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The Next Generation Issue III // September 2022 Mjabale! ("Well done" - the standard greeting in both Luganda and Lusoga). Now you respond "kale" (pronounced /kah-le/ not /keil/), which is a catch-all to mean some sort of agreement - eg. okay, yes, you're welcome, I agree, etc... And then you return the greeting, and I'll also respond. Now that we're both welcome here, I want to talk about our lives with children, which seems to be the largest part of our ministries, both past and present, even though we're not even parents ourselves! As a son and daughter from two large families - 10 and 12 children - we have both grown up surrounded by children. I currently have 12 nieces and nephews from my family's side (with one more on the way, and about 15 honorary nieces and nephews through my in-laws), and Sam's side has one nephew, with another on the way. I've been a nanny, Sunday School assistant, then teacher, VBS staff, puppet team member, a...

The Rainbird Issue II //August 2022 It's now reached August, and I've been in Uganda for 9 months. This wasn't my first time to come to the Pearl of Africa but it  is  my longest stay. In my last post, I said I would try to update the blog a few times a month. I think [realistically] I will be doing it once or twice a month. It's strange how time passes - whether we feel like we're doing a lot or not much is going on, the day ends, the week finishes, and before long a new month has passed. However, the more activities we're involved in, the quicker these seasons change. Before I realized that it had really started, dry season ended. And now the rains pour. I have yet to hear the rainbird; but that hasn't stopped these heavens from opening in a tropical downpour. I hope it will also cool the minds and clear the heads. Last week the opposition party planned protests against the rising prices of  everything . The plan was for three days, specifically targeting ...

Bagole: the newlyweds Issue I // November 2021 to July 2022 I'll start with my life's timeline: Born March 1993 in Portland, Oregon to Ukrainian/Russian immigrant parents; the sixthborn in what would become a family with 12 children; raised in a Slavic Evangelical church; accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior at the age of nine; majored in Nursing and French Studies at university; left the country for the first time at 21 years old on a missions trip to Mexico; and the next year I flew off of the continent for the first time (I graduated with my BSN in May 2015, took the NCLEX on a Wednesday in July, and was on a plane the next morning) - on my way to Uganda, East Africa; visited Uganda several times over the next years, one of those times being in 2018 for my Discipleship Training School (DTS) through YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Hopeland (where I met my husband-to-be, which apparently is a common YWAM story); after all manner of complications in our long-distance relatio...