Thank You for your prayers & support

One last goodbye to London from our princess!

Leon, Bekah & I want to thank you all for your prayers and support. We feel privileged to serve the Lord in Uganda. The children were so thrilled to be able to check out their first library books. The team gave each of the LCH children their own Bibles. The children were so excited to be able to read the Bible stories for themselves. Leon had several productive sessions with the leadership at CBIT discussing their vision & development for the school. I felt useful with my nursing skills in taking care of some of the staff and children in Dyana's absence. After two days of sightseeing in London & Oxford we returned safe and jet-lagged. Bekah celebrates her 17th birthday on Sunday the 19th. WOW! "Over & Out!"

Our last full day in London

This will have to be brief because it is very late and we have early breakfast before pick up to Heathrow. I will try to embellish at airport if I can.

Today we had full English breakfast at the hotel then walked to the bus station to take the London-Oxford Tube. It was 1 3/4 hr ride--through gorgeous country NW of London. It was a sunny blue sky with puffy cloud day! PTL

When we got to Oxford we took another Hop on-Hop off tour bus. When we got to Christ church we hopped off and walked around the cathedral, and the grounds. Lovely gardens and wonderful aromas. My Mother's love for English gardens came to surface and I started telling Bekah more than she wanted to know about the plants and tree's. I never knew that maiden hair ferns bloomed. She was commissioned to take some photos for me. The lavender aroma was wonderful! When the doors were opened at 2 PM we were of the first to enter so we went to the Dining Hall first to see where the Harry Potter film was shot. Then the cathedral was spell binding. The stained glass windows are magnificent. I wish we could have come early to the service and heard the boys & male choir sing! Afterward we took the rest of the tour, ate delicious lupper at the Giraffe Cafe and returned via tube to London. Bekah and I went on a photo shoot while Leon got our boarding passes printed for BA00197(?). I had her go inside a phone booth--which she said reeked of urine (LOL) and display the narrow halls in the hotel & the door of our executive suite--Henry VII.

We then took Leon along as we walked across St James Park to the Horse Guard quarters and took photo of Bekah with a very good looking young guard.

We trekked back via Trafalgar Square, past the palace and mews to our hotel. We figured we walked 3 miles. :) Leon didn't think I could do that without stopping to rest on a park bench.

We had a nice dessert and coffee in the lounge and called Houston and talked to Bekah's parents and our son Jon. Good night all. Pat

Sight seeing with Bekah in London

Seeing London thru Bekah's eyes was fun. After a full breakfast at our Rubens Hotel at the Palace, we went and purchased tour tickets on the Big Bus Red Tour. It is a 24 hr pass to just ride the bus around town and get off and on at your desire. We walked to the Apollo theatre to buy our tickets for Wicked before getting on the tour. We first walked to Buckingham Palace, across the street from our hotel to watch the changing of the guards. Then we walked across the green to the first bus stop. We had good seats on the open top level of the red double-decker bus. Our tour guide was wonderful-quite witty-- and very informative. We rode past Hyde Park, the Marble Arch, Baker street (Sherlock Holmes museum), Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, big Ben, Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, & aquarium, and Royal National theatre. (There was a diversion because of a Jesus Festival on the Tower Bridge on Saturday. They slightly changed their routes to avoid the pedestrian crowds.) We saw St Paul's Cathedral from a few blocks away and jumped off at the Tower of London. Bekah was having some PMS and cramping so we slowed our pace hoping for the ibuprofen to kick in. The tour leader was the Warden who had a great presentation but meant standing in groups for short spurts of information. Bekah seemed to be fading--so I stopped into the royal jewels souvenir shop to inquire what we could skip. The lady said that the Crown jewels were only displayed at that location--she would lead us in a side entrance ahead of the long queue so Bekah could at least see the 'best' of the show. God is good, she didn't need to offer to do that for us.

We left without exploring the tower or the dungeon, and the large dining room for the knights. Instead we hopped on the Thames River Cruise and floated down to the Westminister Pier. That gave us many photo opportunities.

Have I said it was cool and misty most of the tour--even donned rain poncho and umbrella for short spurts of rain. We returned to our hotel about 4 PM and prepared for supper. We ate at a small Italian Restaurant a block from the hotel. Having refueled, we were able to return to the hotel to dress for the theatre. We had good seats and the music was great! Bekah said it was almost as good as the Broadway show in NYC. Leon had a hard time keeping up with the story line of Wicked since he had not watched the Wizard of Oz with the grand kids as often as I had. The lead singers had great voices with very broad vocal range. The costumes and staging were the same as the Broadway production. We were all exhausted by the time we walked back to the hotel. Leon wants to sleep in and take things at a slower pace today!

CBIT Report

I haven't been adding much to the blog but I have had a number of meetings with Morris, Edward Mukiibi, Boaz and various instructors. I will compile a summary with action points soon after I get home. I will distribute that to those wanting to be involved in CBIT. I will also set a meeting date and time that fits the schedules of those on the start-up board of CBIT-USA. I hope that we will be able to do that within the next two weeks. Thanks for your prayers as we have seen God leading and providing throughout this trip.

Leon

Visit with Foibe Rugamayo

Before we left Uganda, on Thursday we had Jimmy drive the three of us directly to visit my dear friend Foibe. (For those of you who don't already know she was my roommate at Wheaton in 1962. She adopted my Mom as her American Mom and spent several summer vacations in Pennsylvania during her 4 yrs in the states.) Her husband Edward was entertaining President Museveni in Fort Portal so we could not see him.



Our driver took us to their Kampala Home where her son Albert & wife Edna and 4 children also live. Foibe was quite a picture standing in the open doorway of her home when we arrived in her African dress. After some tea & cake, we left so Rebekah could shop before the stores closed and returned to find Mbabazi and her two children waiting for us. They loved the Bibles I had brought for them.



Mbabazi's brother,Edward and Grandson Ira were taken by Rebekah's visit and stayed to talk to her. It seemed to be none stop!
Rebekah was the guest of honor at dinner--Foibe served her first from every dish. There was roasted chicken, Chicken stew, Beef stew, Irish potatoes, rice, steamed bananas, sliced tomatoes and avocado, green beans with tiny dried mushrooms, pinto like beans, mango, watermelon, & freshly prepared passion fruit juice. Probably some more African dishes I cannot remember all--some bread-like millet dish, and flat bread. I told her it was like Thanksgiving and she smiled and said, "Of course!"

She was delighted see my slide show of the photos taken at Lulwanda and villages. She was very happy to know about the wonderful library that we dedicated on Wednesday. She was with us when we saw the initial construction in April 2004. I noticed that she sort of nodded off occasionally during the presentation. Her health seems stable but her focus is erratic. I watch the way her children seemed to cover for her and sometimes nod their head when they didn't agree with what she was telling me. She does not get to come to Kampala often these days because it seems too stressful for her. The stroke she had several years ago has it's lingering effects. Leon talked in depth with Edward Jr. who having just completed college and active in real estate seemed very happy to finally get to know us.

We arrived safely in London this afternoon!

We are enjoying our beautiful hotel suite at The Rubens at the Palace. What a joy to have comfortable bed and bathroom with hot water and magnifying mirror by the sink! There is even the luxury of an iron & ironing board & blow dryer! Two TVs-one on Bekah's side of the suite and one on ours! We've been too busy to turn either on however. We walked down to the Apollo Theatre to check on Wicked Tickets for Saturday evening. They said if we come back on the day of the show we can get Senior discount which is about 50% of the regular price-of course we said we would. Then we plan to take the Bus Tour of London--one fare is good for 24 hrs and includes the boat ride on the Thames. We can get off and on whenever we see a place we want to explore.

We had supper in the cafe and we sat right at the front window which over looks the Royal Mews. It was like being on a movie set--people watching and enjoying the delicious sandwiches. If we could afford the exchange rate we might extend our stay! Bekah is having a blast! She is trying to talk like the British.

Celebration at Lulwanda Today!

Wednesday was our last day at LCH. The time has gone too fast even though the whole team is exhausted--we were running on adrenaline and are crashing tonight! Morris rode along with the van and Leon went back to CBIT with him on the way out to LCH. Edward was going to take us to a village but said that Aidah was on her way so she would lead us on the village tour.

At breakfast at the hotel I consulted with 4 teachers from UT Arlington TX who are here teaching a community health seminar in a nearby town. The leader of the group looked at my photos of Baby John and totally agreed with Julie's assessment. The baby needed to go to a level 3 or 4 clinic and be sedated to have the wound debrided. The mother should be taught how to do range of motion exercises on his hand. She suggested honey as a good healing agent with bandage to cover the area completely. She said that if they couldn't get to a clinic I could bring the materials back from LCH and get Panadol with codeine from a pharmacy in town. We would work together to debride the wound and get it done right. I told Edward what Julie and the four nurses said and how urgent the window of time was for this intervention. He said he would phone Pastor Sunday today and see what has been done since Monday. When Aidah came she told me that the Baby had been in a hospital (not the one she likes) for a week after the accident. They discharged him in that condition--that they don't know how to treat burns here in Uganda. She was also going to call the Pastor's house and tell them to go to see Dr. Patrick as soon as possible. Sunday is 1going to be the pastor of the new church plant in Kenya and they are leaving Uganda on Sunday. I am leaving this in God's hands.

The tour into the village where Pastor Abraham leads the church that Midland Bible planted. Words cannot describe it--I will have to just download my photos to my facebook when I get home. The people live in the small mud huts with thatched roof. They have a small round covered hut for their grains and a latrine of sorts nearby. The radiance on their faces to greet us and praise the Lord is so humbling. There were all sorts of roosters, pigs, cows, goats, dogs with free range. Sort of makes me chuckle to think that they all have range-free organic eggs and food. We saw sweet potato vines, rows of corn stalks, g.nuts, kale, sorghum, etc. They truly live off the land. They may have mud floors but they sweep it and the area outside their huts with a homemade broom every day.

The one hut we went inside had a small table and one small stool. It had a curtained off door inside to the bedroom--one bed with mosquito netting. The family consisted of couple and three children. Need I say more. Be grateful!

The ceremony to open the library was great. Edward had some officials there..the government school inspector, the 'mayor' of the town, and the woman who selects the orphans for LCH. The children sang and danced. Pastor Morris spoke and each of the officials. Mike and Mary cut the ribbon to open the library officially and then were asked to cut the cakes made for the refreshments. They also served goat, irish potatoes, and some empanada like pastry with vegetables inside, and their flat bread.

I was hard to say goodbye. We felt so welcomed and loved by all. Some of the girls asked me to please greet Nana Dyana when I go home. They miss her very much. Tomorrow we leave the team to travel to Kampala to see Mbabazi's family and Foibe. I can hardly wait. Mbabazi is so excited to see us all.

I got to help teach 8 year olds how to use the computer keyboard correctly. For being their first lesson, the did quite well. I also got a tour of the ten acre farm that Children's Home bought to grow corn, sweet potatoes and other crops for food for the children.







The library was finished and furnished this morning and looks great! The team then proceeded to teach the teachers and the children how to use the library. It was a very exciting time for both. Most of us would yawn over the opening of a library but here it is very much appreciated.



I'm still meeting with the leaders of CBIT to design a few room addition to the present facility. I'm also gathering information about the instructors and the school to be used in brochures and other media.---Leon



Today for the first time, I was able to get into the clinic and see where things are. I was able to take Christine's fasting blood sugar, BP & wt. She is doing well. Carolyn's BP was high and she had a headache. She had not been taking her Rx for hypertension because she ran out. She promised to go to pharmacy and get it refilled this afternoon. The rest of the problems were routine runny noses, blister on foot, etc. I was able to talk to Julie again today and after assessing Baby Jon's picture she wants us to get him to a hospital where they can debride the wound and dress it and put a splint on the forearm so he will not have permanent contracture. I will have to talk to Pastor Morris. Our window of time is 14 days from date of incidence.



I finally got to see the completed library, wow! It looks like the real McCoy! I was so moved by the reality of it all. Then what a thrill to also take books to Covenant Primary School and put books in all of the classrooms there. They teacher Sylvia (our translator on Sunday) is the headmistress.

I had several patients at the school this afternoon also. I guess after the open air procedure on baby Jon I have a following in Mbale. It was okay because I had just the right medicine and equipment in my travel medical bag. At least I feel useful as a member of the team! It feels good to be one of God's hands to minister to these wonderful people. Pat

It broke my heart to treat little John

This day was different for Bekah & myself because we tagged along to CBIT with Leon & Pastor Josh. At first I felt a bit like a fifth wheel--sitting in the back of the classroom. Boaz came and told us that it was fine for us to start taking pictures so Bekah went to work. We then sat out on the porch outside the classroom. Every pastor who arrived late (I wonder how many miles they had to walk or ride a bike taxi to get to class) stopped first and greeted me and then Bekah with formal handshake and bowing of head in respect (Am I that old? :))
Seemed like they were stuffing themselves into the small classroom. Wow, we could hear Josh teaching and questions coming from the class. What a gifted teacher! Bekah & I would have been content to just sit and listen the entire morning but we had an assignment. Bekah started 'shooting' pics of every niche and doorway on the small property. I walked as her sidekick--but I had my binoculers and was doing some birding incognito. I saw a flock of Storks circling over head like vultures. The magpies are about the same size as ravens. Then there were yellow chested thrush-like birds, purple martins, flycatchers, red cheeked Cordon-bleu, Pied Wagtails, finches, and even some egrets struting their crests in an african dance of sorts. (Not a boring morning at all :)) If Bekah wasn't using my camera I would have zoomed in on some for y'all. When the children had their break they spied the camera and binoculars. What a hoot. I had so many little fingers pulling on the strap because they wanted to see too, I nearly got lost in the crush! I used Sue Mooney's (Bridge Point Bible) tactic of everyone sit down! (in the red dirt) now let me see who is sitting quietly . Most of the children had three or four turns. They were so amazed at the view but few could pronouce 'binoculars'. The camera was the same thing for Bekah--if they had their way they would have took the camera and pushed every button. We had some teaching to do there also. When we finally got them secured inside the office, Bekah started teaching the children the Macarena dance. They loved it! Josh on break tried to catch a photo of the routine but they all turned around to smile for the camera and ruined the moment!

Pastor Sunday called his wife Rose to come with John to see me. Julie had given me very good idea of how to handle this serious burn case. The baby's hand was worse than I imagined. I requested that the Mother held the baby with her arm over his chest and the Daddy held the arm for me so I could dress the wound. Bekah took a few pictures then became by surgical assistant after I had pulled out the necessary 4x4's, antibiotic ointment, kerlex , tape. I put on surgical gloves and went to work, crying on the inside for this precious baby, praying that God would somehow renew this precious little hand. Julie's idea to put a knee high hose over the bandage worked like a charm. I gave the mother the article about the new way to handle these wounds to give to her Dr. (Julie had just happened to pick that up at a wound seminar in St. Louis before we left.) Bekah was a trooper--she definitely has decided that she will not be a medical technical photographer or a surgical assistant! I am just glad she didn't pass out on me because now one else seemed to understand my instructions with my yankee english.

Josh Stowe taught approximately 35 CBIT students from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM with a break for a group picture taking by Bekah. Pat and Beka took many pictures of the campus and facilities. I met with the CBIT dean, Boaz Mung'ao and the five CBIT instructors. We talked about the priorities of the needs and expansion of CBIT. I am impressed by the godliness and humility of these men. They work in such terrible facilities, do such a great job, all with such a great attitude, and no complaints. Pat treated a six month old son of one of the pastors who had a large burn on his arm. She will tell about this and may even include a gruesome picture. A van took Josh, Bekah, Pat and myself back to the hotel for lunch. Josh returned for two more hours of teaching. Pat and Bekah worked in our hotel room on craft projects for the Lulwanda kids and I entered my information from this morning into the computer.

Leon

Sunday in Mbale

I wanted y'all to see Nellie & Harriet's picture with us. Harriet has been feeling better and able to help our team at various times. Nellie was playing with the children and coming in and out to see what we were doing.

We had a very good day today. We worshipped at Mbale Presbyterian Church this morning with all the team. What a joy to be greeted by all of the women and children. Pat & I taught the ladies Bible Class. What a joy! They were so responsive and asked many questions. I could see Bekah & Kathy teaching a covey of children under one tree and others over by Covenant Childrens School.

When the young peoples choir was singing their praise songs, I nudged Bekah and said she should be learning their choreography. She said "Oh Nana, that is just the hula!" I then watched and it was a slow hula to the praise music. The children from karamojong tribe that live in Namatala were just great! The I choose You ministry is really making an impact.

This afternoon the men made really great progress on finishing up the shelving and we finished boxing books for Covenant Primary School. Leon, Bekah & I plan to go along to CBIT and take pictures and take some books to CCS.

Fixed Comments I hope

Mike wrote that he couldn't write comment on our blog. I think I solved the problem. Someone give it a whirl so I will know if it works. You don't need to have an account to comment now.

Shopping Day!

Saturday is market day for many people but today we had the LCH girls "shop" in our dress shop. Little Dresses for Africa sent pillowcase dresses for us to give to the children here at LCH and villages. Some had lace edges and appliques. Very cute and the girls loved them. Jill Miller's T-Shirt dresses were a smash and the first to be chosen. The staff also got to choose a dress for their own little girls.

Bekah has enjoyed getting to play with the children. Today she sat and watched the children playing and two little ones attached themselves to her for the rest of the afternoon. Gift asked her to spend the night at the home! She carried Flavia up to see me because of a torn toenail. After I put a happy face on her bandaid she seemed very pleased.



The rest of the lumber arrived and they are working on the shelving today. Josh was getting some of the staff to help sand the lumber. He has been teaching Mike how to use the power saw and mitre box. T hey worked in heat and sun and really came back exhausted. The women have all of the reference materials ready to be shelved when space is ready.

Mark was working on the computers with a computer tech from Mbale. Seems that when they had to reformat the hard disks and in the process had not re-installed the drivers for sound and graphics. After Mark had installed Reader Rabbit 1 that I had brought some of the boys were playing the game and having more fun!

Peace came up to visit Grand dad and myself with two of her friends. After she saw her pictures on our computer she warmed up and started to talk a blue streak! She even sang for Leon her Do Re Me peice for competition.



On Monday we are having the good neighbor girls come for a dress and then we will disburse the rest to their siblings.

CBIT meetings

Yesterday I met with Morris Ogenga, the CBIT chairman and Vincent Ojanjo, the CBIT Administrator. The school is doing well with 63 students and 3 teachers and they ended the school year breaking even with the budget. They feel that they must move to a new campus but that will take at least a year. They want to add another classroom and a library/administrative space/computer room to the existing building. They have a rented five bedroom house in which all 64 students live in closely spaced bunkbeds. In spite of all of this, they have more applicants than they have space plus they have expectant attitudes about the future of CBIT.

Today I met with Morris, Vincent and Boaz Mung'ao, the CBIT dean. I spent about two hours with Boaz alone. He is even more expectant than Morris and Vincent and is taking steps for affiliation with an African University in order to move to a degree program in addition to the current diploma program.

They have this visional attitude in spite of their terrible facilities. They have three classrooms with temporary walls of bambo to form a couple of tiny offices and a tiny conference room. They have computers and copiers that for the most part don't work as they are very old and broken. We sent them more than 15 boxes of theological books which they no place to store or display. They are so crowded that they sometimes meet outside under a big tree.

I have much more to tell you and will have many pictures when we get home. Meanwhile, my copy of Outlook is out of service so I can neither send nor receive Email until I get home.

Would one of you send a message to John Couch that we will need the 501(3)c ASAP in order to forward funds to CBIT. His address is john.couch@bgllp.com. After you do that, send me a comment on this blog so I know that someone did it. Send us any other comments which we do appreciate and look forward to.

Leon

Wild Ride to Lulwanda Today!

This morning the van ride was adventurous. The bridge we have to cross was now excavated to a very narrow lane. We could look out the window and see 30ft down where they were placing the rocks around new culvert pipes in the mud by hand. I counted 416 2 wheeled bicycles or motor bikes on my side of the road to the gate of LCH. The majority of people are walking or riding a bike. Some are called boda bodas because they are taking paying customers.

We started out as a team working on books again. Putting some labels on the cards and pockets of books not cataloged. The men had one wall of book shelving completed and we stocked all of the Easy Readers. When the kids saw what was happening they got so excited! Some were coming in to look and even reading a book standing right along the shelves! Later on some of the older kids got to help. Mark taught the boys how to measure the boards and mark where the screws needed to be drilled in. Others helped carry the boxes from the prep room to the library.

After lunch, we stayed and worshiped with the children. The Praise leader today was Faith Grace and she had such a clear voice. Hearing them sing Because He Lives I can face tomorrow was such an impact on our team! Not many dry eyes. Josh did a great devotional and had the children completely captivated talking about building your life on the Rock, Jesus Christ.

We heard and videoed the kids playing the new native instruments and singing by the chromatic scales. They are getting ready for a music competitions. The teacher is amazing. He really makes them work, using correct posture and pronunciation of their vowels, adding synchronized choreography.

I got inside the medical clinic for the first time just before we left for the day. I needed to find some respiratory medicine for Faith who was having problems with her asthma due to all of the dust of the carpentry in front of the classrooms. I also saw one other little girl with a rash on face and chest--I know what it wasn't--measles, chicken pox, roseola but not sure what kind of viral rash it is. Since she had no fever or pharyngitis, I gave her benadryl for the itch and prayed for wisdom.

Leon had a good morning at CBIT with Morris and Boaz. He will write his own blog.

Bekah really had a good day--helping with the books and playing with the kids on their playground break. Stephanie and Audrey are great friends for her to share her off time with.

Natalie was really excited about the jewelry craft Jo sent along. She has all sorts of ideas how to use it for LCH.

Tomorrow we are sorting out pillowcase dresses made by Texans and we will take some to the Good Neighbor children at Bubelo Church (sp?). That I look forward to. When we see the village children along the roadside we are drawn to reaching out to them also.

It's God's work in progress!

I know that it is late but Bekah just finished posting her blog. We had technical difficulties getting online to post when we were at a place to do so. Leon was able to post at LCH while the rest of us were working!

It was a challenging day for us. First of all seeing LCH become the reality from the slab we saw in April 2004 to the beautiful home it is today. What a joy to be able greet those we have known via the teams who have gone before and Natalies blogs. Edward gave us a tour and when we got to Peace Adori and Andrew Desi's classroom I couldn't resist the hugs!

the Girls on the team all worked hours unboxing and sorting the children's readers into alphabetical alignment to stack on the shelves when they are completed. The men struggled with their power tools and the current differences and the hard mahogany lumber that is from local source. Also the floor is not exactly level so they kept trying to get the shelves level as they custom built each section. They are going to have a generator to use tomorrow and have some experience under their belt. One time I looked in and saw four heads together and 8 hands trying to get a screw into one board. "How many aggies does it take to put in one screw?" We prayed over those guys back in our workroom and they did not lose endurance. Thanks for all of your prayers.

The cool weather and rain is a welcome relief to us Houstonians. Everything is so green! Thank you God, You are Good!

Tomorrow I will be checking out the clinic. Christine needed a BP check and I had my own to use but need to look for her chart. PTL Faith looks good and was not having trouble with her asthma but one hug and I felt the wheezing. I want to get a good listen tomorrow. Harriet (Edward wife) is running fever, went back on malaria medicine this week. Rainy season and mosquitos, pray that the team is diligent with DEET!

Sorry for the delay. It's already 3:20 PM on Thursday. We had a great trip although it was very long and somewhat sleep deprived. We got to the Mount Elgon Hotel in Mbale yesterday about 4:00 PM, that's 8:00 AM your time. This morning after a good nights sleep everyone is rarin to go. Pat, Beka and the rest of the group are deeply involved in organizing the books and getting the book shelves built. I had a good meeting this morning with Morris Ogenga, the Bible School board chairman and Vincent Ojanjo the administrator.

I joined the rest of the group at the orphanage for lunch. I was surprised how emotional I got meeting the administrator and other staff of the orphanage for the first time. After praying for them and hearing from them for the past three years it moved me a lot to meet them and share hugs together. Then Pat introduced me to the two orphans that we have helped sponsor for that time. It's quite different getting a hug from these children that you've only know by pictures, mail and messages from others who have been here.

I'll let Pat and Beka add the next blog and hopefully add a picture or two.

Start of a new venture, blogging by Leon, Pat & Bekah

Blogging is a new experience for us but we wanted to keep our friends and prayer partners informed as we travel to Mbale, Uganda and back via London, U.K. This is Saturday morning in Houston but the posting time on this blog will be Uganda time. We are excited and taxing our brains as we work to get our stuff organized and try to remember all the important things that we have to do. Pat expects to work in the clinic at the orphanage. Bekah will work with about 8 others on our team in organizing the 4,000 library books that have just arrived for the orphanage and Christian school. That will include teaching the children how to use this new library. She and Pat will also be the photographers so that you can see some of what we see. I will be spending time with the leadership of CBIT (Covenant Bible Institute of Theology). We are setting up a 501(3)c non-profit corporation in the USA to support the school and provide communication and coordination with the board and leaders of CBIT in Uganda. We expect to recruit and send seminary teachers, pastors and other teachers to CBIT to teach short courses. This is a college level, three year school with three teachers with Masters degrees, and sixty students. There are many more applicants to the school but the number of students is limited by the facility space and number of staff.