Gather Around The Flag Pole

Every morning before school, over 500 students and staff gather around the flag pole and say their national anthem and pray. Some of you might remember when we use to do stuff like that.  I zoomed in on the four year olds and one little guy seems to be giving another little guy some much needed advice. Yesterday we had a nice rain that really cooled things off which was real nice while it lasted.  Back to hot and hotter today and is supose to really warm up the next few days.  You can bet old chunko here doesn't move to fast when it heats up.  Come to think of it, I don't move to fast anytime, anymore.  Keep moving forward though, right?  Been doing some interesting interviews lately.   I hope to share them with you as time goes by.  Thanks for reading this,  Blessings from Harvesters in South Sudan.

R U Crazy!!! Alaska to South Sudan

If you could go anyplace in world, why would you pick Southern Sudan? 
Stacey and Denver Urlaub have  an easy answer for that question.  They have been supporting three kids at Harvesters for three years and those kids kept inviting them to come all the way From Alaska to the other side of the world.  So they ask God and they felt very comfortable that He wanted them to go, so they did.  They spent a month here and God use them a very good way.  They spoke and taught and built things.  But I think they would say that building relationships with the kids was the most important thing that happened.  I only got to be around Stacey and Denver for a few days, but it was long enough to know they are very kind and generous people and the kids here really enjoyed them being here. 
If you ever thought of really stepping out on a limb a little bit and maybe coming to a place like Harvesters, Denver and Stacy allowed me to post their email in case you might have some questions about their vacation that turned into a mission trip they will never forget.
denver_urlaub@yahoo.com    drop them a line or two....

Jane Gummoh Owanga

I so wanted to be able to upload video from here, but as of now it doesn't look like that is going to happen until I get back to the US.  I wanted you to hear the wonderful accents and see the beautiful character in the faces of all these interesting people that make up Harvesters.  We obviously have a lot of Sudanesse people, but also Kenyans, Ugandans, Yanks, and a few Aussies and Kiwis thrown in to spice things up a bit.  So for now I will just try to give a brief discription of some of the characters that make this boat float....

Jane Gummoh Owanga was born in Kakamega Western Kenya 34 years ago.  She is of the Luhya tribe and is also single.  Jane has a college level certificate and is the office manager for Harvesters. She loves kids and  the Lord but she came from Kenya for the work.  Finding someone with Jane's skills was not easy to do, but God sent them Jane.  To give you an idea of the compassion in this womens heart; she is supporting 15 kids as they get their education.  These are not her bilogical kids, but she is like a mother and a father to many of them.  She has a warm and gentle spirit and I am proud to call her my friend.

If you would like to send Jane a word of encouragement you can contact her @
maryjgum@yahoo.com   or facebook @ Jane Gummon Owanga

African Food

I guess it fair to call the food we eat African food because we are eating it in Africa.  However, I must say that the cooks do the best they can to make us comfortable with our food.  Every lunch and dinner we have beans and rice.  The rice is normal white rice and the beans are a red bean cooked in a tasty sauce.  For every meal  they try to add a side of some kind, such in the this pic we had green beans for the first time and a potato salad made without the tradtional mayo.  We have had chicken a few times and a taco thing one time.  Today is Sunday and for lunch after church we we had a treat of mashed potatoes, fried chicken, and green beans and as always, rice and beans.  Dinner is always left overs from lunch.  Breakfast is almost always oatmeal and bannanas.  Sunday mornings we have had omlettes and one time we had pancakes.  I have to say I am very pleased with the food that they give us.  I not losing the weight like I wanted, so I must be hitting the feed bag pretty good....
Now I am going to spend the rest of the day and night trying to upload an interview with Ms. Jane Owanga, a very interesting yough women....

03/10/13 Day 498 24,797 Total Miles

Well up loading photos and videos has turned into a real problem.  I tried for 16 hours to upload a great little interview with Jane Owanga, a staff member here.  Didn't work.... ugh!!!  Decided to send you this picture of our mess hall along with one of the inside and also a typical plate of food.  After an hour and half I gave up trying to get more than one picture on a blog.  I am going to send this and try and send another blog with the food info.  Thanks for your patience....

Compound Walk About 03/07/13

This a quick tour of about 1/3 of the compound.  Hopefully in the future I will be able do some editing and the quality will be better.  It took over 14 hours to download this little video onto my blog site.  I hope I can figure out something quicker down the road.
God Bless all of you and I hope you enjoyed this little tour Harvesters Reaching The Nations in Yei, South Sudan

Scary Video

I recorded this last weekend by holding the camera in my hand.  Besides being to close, it is obvious that I need a trim.  That's alright as this was the first in a series of experiments.  Blessings.....