Writing Letters

Since the move to Gulu I have been teaching Izaac from home. In Jinja we had the benefit of a homeschool school. He had about nine kids in his class with one teacher. They were varied in grade but the beauty of the curriculum they chose was that it was student led so the teacher could more easily manage the different grades. We are hoping to find something in Gulu that we could join to give Izaac and hopefully Ellie some outside teaching. Maybe not full time but at least once a week. It has been going pretty well so far though a few days he really tried to talk his way out of doing school.  Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday we do his main subjects and Wednesday and Friday we do extra curricular things like art, athletics, some science experiments, and creative writing. For creative writing we decided to start writing letters to friends and family. They almost always add some artwork to the letter so I feel like we are accomplishing two things in one. Izaac is learning the proper way to write a letter and next week I am going to have him address the envelope too.

So if you would like a letter from Izaac or Ellie send me an email or message on Facebook with your address and we will send one. The mail system isn't always the best so it can sometimes take a long time to get to you and occasionally doesn't make it at all but we still send them and pray that they make it.

Officially in Gulu

Well we did it. We are officially moved to Gulu. I was going to write about moving but now a week and a half have past and I didn't really make the time. I will say one thing though, I was impressed with how much stuff they could fit on the truck.
 So now we are  here and settling in to life in Gulu. I (Christina) have been doing the book keeping for Our Call Missions, the new organization we partnered with which brought us to Gulu. It is nice to have a job and feel more useful. I know that raising our kids is my main priority and I know that our supporters know that but I was feeling like I was somehow letting them down. So now I am feeling more purposeful and I love numbers so this is a good fit for me. It isn't something I have to do every day so I can still homeschool Izaac and Ellie and take care of all the things at home.

My Desk

 Speaking of home, we have gotten a few questions from people about where we are living. Currently we are living in a building we refer to as the EDI (Educator Develop Institute). This is where we hold trainings and conferences. For the next three months there isn't anything on the schedule so we moved into three of the rooms where the trainees stay. We turned one into a kitchen/dining room, one into the kids bedroom/playroom/school room, and one into our bedroom/living room.

We are hoping and praying that our house we are building will be far enough along that we can move into it before the next conference which is in January. We know God is faithful and has been with us each step of the way and had gone before us in this to supply the finances, supplies, and people willing to help. The containers were suppose to come in September but we got bumped back until this month. So Lord willing the containers are now suppose to arrive the 13th and 14th. I can't wait to share the progress with you! Please be praying for us during this time! If you want to give towards our house please click the link under support on the right side of this page. If you want to come visit and help us build let us know. We would love to have you!