Welcome 2010!!!

We are already 11 days into the new year and soooo much has happened and is continuing to happen!! This year has been full of excitement! Weird to think that at the end of January I will be half ways done with my time here in Uganda! I wake up everyday wondering where time is going! But I am anticipating God to move in some powerful ways in the coming months amongst His people here.

Reflecting back on 2010 and where God has taken me already I am understanding more and more what greater things God has in store for me! I have been on an emotional ride the past couple of weeks with different events happening but God has remained faithful to me and continues to lift me up!

As of tomorrow morning Linda and I will be moving to Watoto Suubi Children's Village to help with the opening of the new babies home! Very excited to be a part of this! When I was in Uganda back on Feb. of 2009 this babies home was being constructed and to see how far it has come and just how beautiful it is is just WOW!!! We will be living out there till Monday of next week and return back to Kampala to continue working at the Bulrushes. 19 babies will be moving on Wednesday morning to Suubi babies home. Would covet your prayers during that move and during the week that I spend there! It will be very long working days and always being a call to help where needed! Pray that God will grant Linda and I extra strength each day to be an effective part of this transition for these toddlers!

Some not so happy news to share was the day that I posted my last blog and requested special prayer on baby Chris' behalf was the day that Chris went to be with Jesus! Twas a very sad time and please pray for the staff that are effected by this. Chris has a twin brother Victor that remains at the Bulrushes! However in the last week we did get a BEAUTIFUL girl by the name of Esther that was welcomed at the babies home. She is a toddler and wow cannot believe how a little TLC makes the biggest difference in the life of a neglected child. She is in our clinic right now. She is an HIV child. Esther I believe is at level 3 or 4 and her chest x-rays came back clear and we are just waiting on some other results to come back as of right now. But do pray for her body and that with the help of staff at Baby Watoto and the local doctors that God would heal her body and keep her strong! I sense great things for this girl and just love her to death!

Prayer requests:

* pray that Suubi village move would go well and that babies adapt well to all the change around them and for safety traveling to and from the village.

* pray for those affected by the death of Chris and for his twin brother Victor.

* one of our nurses is really struggling right now! She acidently pricked herself with a needle that was used on one of our HIV babies and so it has been a big scare to her as to whether or not it has entered her body! HIV scares are a big deal and please join me in praying a sheild of protection around Rachael's body and continue to pray that until the results come back that she could have peace about it!

* pray for Watoto Children's Choirs that leave on tour this week! There are several choirs that have been training for months and pray for traveling safety and that God was use them in a powerful way to spread His love and also raise awareness about the millions of orphans all over Africa that are affected by war and HIV/AIDS!! They changed my life when I heard them 6 years ago and know they are changing the lives of many others!

Oh how could I forget to share that in the last 2 weeks three of my beautiful babies have taken their first steps. You know I hear mothers at home talk about their babies and how they started walking and I was like oh yeah that must be great now they can get into everything now! But wow I never knew it could be sooooo exciting!! Guess you can call me a "mom" now! :)

Thank you for taking time to read my blogs and for caring and praying! Means more than you will ever know!

For the children,

Kara

*pictured above is Esther and I!