*In the U.S. zebra stripes = black and white paint on the pavement to indicate where pedestrians should walk to cross the road.
*In East Africa zebra stripes = 4-legged mammals with black and white stripes usually seen in groups, and sometimes crossing the road you were driving along through Kenya until you suddenly realized they were indeed coming ACROSS the road.
*In the U.S. sugar cane field = an exotic sounding plant, what does it look like?
*In East Africa sugar cane field = a great landing place for the tire that just flew off of your car, creating a long scar down the road as the axle drug on the pavement.
*For a normal person, a tire flying off your car while driving = catastrophe
*For T.I.A, a tire flying off your car while driving = being delayed a day so that I could spend the day with a dear friend in labor, and be one of the first to see the baby.
*In the U.S. raspberry swirl cookies = a package of cookies to eat.
*In East Africa raspberry swirl cookies = enough incentive to convince the border officers to let you proceed through the border without a heavy 'fine' because you are a day late in returning to Uganda.
*To an adult, a drain pipe = a nice way for water to drain down the hill.
*To some adventurous and inventive kids, a drain pipe = a great place to lay on each end and talk to each other from far away.
*To most, watermelon juice = the stuff that drains all over your counter when you cut up a watermelon.
*To a sick missionary who threw up all night, watermelon juice = rehydration extraordinaire in a bottle!
Some of you may remember several posts back, about a new land purchase for the Banda Sunday Celebration Point. The old pictures showed the bare land, and the pit starting to be dug for the pit latrine. Here you can see the brick walls around the double pit latrine, and the papyrus mats around the 'office' and storage for the church. The wooden poles are lining off the hope of the size of the structure at some point. The owned piece of land is pretty much taken up totally by the structure. The empty area around is not part of the plot. You can see that they have raised enough for what you see here, and have only enough iron sheets to put a roof over part of it, where they meet now.
A volunteer team from Main Street Bapt in Kentucky are here, they helped in a big way to get the church land. The head pastor, his family, and several church members have had their lives changed by following God's call on their lives to spend time and talent in Uganda, and to experience life in a drastically different way. Over and over again we hear people say, "They have so little physically, but their joy is great in knowing that Christ is their Savior."
This is looking from the side in the adjacent plot. You can see the pole structure, with the currently roofed area in the background, and one of the hills of Kampala even further back.
