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...
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Admitted
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...
A Day of Firsts
Last night, Henry and I decided that he would make the trip from Hoima to Kampala this morning so we could attempt to make further progress on getting him admitted to his dream school. While this was Henry’s second visit to Kampala (he came on a school field trip about six years ago), the...
Wholly Cow$
Today was a day I have been anticipating for nearly two months, and it went even better than I could have hoped. Henry met us at our hotel at 7:15 a.m. and rode with us to his church, which actually started with a time of worship at 7:00 a.m. When we walked in, the...
Arrested Developments in Hoima
We left Kampala on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. planning to make the four-hour journey to Hoima where we would meet up with Henry. The rest of my family has never met Henry or his family, though they have spoken to each other via Skype. We realized early on in the day that things...
An Unforgettable Day in the Court of Appeals
I arrived at 8:45 a.m. for the 9:30 a.m. announcement of the appellate decision in the Ribbens legal guardianship appeal. They had been denied legal guardianship at the trial court over sweet little 20-month-old Nya not because they were not perfectly fit parents (they are), and not because Nya is not an abandoned child...
Henry’s National Exam Results
Today was a very significant day in the life of Henry, the Uganda boy I met during my first trip to Uganda. Today, the national test results were released – Uganda’s version of the SAT. Before getting to the results, here is a quick primer on the Ugandan school system: Children start school in...
Appellate Briefs
As many of you know, I am involved to some degree in two appellate cases currently pending before the Ugandan Court of Appeals. I have previously written about Henry’s case and that of Sara and Andy Ribbens. With respect to the first case, Henry is a boy I first met during my initial visit...
The Source . . . and the Destination
On Sunday morning, we got up early enough to attend the 8:00 a.m. worship service at Watoto Church, and then headed to Jinja for the day. While Jinja is the seventh most populace city in Uganda, it is the second largest commercial area. Its attraction, however, is neither its population nor its commerce, but...
First, Not Always Better Than Last
It doesn’t take particularly good vision to see the undertaker’s gravedigger busily excavating a place for the American newspaper business in the graveyard of history next to the plots occupied by the payphone, the VCR, and the 8-track player. Modern technological advances assure that change is the only thing constant in this world. At...