We're Home!

We arrived back in St. Louis yesterday around 5:00 pm ~ only one hour past our scheduled arrival time. Not bad for us! The trip home was pretty uneventful, other than being incredibly long. We were all thrilled to see our families, needless to say.

A few updates, since I haven't been able to write since Saturday morning. We visited the village of Kateete on Saturday. Their church building is complete and looks wonderful. We hope to do something similiar in Nakabango very soon. We enjoyed the kids singing, even as a chicken walked down the center aisle of the church. We handed out more treat bags and Kelly used the flannel board we gave them to tell the story of the birth of Christ.

Afterwards, we headed back to Kampala for some shopping and dinner at the Grand Imperial Hotel. It was a nice "last night in Uganda". A little excitement as we returned to the hotel after shopping. We were making a left turn into the parking lot and a motorcycle/scooter/taxi flew past us on the left trying to pass and ran into our bus! Fortunately the driver and his passenger were OK, although I'm sure they were sore the next day!

On Sunday, we checked out of the Mosa Courts and went to Charles' church in Kampala. They meet in the tent Messiah purchased for them 3 years ago. It's very nice ~ concrete floor and white plastic chairs. We loved the fact that they had to stack chairs after church, just like we do at Messiah!

We went to Charles' and Eva's home after church for lunch and to kick back before we left for the airport. They fixed us a wonderful lunch and we got to look at their wedding pictures. Their hospitality was great!

Headed to the airport around 6:00 and our flight left at 11:05 pm. Made all our connections and through customs in Chicago.

The trip was absolutely fabulous for so many reasons. God blessed our time together in amazing ways. I thank him for all the gifts he gave us during the past 10 days! Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support!