Sewing skills at Home of Love

Our older girls were thrilled to getting sewing lessons during August school holiday - they sewed aprons and enjoy working on the aprons even on weekends as they improve their sewing skills!

Rattin family March-April update

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Church Planting conferences

Jim Robinette recently coordinated a marathon 3-country Church Planting conference tour with co-laborers for Christ from North America.  Pictured are friends involved in one of the Church Planting Conferences in Kampala, Runhergeri and Kigali, Rwanda and Bujumbura, Burundi. 

The Pearl of Africa

Uganda is a beautiful country! Recently, the Rattin family found a little island in the middle of the Nile River that has been set up as a camp ground (with cabins).  What fun to swim in the Nile with new friends (red tail monkeys) keeping VERY close watch over the swimmers!

Hot/dry season

Hot season is now in full swing in Uganda - dry heat with blowing dusty winds from the Sahara desert.  Only at dawn is there some relief from the heat.  And yet, in the midst of such a hot season, mango tree produce their fruit!

Rattin family January update

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Dry season

January-April are generally dry/hot season in Uganda - although Kampala gets a bit more rain than the north (Gulu), it still gets dusty, windy, and HOT.  Sand/dust blows in from the Sahara Desert, mango trees blossom excessively, and everything (except the mango trees) turns brown.  Dry season is an important time of the year for drying thatch for roofing and making bricks.

Thatch roofing

Dry season arrives in January and sticks around until March or April.  This is the time to make and burn bricks and dry grass for thatch roofs.  These huts are awaiting a new thatch roof.  If your roof leaks before dry season you just have to wait until the grass is ready in dry season!

This is the inside of a hut roof - beautiful isn't it? 

(This design is actually available as a notecard for sale with proceeds benefitting ACTION Gulu)

Pastoral training

Pastoral Leadership Development is a key ministry of ACTION in Uganda - conferences for poor pastors, one-on-one discipleship, and resources to equip each pastor to care for their own congregation.