in the midst of scurrying around running errands, packing, catching up with friends, and spending time with my family, i'm sitting down to write a brief update you on my summer. tomorrow morning i am headed to pennsylvania for orientation at world harvest mission's sending center, then wednesday evening, the continent hopping begins. the other intern who is going with me (olvie) and i are headed to london, where we are excited to have an 11-hour layover thursday to do some exploring, then we're off to entebbe, uganda, where we will arrive early friday morning. after spending a night in an inn/ guest house there, we will be driven early the next morning to an airstrip to hitch a flight with an opthamologist on a tiny MAF (mission aviation fellowship) plane to bundibugyo. this is the small town in the semliki valley in western uganda, where we will be spending the next 2 months doing public health related work (specifically focusing on sickle cell anemia & malaria, and working at a nutrition clinic) and helping the team there serve the community in any way we can.
i will be keeping up with this blog this summer (of course, this will be subject to the whims of the internet system in bundibugyo) and will hopefully be able to put some pictures up during my time away. i can't promise the blog format or the writing to be spectacular, but i do imagine there will be some intriguing, even crazy, stories along the way. (here is the link to amy and travis johnson's blog, also listed in the sidebar to the right: http://steadfastjoy.blogspot.
i would deeply appreciate prayer over our trip, the work to be done, and the relationships that will be built. i would also love to hear your own updates!
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