Thursday 17th November
We have tried to break up the week by doing something out of
Kagando on Wednesdays. Yesterday was no exception. We went to Bwera again to a
school for a repeat performance of Daniel and the Lions. The children at the
school we went to (a different one to the ne we have previously visited)
thoroughly enjoyed the story with again some very enthusiastic lions!
The school at Bwera
Enthusiastically doing action songs!
King Darius, Daniel and some Askaris (soldiers)
Practicing our roaring to embarrass our children and amuse our grandchildren!
Make a circle to pray for the school
On the
way back we picked up a girl aged nearly 3 years who was unwell and had been
having convulsions. She was being treated in one of the many unlicensed drug
shops which are prepared to provide treatments for people with even quite
serious conditions. We took her to Kagando and hopefully she should do well.
I’m not sure if you believe in miracles but my belief in
these has taken a step forward in the last few days. A 12 year old girl was
admitted on Wednesday 9th November with Sickle Cell Disease and
remained unconscious for 5 days. Her lumbar puncture was normal ruling out
meningitis and her tests for Malaria were negative and it seems most likely
that she has had a vaso occlusive episode-a type of stroke occurring in sickle
cell sufferers. Ann and I prayed for her on Monday which left us both in tears
and seeing little hope of her pulling through.
Many other people were praying for her as well. Yesterday afternoon to
my amazement she was awake and looking around although still unable to speak.
It was a truly miraculous recovery and although she still has a long way to go,
the unshakable faith of her parents that she would recover seems to have been
well founded.
Our puppet shows on children’s ward still seem to be going
down well. Either side of the shows there is much singing and toys are
available for the children. Included is a very realistic baby which had three
of the mothers looking carefully and poking it to see if it was real!
The children with the real baby!
We have some occasional visitors who come to pinch the
berries from a mulberry bush which is growing behind the house. We managed to
get the smallest one to say “I am a parrot”!
Our small visitors
These are highly appreciable efforts on your part to keep the people of such places happy and make them smile. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI liked the spirit of the kids and their commitment to their classes of art. Like we can see they are not sitting in a room. Wish them a luck.
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