Yup. It’s morning. Had my COFFEE, made some breakfast, organized the disorder, motivated the offspring (and self) and now in the banda working on the academic part of our schooling lives. (Living in Uganda is education itself . . . working in ministry is eye-opening to be sure . . . functioning without the so-called conveniences of life hones the process of maturation--spiritual and physical).
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| Who's really in charge here? |
As they work on math, phonics, research papers, reading, history and science, I “work” on being better at keeping this space updated.
Saturday, August 4th we harvested the David Family maize gardens from about 8 a.m. until 11:30. It was a great harvest and yielded healthy prospects for months of maize supply. Fun.Fun.Fun being in the fields with the kids--listening to their talk, jokes and crazy songs. And Kakande, oh, Kakande who failed to understand why he couldn’t sit in the front seat for the ride back to the family compound---the interior of the car was piled high and threatening to spill out our recently harvested maize if the front door was even opened! 
On Tuesday night we had the privilege of sharing supper with our friends from India. It was the first time I’ve ever cooked goat (NO!, not our sweet “Holy” but store bought) and I received 1st rate compliments on my attempt! They have spent a month visiting and speaking here at New Hope. The tales of their life and work in India brought great perspective to the lack of persecution we face here as well as the challenges they live day-to-day there.
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| The Britton and Jiten Families |
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| The Jiten and Britton families (minus Kevin and plus Junior) |
Our boys fully broke up and cleared the disintegrated floor in their banda last week and spent the week putting down new cement. Today they are working on painting the walls. Though it was hard work, they’ve enjoyed learning something new while working hard to improve their living condition.
Our second week of a four week school holiday between 2nd and 3rd terms for New Hope is nearing an end. This weekend the Heart of Worship team will be leaving for a worship retreat at Musana Camps on Lake Victoria, half of the Investment Year group will be participating in the “Father Heart” weekend and the EYO group is preparing to leave for outreach early, early Tuesday morning for the Kapachorwa area (where the Olympic Gold Medalist is from!!!). They will minister for a week in that area and Geoff is traveling with them.
The last week of August will culminate the month-long holiday with a mini-envisioning program for the staff in which the major focus will be attention to the truths of God regarding manhood and womanhood.
Well, that’s it for now . . .
4 comments:
Sounds like a busy but thoroughly great week! So how DOES goat taste and how did you cook it?
Goat is not gamey like I've found elk, deer and lamb to be. It has a unique, but not strong taste. Kevin says it tastes, "somehow like cow, but it is less stringy than cow" and Acacia adds, "yeah, less tough than cow." For this dish I fully browned the goat pieces which were "stew meat" pieces so each one had a bone and a little fat. Not my favorite cut, but perfect for what our visitors enjoyed. Then I seasoned it with a variety of spices, but mostly Indian spices: cumin, dhana jeera mix, breyani mix, mutton bullion, garlic, onion, cardamon, turmeric, more cumin, sesame seeds and sesame oil and brown sugar. I added some meat tenderizer when, after an hour, they still felt a little tough for me. Then I added enough water to cover it and let it boil for 2.5 hours. I thickened it with corn starch and we ate it over rice. COME FOR SUPPER SOME TIME!!!!!!
P.S. also a little cayenne pepper! yummy
Now that doens't sound so bad!
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