Friday January 25^th

Overnight Charles was joined by Cedric and Christopher so quite a party really!!

We have spent the day in Kasese today in the company of John who is working for the diocese with converts from Islam and is a great friend of the Lyths who have recently left Kagando. We visited St Pauls Health Centre which is a facility that has grown over the last 4 years to 87 beds (about 2/3 the size of Kapsowar where we worked in Kenya. It seems pretty busy with a very active maternity unit with 1200 deliveries including around 400-500 caesarean sections each year and all run by a single doctor from Congo.  Abraham is a graduate of Goma university and has worked alone at St Pauls for 3 years on 24 hours a day 7 days a week! I have to say I came away with huge admiration for all he was doing.

Isaiah(adminstrator at St Pauls) and Dr Abraham from Congo

The afternoon was spent with John with 2 different groups of Muslim converts. They have a service every lunchtime during the week as many of them will have been used to the pattern of 5 prayer times daily while they were active Muslims. The diocese has been very active in providing training and skills for them so they can be self-sufficient as many of them will have been forced to leave their family homes.  This evening we had a meal at John’s home where his wife Sadress prepared an amazing meal for us.

                                                                      John and Sadress