HOW TO KEEP YOUR FISH FRESH
Since no one in Uganda has ice, keeping fish fresh can pose a problem. Ugandans have the solution - they tie their fish to the front of their vehicles. We bought these fish on our way back from visiting another school. The fishermen catch the fish in Lake Victoria and hike over to the main road and wave the fish at you as you go by. Maria, the owner of our guesthouse, wanted fish for dinner, so we pulled over! I've never had soooo many fish thrusted into my face. we finally decided on the two you see in the picture and of course, I needed to pose with our fish. I have no idea how many bugs were stuck on the fish, since we still had another 3 hours of driving. I didn't want to look, once we arrived! These fish and most fish catch in Lake Victoria is Tilapia. I've been told that it was the Tilapia fish that Jesus mutlitplied at the feeding of the 5,000.

This is the last picture I took of the kids before we flew back to the States. They are wearing their "sport" shirts (P.E. shirts) leftovers of last year's Summer Day Camp at CrossRoad. All the extra shirts were put to good use in Uganda. Wednesday is chapel and sports day and the children wear shorts and their new "sport" shirts, which they love.

Field Trip to the Nile River

We packed everyone into a bus, 43 of us in total, and took the children to the source of the Nile River. There are mighty rapids at the place where we visited. One little boy said the "boat" in the river was a "car". Many of the children had never seen a river and have never never been more than a few miles away from their home. They loved the bus ride, singing almost the entire 1 1/2 hour bus ride to the river. They got to see the Soceer stadium and the Coca Cola plant, which excited them. Teacher Zion had the children sit under a tree, facing the Nile River as she told them the story of baby Moses being place in a basket in the Nile. It made the story come alive!

New Creation Centre
27 Students
2 Full Time Teachers
1 Full Time Administrator/Tutor
1 Tutor
1 Teacher Assistant
1 Full Time Cook
2 Part Time Custodians

As you can see - the staff is increasing by leaps and bounds. It was wonderful seeing and getting to know all the children. They are so sweet and so talent - boy can these kids sing and dance!!!!

OUR GOATS TURN INTO PIGS
Upon arriving at the Jjokoerla AIDS and Orphans Village, it was decided among the council of the village that they would like to purchase three month old pigs on this trip instead of the planned goats. With the money donated, we were able to have a six-room brick home (and no bad wolf will blow this pig’s brick house down!) with cement floor built to house the newly purchased 10 female exotic pigs and 1 male pig. Our little female pigs will be mothers at 10 months. From then on, they will able to birth 7-15 pigs twice a year! Wow! That an average of 100 pigs in less than one year. Keeping only the female pigs, each male pigs will bring a whopping $52 dollars at the market. One male pig sold is almost twice the amount of the average monthly income in Uganda. With the profit of these males pigs, the village will build a full size pig house, able to accommodate over 100 pigs, thus increasing their business and profit.

Mosquito Nets Galore
Our goal for purchasing mosquito nets was 150—we exceed that number by 50 for a grand total of 200 nets! Thank you to all who contributed to this very worthy cause. We were able to bless every member of the family of those children in New Creation Centre, along with each person working at our wonderful guest house, 45 nets to Jjokolera AIDS and Orphans village, 45 nets to a new orphanage, 30 nets to a local school where orphans are housed and various others we came in contact with that didn’t have the ever important nets to help guard against malaria. giving. It was such a joy to see faces light up as the much needed nets were given.