Encouragement

It is always great to receive visitors from home who give a boost to the staff here, and over the weekend one of our Canadian board members, Helen, paid us a visit.  She was able to see first hand the development of the Timothy Centre project and also see some of the changes that have taken place in Kibaale over the last 5 years or so.

Our community services director, Samalie, was able to share some of the exciting updates about our post secondary students who are now being assisted to attend university and are gaining a strong reputation as students of integrity and faith.  Several are taking positions of leadership in the institutions they attend and are looked up to as models for other students.  We praise God for these great  reports!

While we were visiting Samalie, we also met one of our students who had a dream of studying medicine and who was praying for some time for the opportunity to open up.  Just this past week he heard that a doctor in Canada who has been sponsoring his secondary education in Kibaale has agreed to help him through medical school.  He was absolutely thrilled and was excitedly making plans to travel to university this week. 

  

Samalie’s daughter, Esther, was very happy to have some attention from “the visitors” as we showed Helen the site. 

We were also able to “talk” to Justus, one of our staff children who is studying in our Special Unit for hearing impaired students.  He is confident in his use of sign language and is always happy to communicate with someone who has even a little knowledge of sign language.  Justus is another student who brings us special pride, as he is learning the regular Ugandan primary school curriculum (through sign language) and his teachers hope he will be able to write the government exams at the end of his studies.