December 08

Well, Christmas came and went. I spent the Holidays with the Neil family in West Linn for the most part. I visited the Douglas house a few days, and I was even able to make it up to Redmond to see The Wrights. I have had a wonderful time. I got Some Belt Buckles, a DVD Player, a tripod for my camera, and I even got some rad Cologne; Drakkar Noir.

We had some extreme weather. some of the worst I have seen in Oregon. I know that people werent getting around because the snow was so deep. My truck handled it very well, and I was able to take friends and family where they needed to go. I was blessed to be able to serve in that way.

Abundant Life's Chrismas services were cancelled. I was expecting to run cameras, but was let off the hook due to the weather. Also work was cancelled for the whole week of Christmas.

I am back at work, Come to find out that we have another 4 day weekend coming up. Looks like Skanska got it right this year. I have Jan 1 and 2 off this year which means I can stay up on New Years Eve and not worry about having to go into work.

I have got the dates for the next trip to Uganda. July 14th through August 5th. I am really excited to be able to go and serve the Lord in that way again. You need to check out our website. I have added a few other neat places that you can go also.

Ukids Website
Adam's Pictures
Panoramio

Hopefully I will have enough time to change up the pictures a little in Picasa. Panoramio lets you see where in the world I took some of the pictures in google maps.
Also Take a look at the Ukids website. I dont quite know if it is ready for this years trip, but it is a good place to go to keep up with our trip when we go.

Ukids Booth at Expo Center

If you would like to come to the Expo Center, there will be a Ukids Booth that is selling greeting cards and T-shirts that were made using artwork from the orphans in Seeta, Uganda. This is a great opportunity to support God's work in Uganda. You can get some really cool artwork out of it at the same time. Those children are very talented. Please come and check us out. It will be November 28-30, and December 5-7 at the expo center. I hope that I see you there.

Another Trip to Uganda

From June 26 through July 14, I was in Uganda with Abundant Life Church for the 2nd go around. I was once more privileged to go and bring God some glory by helping those orphans and widows. We installed some "Smokeless" stoves in the kitchen of the building that we constructed last year, installed as many gutters on the Orphan homes that we could, and drained them all to Cisterns that were built prior to our arrival; per our request. We also had a pump house built that would filter the water collected and pump it back into the orphanage to 2 water towers placed within the orphanage. We were able to accomplish this in the 4 weeks that we had Missionaries there.
I did not get to do a safari like I was able to last year, but some others were.

I have posted some pictures on Google's Panoramio website. You can click on the link and go to my page on Panoramio. I just discovered it a little while ago. I recommend that you check it out. Its pretty cool.

www.panoramio.com/user/2349586

If you click on some of the pictures you will see on Google Maps where in the world I was when I took the picture.

Thanks for looking!

The next trip is looking like July 16, 2009 through August 6, 2009. This date is not set in stone, but it is a target date. There will be 1 team this time instead of the 2 that went last year. This makes it a little more difficult to coordinate but I think it is better. I enjoy being with a larger group. I was unable to connect with most everyone from Team 2 last year due to the short overlap time. Hopefully in the future I will be able to spend more time in Uganda.