Acker family

Jade's birthday party! We won't say how old he is!

Japanese food!!!! YUM!

The birthday boy (yes, Jade is the one in the hat)

Of course we can never do anything here without playing volleyball

Blowing out the candles- this requires a lot of help!

A-G on the playground

A-G's school program. Her class is very multi-ethnic, and her best friend is a girl from Ethiopia.

Jumping!

Jumping again!

We are so excited that A-G is able to jump without having to worry about her leg. It has been over a year since her surgery and she is definitely back to 100%

Grey balloons for daddy's birthday... next year will be black!

K-J's Easter dress

K-J and daddy looking at the goldfish

15 months old

K-J in destruction mode. She empties out Shelah's box of memory cards each day and scatters them all over the floor.

Who me?

Gentle with the cat!

Lino, AG and KJ

Jerry and Dorothy- Shelah's parents were out for a visit this month. It was a great time!

Nana's Birthday cake!

AG and Papa relaxing

At the King's tombs in Kampala

Inside the tomb. The kings are said not to die, but to "disappear into the forest" and the secret forest is behind this hut/tomb and it is forbidden for visitors to enter

Who is older? This is a 300+ year old tortoise that was brought here by one of the kings.

We have planted a small garden in our yard and are just now starting to enjoy eating from it!

Shelling peas from the garden!

Not sure if AG was helping or not

We are very happy to have found a Sudanese church here in Kampala. This church feels like home for us and we spent Easter Sunday with them.

Dorothy speaking at the Sudanese church

Easter Egg Hunt

We could have looked for the eggs again... but we ate them

I'm good

Too good.

Barakat helped find eggs too. In fact it was quite a competition. More competitive than we could have ever planned for!

KJ and Barakat

Kids of Kaberamaido

Church Leadership Conference

Stewardship Workshop

Bibles in the Kumam language

The Kitchen where the meals were prepared each day for the conference

A traditional fridge- water in a clay pot, surrounded with charcoal. It keeps the water very cold!

Paster holding his Kumam Bible

Widows receiving soccer ball. Irene is the lady on the left and is a widow raising 9 children, and the leader of the widows group. She is an amazing woman and was thrilled to get the soccer ball so the ladies can play when they meet together.

A-G in her "blue whale" swimming pool

We love the great swimming weather here in Kampala

KJ and AG

AG and KJ by Lake Victoria

AG with the guys swimming in the lake

Mom and Dad (Acker) with Shelah at the source of the Nile

The Nile River, which begins in Uganda and flows up through Sudan to Egypt

Mom and Dad at the Equator

Taking the Sudanese guys to an all-you-can-eat Mongolian BBQ was quite the experience!

They certainly got their money's worth!

Peter, our enthusiastic and hard-working field coordinator.

We truly don't know what we would do without Peter!!

Our favorite place to shop is the Super Supermarket. A-G has such a reputation there that she gets free candy every time we enter the store.

Or maybe the nearby Praise Supermarket

Boda-Bodas, or motorcycle taxis, are one of the main forms of transportation here.

If you come see us here, you will likely be subjected to playing volleyball every evening (or at least babysitting so we can play)!

Lino has worked hard to start this tradition of ending each day with a good game of volleyball.

We especially enjoyed playing last month when the other guys were on break from boarding school.

The guy's quarters behind our house where they stay when home from school

K-J, who turned one in January

At her birthday party

Happy 1st Birthday!!

Presents

Not too impressed with cake...she licked off all the icing and then threw the cupcake down.
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Below are pictures of the Greek resettlement Village in Eastern Uganda.

We recently visited Greek to meet with the local pastor there and to strengthen our relationship with the community. This is an area that has been through much hardship, where the people have been repeatedly displaced due to conflict. The people have been living in IDP camps for years, but are now returning to rebuild and start life over again. They have been provided with security now, so they are ready to resettle and build up their community once more.

Greek Resettlement Village in Eastern Uganda

Children in Greek

Houses under construction

Cute kids who need a school

Parents

Current school classroom

Church under construction

Pastor and family

Pastor receiving soccer ball donated by the VBS kids at Westwood Baptist Church

A church leader (the lady) with some children

It is hard work to live in a place like Greek.

This woman had to walk a long distance to collect this grass for thatching the roof of her house.

House after house being constructed as people are trying to resettle and begin life again.