camp, or a sibling leaving for college. Well, I have that feeling tonight. When I look around our apartment, nearly everything I see reminds me of Henry. I...
On Friday afternoon, my driver (Sherlock) and I went to pick up the letter that would supposedly say I was allowed to drive the government car I had been carried around in for the past four weeks. But when I opened the letter, the first thing I saw was my score – 68 of...
The Carrie Underwood song after which this post is named takes on added significance when living in Africa. There have already been many instances in the four short weeks we have been here where we have found ourselves seeking the sort of surrender this song implies. But the reason for the title of this...
As I indicated in my previous post, Friday was an intense and suspenseful day. Fortunately, it ended well. As I have written about previously, the Ugandan court of appeals issued a landmark decision about ten days ago that affirms the power of the Family Division of the High Court to grant legal guardianship to...
I’m so excited and scared for Tuesday. Tuesday is the day that I leave with the Gregston family to go on a 5 day medical mission trip. That’s the exciting part. The scary part is that there will be no lab technician. We’re not quite sure what our lab capabilities will be yet, but...
Today was probably the most suspenseful and intense day yet. I will need to wait until next week to publicly discuss most of what happened today, but suffice it to say that there were more tears of joy, and more evidence of God’s presence moving here in Uganda. And this was also the same...
You might be in Uganda if . . . you went to your doctor’s appointment and were registered at the reception desk by an 11-year-old. You might be in Uganda if . . . you went to the blood lab and found that the technician drawing your blood is 16-years-old, or even 12-years-old. You...
I’ve never had much sympathy for Moses. I mean, he heard the voice of God commanding him, how did he even have it in him to ask for someone else to be provided in his place? But I realized recently I’m guilty of doing exactly the same thing–I just don’t say it to the...