Uganda Babies: Take 3

We are down to our last 2-1/2 weeks to complete final preparations before we begin our third trip to Sanyu Babies Home. We look forward, with much anticipation, to reuniting with our friends there, getting reacquainted with some babies who are now a year older than when we last saw them, meeting new babies and seeing what exciting things God has planned.

Before we left Uganda last year, God placed on our hearts the need for new, safer cribs and toddler beds for the children. We discussed this with Barbara (the director) and decided to make that a project if we were able to raise enough funds that would permit replacement of the worn and weary ones currently being used. Through the generosity of many donors and fundraiser participants, we have almost reached the goal of being able to provide all the new furniture required - 23 cribs and 22 toddler beds, and we're confident we will have the entire amount before we leave. Through a friend living in the country, we were able to get some money to the orphanage a couple of weeks ago so construction at a local carpentry shop has already begun! Thank you to all who have made this possible.

If you have followed this blog during our past trips, you know that Sanyu is a place where joy and sadness collide. And so it was with a bit of sadness that we received the joyful news last week that we will not find "our daughters" when we return this time. Sweet Florence and Joselyn will be with their forever families. It was a joy and a privilege to be touched by their lives. We are so grateful to Sanyu for standing in the gap for these precious girls and working on their behalf to remain true to the Sanyu mission, "To provide Christ-like love to babies and children deprived of parental love and reintegrating them into the community through reuniting them with their families, fostering or adoption."