Today, marks our first month spent in Uganda.
As we watched the sun creep up the hill just in front of our home, I couldn’t help but be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for the many experiences of God’s grace and provision for all our needs.
Truly, a magnificent sunrise this morning.
Also, I am deeply grateful for a husband who inspires others by putting his whole heart in serving those around him. Whether it is driving across town to pick someone up across bumpy dirt roads and through pot-holes, or taking a detour to run an errand for me, or stretching himself to teach all week at the Bible School to students from Uganda and Kenya who are hungry for God’s word, he is ever-willing and ready to do so.
Us and the pastors & students at the Bible School.
So proud to hear the students from Kenya sincerely inviting Cliff to Kenya to teach too.
So here’s thanking God for a very precious stove and oven that we were blessed with in Africa. It may seem like a small thing to others, but it means a great deal to me, for someone who loves to express her love through cooking. Truly, He provides above and beyond all that we could ever think or imagine.
And here’s rewarding a hungry man who has been loving others with a servant-hearted spirit… with a week of special meals- breakfast of french toast with scrambled eggs and Ugandan passionfruit jam; an attempt at beef-and-vegetable casserole for dinner; and a first baking attempt in Uganda of fresh banana-cinnamon cake, among some other culinary tries with limited ingredients and resources in a new land!
French toast, toast, scrambled eggs, PB, sliced apples and amazing Ugandan passionfruit jam.
We love sitting by the grass at our front porch having breakfast under the sunrise,
and watching the monkeys running past us!
The internet was too slow to get any decent baking recipe and we didn’t have milk or butter!
So am tremendously grateful this cake turned out right!
There was a lot of guessing and rough estimation!
Just love how banana-cinammon cake always makes a home smell so homely!
Just leftover dried-up chicken noodle “soup” made the day before,
with a layer of tomato sauce and cheese on top, baked in the oven.
(Finding cheese was a huge blessing! )
Glad he was surprised by the surprise!
We call this our “make-do lagsagne”, his favorite food!
Famished one afternoon at 230pm from running errands all morning,
this tuna pizza was a quick and easy lunch which the husband appreciated!
The dough fritter by the side is a common Ugandan snack 😛
An attempt at making Chinese food (fried noodles and fried rice) on 2 separate evenings.
(Finally, we found some leafy green vegetables at a roadside stall!)
Just love this man who is ever so encouraging and lavish with his praise, no matter how the food turns out. (Plus, he does all the dishes after a hard day’s work!)
Truly a joy and privilege to serve here together with you, Cliff.
Thank you all for journeying with us!
* All vegetables seen in this post were proudly bought by the roadside stalls of Uganda,
using English and a splattering of Lugandan!