Traveling to Ugandan Villages

While in Uganda, we’ll be ministering in several small village areas and it would be impossible, I’m told by the mission leader, to list them all. We will fly into the Entebbe Airport in Uganda from Amsterdam, and stay in an area called Kajjansi. A few of the places we will go include: Kalangaalo-Kyamagemule, Karamoja, and possibly Ntenjeru. Laura didn't go to Ntenjeru on her last trip but has been there before. Kefa Sempangi, author of A Distant Grief, is involved in ministry there and has things we wants us to help with.....there could be other places too.

Kampala is the only semi-developed city in Uganda so I began wondering how we would travel between villages. The U.S. Department of State has this to say about travel in Uganda: “Most inter-city transportation in Uganda is by small van or large bus. Many drivers of these vehicles have little training and some are reckless. Small vans and large buses are often poorly maintained, travel at high speeds, and are the principal vehicles involved in the many deadly single and multi-vehicle accidents along Ugandan roads. Large trucks on the highways are often overloaded, with inadequately secured cargo and poor braking systems.”

Pray that the many roads we travel lead us to something so wonderful that we don’t even remember the troubles associated with getting to our destination.