Celebrate CFH Uganda

You are invited to join us for a fun afternoon at Cornerstone Christian Centre bringing a taste of Uganda to Bromley!

London!!

After quite a few delays... plane wheel replacement in Uganda...being held over Biggin Hill for 40 mins... we have arrived in London!

Thank you for following and supporting us on our journey we have been blessed each day to see how many people have viewed the blog. 

We'd love to share more about the trip and how you can get involved in supporting the work of Christian Family Helpers so do keep watching this space.

Boarding!

Yay.We're finally off 

Thursday 9th April

Please continue to pray for the team as they fly home and adjust to life back in the UK.

Pray that they would be able to gather their thoughts and share effectively  their experience with those around them.

...or not!

Due to a flat tyre our plane has been delayed by 45 minutes whilst they change it.

All aboard!!

See y'all in a few hours.

Entebbe

Sat at Entebbe, have done some shopping and have drunk some coffee and we will be boarding in about 20 minutes

Packed!

After a great final service and time to say goodbye the team are now packing and in about half an hour we will be leaving to the airport 

Wednesday 8th April

Please pray for the team as they make their final preparations to return home and join with the school in a farewell service.

Night night

Tonight after dinner a small group of us went on a late night trip to Canaan.  We surprised all the younger children in the dorms with bedtime cuddly toys!  They were very very excited and probably did not go to sleep for a while after we left! Oops!

Shopping in Kampala

Today was a different kind of day because whilst the team spent their last full day in the school hanging out with friends Caroline and Chris went last minute shopping for resources for the school. After having spent 10 minutes trying to explain gauze dressings to the assistant in the pharmacy we headed to a couple of school publishing houses which were a major eye-opener in how the Ugandan education system works it appears on the surface that you can just buy exams.

At approximately 2:30 we left Eddie to go and exchange an item from the previous shopping trip and wandered over to the bookshop. We spent the first hour and a half looking for books and watching the primary school headteacher pick out books (by this point i had started getting bored of being in the same shop so read a book on animal facts - did you know a millipede is born with only 6 legs?) we decided we should start checking items through the checkout, about thirty minutes later we had paid and figured that we would soon be leaving the shop; it was not to be.

There is a system in this particular bookshop which allows the customer to ensure they are walking out with all the books they have paid for, this takes the form of receipts being counter-checked against the books in your bag, or in our case across the whole floor. (By this point I feel like i should have started reading harry potter rather than an animal book).

It turned out we still had a rather a large amount of money left but thought we really should start heading back for the presentation. What felt like a week later i decided to go and get a coke from a neighbouring shop (starting to think i should have re-read all of the harry potter series)

We were then, after another hour, ready to leave and went and waited on the side of the road for the car to pull up however it turned out that the driver had been clamped for 'wrong parking' so we sent him off with 20,000 ugandan shillings (about £5) to get the car unclamped and flagged down a bicycle and hired him to take our books to the car.

We then realised a traffic officer wasn't coming so left the car and driver, jumped in a taxi and headed down to the school for the presentation which had started two hours earlier at 3pm. When we arrived it became apparent that the team had been stalling the presentation of the resources until we arrived, as many of the resources had been bought with money raised by Caroline's school and many with money raised by Abigail and her school. So Caroline and Abigail presented the resources to the secondary school.

We then had the great privilege of presenting the primary school with their resources. A wonderful event with a lot of excited and grateful children.  

After which we were informed that the school was in debt and danger of having their water and electricity cut off - after a bit of maths it turned out that the amount of money we had left over was almost exactly the same amount that they owed - how awesome!

The day was rounded off with an amazing traditional meal with plenty of matooke, purple ice-cream and a wonderful display of traditional dancing from the ladies who work in the guest house. 

Tuesday 7th April

Please pray for the team as they spend their last day in the schools that it will be a time of blessing for the teachers, pupils and the team.

Lunch

Fish and chips - Nile style!

----UPDATE----

-Yum!

Party Bus to the Source of the Nile!

Today the team and some of the children from CFH are visiting the source of the nile.  It's great to spend time with some of those that people from Cornerstone sponsor on Jude and JJ's party bus!!!

En route we stopped off to see the tombs of the Kabakas.

On arrival at the Nile Caroline and Jess had to rescue a bat from inside the toilet so that the ladies could use it!

Monday 6th April

Please pray for the team that they have a restful day as they do some tourism and begin their preparations for returning to the UK.

Happy Easter!

Hello and happy Easter to our friends here in Uganda, at home in the UK, and in other parts of the world: Australia, France, Bermuda and Spain to name a few places this blog has been seen.

Today has been a wonderful day celebrating Easter first in the church where Trevor preached and the team were able to present a short dramatised telling of the road to Emmaus.

Followed by an afternoon in the school for the feast of the bull. 

Remember the 'before' photos? Also the chicken which was in the boot (A very good friday part 2) is in the middle of the plate and the bull to the right. 

As part of the festivities some of the students were selling their crafts, and there was a dance off which Peter won; not bad for a late entry :)

Finally, it was a great privilege to share in the birthday celebrations of one of the students that had been baptised on Friday. 

Sunday 5th April

Please pray for the team as they celebrate Easter in Uganda with a traditional celebratory Bull Feast.

Please pray for the team as they enjoy traditional Ugandan cuisine  and hospitality.  Pray for the boldness to try new things and that the new foods will not disagree with them in any way.

Basketball

Today was Muyenga high's sports day a fantastic event where the students had a whole day of playing football and basketball. 

Here is Jude and JJ's report on the sports day...

Sports day in Uganda - New Comers (UK team) vs. old comers (UG kids).

We had a fantastic time playing basketball with everyone today. A day I will never forget.

An egg-cellent afternoon

This afternoon I (Jess) was able to spend time helping the Kampala Evangelical Free Church sunday school with their Easter preparations.  We painted eggs, sang songs and made easter cards.  I also presented the children with a banner from our own sunday school, Foundationstones.

The children from Uganda were very excited to see the children from England especially Benjamin and Angus who are related to members of the Uganda Team.

We will be giving out the t-shirts that Foundationstones designed tomorrow.

Tomorrow's lunch

Today a number of us went to see tomorrow's lunch being slaughtered. Be aware cow photos follow.