Safe Arrival in Uganda!

Praise God as we have arrived safely to Uganda are blogging from our hotel! There was really nothing that could have gone much smoother. We have all of our bags, the team is ready for bed (It's midnight and everyone feels like it) and we had a great Ugandan dinner on arrival. After a lot of over planning regarding getting our medications in the country, we breezed through security, without a question. Just the way we like it!

As we prepare for bed, we are learning all about Africa and how things are different here. About half the team members do not have mosquito nets in their rooms and we are working on that as this is being written. In fact, we just heard that "oh, well mosquitoes won't go up to the third floor". Pretty sure they are there. No shower curtains, shared hot water heaters (think they are of the 2 or 3 gallon variety), 6 gallons per flush toilets, drove from the airport to our hotel without headlights and the lights went out for several minutes a the airport. All makes for great stories and really good team building experience.

Tomorrow we take a Kampala City Tour, purchase a few more medications, meet the rest of the team we will be working with and take a walking tour of Nakawa, where we will be working.

A few prayer items:

1. That we would all have mosquito nets and that our malaria preventive meds would be effective.

2. That we would work well with our Ugandan team members who will be working with us at the clinic.

3. That we would be effective in sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those we encounter.

Blessings to all of you!

Team Woodlands Uganda 2010

P.S. It appears we will have reliable Internet connection, so we should be able to keep up the blog. Unless of course the power goes out or the smell of rotten feet in this room rots the computer, which seems quite likely right now.