Michael & Cindy Bryant

After shifting (as our Ugandan friends say) from Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement to Lira yesterday, we spent some time with Pastor Silas Okello of Truth Fountain Ministries. Truth Fountain is SPC’s Mission Partner in this part of Uganda. Silas took us around Lira to visit the five students that SPC supports through Truth Fountain’s school fee program. All five are doing very well. The oldest are on track to be a nurse and an electrical engineer.

This morning, we travelled with Silas from Lira south to Aduku (about 43 miles) to deliver our last two MediCradles to Aduku Health Center IV. The doctor in charge gave us a tour of the place, including a visit to the the delivery room to welcome a just-then born baby into the world. We also got to see their three-theater surgical unit currently under construction and scheduled to be operational as early as September. But the best part was being with the dozen premature babies and their mothers in the NICU. This is where the MediCradles will be working. Aduku Medical Center conducts more than 100 deliveries each month, so they will have lots of opportunities to protect and promote the lives of many babies.

Truth Fountain is in the process of planting a church less than a mile from Aduku Health Center IV. So the donation of two MediCradles from Truth Fountain and SPC to the health center is a very good way to start building a trusting relationship between the church and the community.

The rest of our day was spent meeting with some of Truth Fountain’s leaders in Lira – telling them the MediCradle story, testifying about how God has worked this past year to preserve the life of our grandson Ames King through many months of NICU care at VCU, sharing ministry updates, singing hymns and praying together. We have known most of these leaders for nine years, so it was wonderful to be with them again, even for a little while. We finished the day with dinner at Silas’s house. His mother, Joyce, who seems to be near the end of her life, is living with Silas. We were able to meet this amazing lady, and to sing songs of faith and pray together for one another. The home-cooked local food was very good, too.

Tomorrow, we travel back to Jinja. On Sunday, we will worship and spend time with old friends. And on Monday, we fly back to Dulles from Entebbe through Brussels. Please pray for us. (Road travel here is a much greater threat to our health and lives than anything else.) But pray with thanksgiving to God for the completion of this very successful little project and for the life of every child who will benefit from the time he or she spends in one of these four MediCradles.

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