God's Perfect Plan

All of our plans are finally set in stone. We woke up today with no plans for the next three days. Jacque Masiko took my mom and I for a very quick visit with the lawyer first thing this morning. The court is currently closed for anything besides criminal cases for the next three weeks, but there is still a way. We are trusting God to open the door if it be His will. Please continue in joining us in prayer over this adoption, that the Lord would give us favor and make it clear what we are to do every step of the way. As for the rest of our plans today, we now have a pretty full schedule. We just finished meeting with Jacque, and we were able to come up with plans for today, tomorrow, and Thursday. Right now, we are organizing all of the Compassion packages that all of you sponsors sent with us. Our driver took two of the house moms from the orphanage to go meet with Moses and Joan's real mother to try to get her to give us consent for custody. When he returns with the van, he will take us to Uganda's Compassion headquarters here in Kampala. We are going there to drop off all the packages to be dispersed throughout Uganda and also to make an appearance in order to keep up our good connections and reputation with the people there. We will then head back to the Agape orphanage and stay as long as time permits. We would like to spend some more time with the pastor, the mothers, and of course, the children. Tomorrow, we are going a short distance to Busia with Jacque Masiko. We will be there for both Wednesday and Thruday, and we should return some time Thursday evening. He is going there to help with a water project and has asked us to join him. It is a fairly new program with innovative ideas and great methods, and Jacque would like us to see it in action. We don't know exactly what we will do there or how the Lord is going to use us, but we are excited for the opportunity. It worked out very well, because we had absolutely no plans for Wednesday and Thursday. We ask for prayer for guidance and direction while we are there. We are open to however the Lord may use us. Also, we must seek the Lord and ask that He would reveal to us His plans for the Agape orphanage. We want to help them in any way that we can, but we haven't yet figured out what that might be. We are looking for opportunities for our church bodies to support and help this suffering orphanage. We fear that most of the children will end up back on the streets if a solution is not found. We are going to talk more with Pastor Tom, the head pastor and administrator at Agape, today, since he was unable to share with us his insight and thoughts yesterday. We will also get to see Meron, the girl whom I mentioned in my last post. She was being brought back to the orphanage at some point this morning, and I am excited to see her and talk with her. I hope and pray that we will get to show her the love of Jesus today and minister to her His great healing power. Our goal is to bring the freedom of Christ to these children. He is the only One who can truly set them free and give them real life. Thank you all once again for the prayers! We would not be able to accomplish nearly half of what we have been if it wasn't for all of your support. We can feel your love even over here. Thank you for following our where abouts and for keeping us in prayer continually. I will try to post more pictures tonight, but I could not get the videos to work. Love to all of you back home!