Wonderfully Crazy Things Happen on Mission Trips!!!

     While in the midst of a L O N G flight on Delta/KLM from Detroit to Amsterdam, the flight attendant began talking with me & another Team member, Jason.  She mentioned the best selling book "Apples of Gold",..followed by "Leaves of Silver".  Sylvia,-her name,-said she buys numerous copies of the two wonderful Inspirational coffee table books.  These books she would give to friends, colleagues, & family at Christmas.  I shared with her that over my 35 year career, I sold liteally millions of those two books,..and thanked her for helping to support my family!  It turns out she would buy them at Christian Corner, Pasadena,..& later at Lighthouse Christian Store(s), in Pasadena & West Covina, Ca!!, two of my very favorite accounts.    Wow, we marveled together at the smallness of God's creation,...& how we were encouraging each other!!

     Later, while waiting to board our second KLM flight from Amsterdam to Kigali, Rwanda, I had the pleasure of a long talk with a business man from Kenya, who now lives in Rwanda. Had an inciteful conversation regardibg Africa, in general, & Congo, DRC, in particular.  Both he & I have extensive experience with that.

     Still later, & on the approx. 9 hour flight from Amsterdam to Entebbe, Uganda,..I met a young Congolese lady, who now lives & works in France.  Our connection was that she was on her way home to Goma, Congo,-to bury her mother.  Goma is a part of Congo where I grew up, & I know it very well.  We wished each other God's blessings.

     Last, but not least, today at a bush country church in Uganda near Lake Victoria, I had the surprise to meet Suzanne.  She is quite familiar with Congolese refugees in Kampala, Uganda, abd her job is in the offices of the President of Uganda, -Museveni.

     Topping it all off was a crowd of 130 Ugandan orphans, with whom we worshipped & praised God together!!  What joy to be able to give these kids,-on behalf of you, our donors,-clothes, shoes, necklaces, toothpaste & toothbrush kits.

     Words cannot express the joy of African Missions.
Thank you so much for your prayers, & support..
Rogers(Banuamazi)