MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 06-14-2008

Hello again! Our trip to Hammond, IN went well. We went to both services at 1st Baptist of Hammond on Sunday, and presented our burden for Uganda in the evening service. We got to hear some great preaching from Jack Schaap, and had a great day fellowshipping with the folks at FBH. It was a good meeting, and was worth the trip. On Monday, before we went back to St. Louis, we visited the Chicago Field Museum, because I've always wanted to go see the Maneaters of Tsavo, which are on display there. These are the actual lions that in 1898 terrorized the British-sponsored rail building crew that was constructing a railroad across Kenya and Uganda. All told, they killed and consumed 140 men before Colonel John Patterson killed them both. They were a unique pair of male, maneless lions in perfect health that happened to have a taste for human flesh to the exclusion of all other food.Our meeting last week in Louisiana had to be rescheduled, so we've been enjoying a needed respite from travelling. We're home until the first week of August, when we'll begin our Fall journeys. I'll be filling the pulpit here in our home church in July while my Pastor and his family go on vacation, among other things. It's been very good to be home for a bit.

Today, Anna and I ran our first official 5K race down at the riverfront in St. Louis. We've been preparing for months, running up and down the hilly, gravel roads in Bowie, TX, and today we attained our goal. This is one of the things we do to stay in shape so we'll be in prime physical condition when we go to Africa. We both finished the, as we later figured it, 5.5K run at 34'07", which is pretty good for our first time. We're going to try to do another run sometime this summer, and will be working hard on decreasing our run times.

That's all for now.