Getting There

YO!
I'm spending the week with pastors from South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda. They are going through CHE (community health empowerment) training. I am going through the training as well, so that I can better understand the culture and life here. Today we learned how a more efficient stove can be an evangelism tool. It goes like this. A woman living on the Somali/Kenya border learned how to build a stove that burns less wood. Burning less wood means spending less money on supplies. The woman invited her Muslim friends over for tea and they were very curious about this stove they had never seen before. She explained how it works and how it is saving her money which she can spend on her children's education or for house improvements etc. All the sudden the Muslim women were interested in her new stove. She came over to the house of a Muslim woman and together they worked on a new stove. The muslim woman invited her muslim friends to come meet this woman who made her new stove. The husbands of the muslim women love having more money in their family, so they don't mind when their wives spend time with this Christian woman. So, a new stove leads to ministry opportunities. So far, 5 women have been saved on the Somali border.
These are the types of things we are learning about this week. How can the local Christians improve the way of life in the community (clean water, disease etc.) to empower the local community to a better way of life. And through all this, to establish relationships to with the community to introduce them to Christ. Pretty cool stuff.
General things:
1. I can almost sleep through the night now and am just as close to making through the day without the need for a nap. Time change is almost complete!
2. Weather: It's great. I compare it to mid-September. It's in the 60's when we wake up and the 80's during the day. It rains every day, but not for very long and then the sun usually comes back.
3. The Coppedge family and the Rambo family are the 2 families serving in Arua, so expect to hear more about them in the coming months. They had a cake for me on Saturday when I got here, which was great.
That's all for now.
Much love,

CT