WUNDERLI WANDERINGS

Where do you sweat in 50 ° C temperatures without actually sweating whilst easily drinking 6 liters a day? Sudan in the dry season! I just recently spent a week with AidSudan to install their satellite dishes for live radio broadcasting. Meeting Kerry, Kerrie-Jean and Wayne early Monday morning at MAF’s home base in Kajjansi I first did a detailed pre-flight inspection before loading up 1050 kilos of hardware, tools, food stuff, medicines and bags. Every remaining kilo was used up by fuel. Weighing just over 4 tons we took off into the calm morning skies. A quick stop after 1.5 hours flight in Arua (northern Uganda) to do immigration and refuel and the same again after 2.5 hours flight on the other side of the boarder in Wau (South Sudan) brought us to Malualkan after just another quick 30 minute hop. Steve who works with “Kush for Christ” was waiting for us on arrival there. A short ½ hour drive took us to their compound on which also the radio mast and studio are built. We im...

A good thing about the dry season is that I don't need to normally worry about getting stuck in mud on the school runs and having to get out and push cars etc.  However, this morning was a bit different.  The road to school is under construction with no real rhyme or reason as to how it is being done.  Everyday you drive it there is always some surprise in how it looks.  Yesterday when I went to pick up the children I wasn't sure I was going to make it with all the mud and piles of dirt but fortunately did.  This morning I thought I would take a back road to school which is narrow but passable.  It seems like a lot of other people thought the same so we sat in a traffic jam for a bit.  The dust was amazing and on the way down one road you couldn't see the car in front it was like a sand storm. (Just waiting for all of us to get coughs and colds now :() Anyway we finally ran the gauntlet and made it to school in one piece.  I decided to try the m...

Simon is in S*uth S*dan this week with a team from Aid S*dan.  He left yesterday and will be back on Saturday.  Simon will be flying them to three different places where they have some radio projects.  A technician from the States arrived to help them sort out some connectivity problems that they have been experiencing.  Hopefully he will be able to locate the problem and enable the Chr*stian radio broadcasts to be more reliable as they seek to transform lives within these different communities.  Pray for productive work times and good fellowship together.  Pray also for safety with all the flights. Tomorrow I start a new series for the Ladies Bible study.  We finished Genesis last week and so we will be doing a topical series on prayer for the next month or so.  Pray with us that each lady that joins will grasp the power of prayer and make it a priority in their lives.  I found the following quote on Facebook today from Moody Theological S...

Thanks to many of you who have read our blog and been praying for Summer.  She returned to Uganda after spending almost a week in Kenya having tests done. She stayed with us last Thursday night before heading up to Kitgum with a MAF flight on Friday morning.  The first time she came down with the bus and said never again...Praise the Lord for MAF!  I am not biased at all of course. :) I was going to give you a summary of the last update I have on Summer but I think it would be easier to use her words so here they are.... I want to thank you once again for taking the time to lift my health up in prayer. It has definitely been a test in who I will trust, man or God. While we all understand that doctors are helpful and on many occasions necessary, there are times where they do not have the answers {after all, they are limited in their knowledge in light of an all knowing God}. With that said, we are still without any concrete diagnosis for my current health ...

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for our friend Summer.  She is still in Kenya as I write but hopes to fly to Uganda tomorrow so she can be reunited with her family on Friday. She has given an update in her blog which I have copied here.  Please keep praying. From Summer: Well, some people say no news is good news. I am not sure that I would always agree! After a colonoscopy/endoscopy, 40 blood tests and an MRI, we are still no closer to a diagnosis (unless you count "severe IBS"). Biopsy results will be ready next week, but the doctor did not sound like she expected anything significant. All the while, I am trying to make sense of living with a chronic undiagnosed condition that loves to rear it's ugly head way too often! I am going to meet with a nutritionist tomorrow morning--in hopes that I can figure out a solution for my overly thin frame (I believe I now weigh what I did at 13). Please keep praying if the Lord would so lead you. One woman as...

Last week we got a call from Summer, whom we have know for many years, to ask if she could stay with us whilst she got some medical tests done.  Summer and her husband work in a place called Kitgum in Northern Uganda.  You can read about their ministry in their own blogspot www.fromglory2glory.blogspot.c om The medical tests were to be done to make sure her liver was clear of all malaria parasites as she had been having recurring malaria.  Thankfully these tests came back clear but she explained to the tropical disease Doctor that she still wasn't feeling well.  The Doctor took some further tests and the tests revealed that she is suffering from anemia due to some internal bleeding.  The Doctor recommended that she fly to Nairobi as the correct tests were not available in Uganda.  On Friday she will have some exploratory tests done, an endoscopy, colonoscopy and laproscopic biopsy.  She flies to Kenya tomorrow and will stay wi...

Our special wee kiddies  Working our way through the rainforest...sometimes it was on all fours! Zara and Ruben - best friends Another wonderful view of God's creation Enjoying some cool off in the pool together