Trip to Jinja

This weekend we had an amazing opportunity to visit the neighboring town of Jinja. The drive was so beautiful! Through amazing green hills of Tea plantations, and trees, we saw along the way a few small collections of living areas. We had the opportunity to hop in a small boat on Lake Victoria, to visit "the source of the Nile"! The main reason for our trip was to hear from a few missionaries working in different areas, and this was amazing as well.
One couple was from Calvary Chapel in New Mexico, their names were Bev, and Jesse. They work entirely in the prisons around Jinja, and have done so for about ten years with great testimony of the Lord's work through times of not really knowing what to do, through times of "normality", and through times of elation. Many good things they shared with us about being a couple, about hearing God's call, and about going serving in His name even when the people around them have such little hope of returning to lives of abundance here on earth.
There are 16 of us in the IMME group that will take these trips, and on Friday we were all able to spend some time worshipping together for a little bit. After a few of us went to bed, a brother whom we did not know (his name was Ian) decided to join us. We really enjoyed meeting him and learning that he was part of a team that was serving God through something called "The Amazing Race". Ian prayed with us and shared some good things that he'd seen and been learning as their team traveled for missions purposes with the Amazing Race. (They'll be going to a number of countries over the next 11 months).
I think this trip to Jinja helped me to interact with Ugandans outside of the school setting, and it also was good to take what we've been discussing in classes regarding the Gospel, and ask questions about it to servants of the Lord who are living it out here in this Ugandan culture.
Please feel free to email any questions or suggestions as to what I'm sharing!
Love,
Geoff