Osanidde

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! I pray blessings on you as you read this and open your heart to the children I wish to tell you about. I have just returned from spending a week on Bussi Island at Osanidde Village. Osanidde is a Lugandan word meaning 'He is worthy' and it is pronounced 'oh sunny day'. Osanidde Village is home for 160 children, 16 mamas, 9 teachers, many aunties and uncles and one nurse. My favorite thing about Osanidde is how joyful these children are. You would never guess they are orphans from the joy that emits from them as they play futbol, tag, dance or sing for their King.
Throughout my week stay I spent much of my time learning the way of life in the Village. Very limited electricity means meals are prepared over a fire which was wonderful because for me it was like camping! And oh such wonderful food; matoke-kind of a banana, cassava-a root, pineapple, cow's milk and posho- porridge. I love it all! My afternoons were spent playing with the younger children as they only went to school until 1pm. Throughout the day I would visit the clinic as wounds occurred but mainly worked there in the evening. When I was in the clinic I cared for wounds, infections, malaria, colds and much coughing.
I would like to share with you about one child in particular. His name is Christopher. Christopher and I spent much time together reading my Bible and talking about the differences between America and Uganda. I would like to share his words with you which I recorded via my phone.
'My name is Christopher. I am 11 years old and I come from Osanidde Village. I want to serve the Lord and be a man of the Lord. A long time ago I was a muslim but a long time ago Jesus saved me and has helped me. I am an orphan. I do not have any parents, but I think Jesus will help me. I want to see you all in America but I cannot get any chance because I am an orphan. Let the Lord be your Saviour and my Saviour. I will pray for you to be saved. You will pray for me and the Lord will help me when you pray for me. I want to serve the Lord and see the Lord work in everything. The Lord is our Saviour. I want to say that I will pray for you. You pray for me. I am an orphan. God bless you so much. Bye bye.'
Christopher is just one of the voices from Osanidde calling out to the Lord, and to anyone who will listen, for love. I besiege you to pray for Christopher and the other children at Osanidde. It truly is one of the happiest places on earth- better even than Disneyland! I have attached just a few photos taken during my time there, the rest are on facebook. Here is a link to Osanidde's website as well if you would like to read more about it: http://harvestministry.org/osanidde. I am continually so thankful for your support through finances, prayer and encouragement. Life in Africa proves to be something new each day and it means so much to me that I have so many of you with me. I love you all and pray for you daily.

~Kelly
p.s. I must include briefly our adventure of the other day. We have had a green mamba snake terrorizing our compound now for three days. Each time the snake man comes to catch him we lose it in a tree. However yesterday our day guard, Geoffrey, was determed to kill it. So as a crowd gathered to watch outside, five men began attacking the snake in a tree to make it fall down then proceeded to beat it to death with sticks. After cutting the head off-just to be sure, I dissected it and have now dried the skin to place on my wall. My long term goal is to make a hat band for my cowgirl hat! Ah, TIA! So many random adventures along the way when you surrender life to the Lord amen??