Gulu ADP Celebration

Greetings from Team Gulu!  I have the privilege of sharing today about our morning experience at the Gulu ADP office. As we did yesterday, we began our morning there after bittersweet goodbyes to Sarah and Anthony Sytsma who left to return home to Soroti. Our time with them was precious, learning more about their ministry and life here in Uganda. I personally loved hearing about Sarah's cooking adventures and Anthony's efforts to create a learning library for pastors in his area, using the books we were able to bring him in our luggage.


           At the ADP regional office, we began with praise and worship and dance, joining with our Brothers and Sisters in Christ in a beautiful picture of God's saints worshiping together around the throne.  Revelation 7:9-12

The joy evident in the praise of these faithful servants was humbling and so encouraging as they continue in their selfless work in Gulu serving the community families and our sponsored children.


Jeff Andridge shared a message with the group on John 15:1-5, our team passage for this trip. He blessed the group with a visual reminder of how God prunes us all to bear more fruit and when we abide in Him, we bear MUCH fruit.


A special treat occurred for us as Harriet, the cluster office manager shared an annual report update.  They had received a letter from management offices stating that all their monitoring indices were "in the green."  We learned that the bar is very high--100% in fact, as they measure completeness of the childcare workers' tasks.  Specifically measured are the needed home/child visits, including added monitoring when necessary in a 30-day periods.  They met green in ALL areas, the highest ranking possible. The beautiful part about this was the celebration that ensued. Arms were raised in a circle of Praise to God and we gladly shared in giving hugs to everyone in the staff as we celebrated with them. The translation here is that the sponsored children from MEFC in the Gulu area are receiving WONDERFUL care from godly men and women who love Jesus and love these children, and continue in selfless acts daily to complete their work. Words cannot express fully the privilege it was to be a part of that celebration!


           My heart has been full every day in all that I am learning about World Vision!

Love, Leslie