Tag: Africa

How Can We?

Linny Saunders35 Comments

As I walked around and greeted boys and talked to them during the Wedding Feast I noticed something….some of the boys that had eaten were now going over to the plates that were being scraped and eating the piles of scrapings.   Scrapes of food from all these plates…. were being scraped off and put…

Safe

Linny Saunders30 Comments

Maybe you noticed in the pictures of the wedding feast that there  were some boys sleeping in the background?  Slumped over at their tables. No one mentioned it, so maybe no one noticed. But I had to write about it.  Do you see it now? So why would the boys, who had been excitedly looking…

The Wedding Feast

Linny Saunders33 Comments

Oh.my. When we got to the wedding we found that it was well underway!!  Yes, we were late, although we had come directly from dressing the boys {and we were not in our wedding attire ourselves – ha!}  But in Africa nothing starts on time….except for David and Abby’s wedding, I guess! We were sorely…

Undone

Linny Saunders51 Comments

Emma and I have just landed in the US.  One more flight and we will be ONLY a four hour drive home.  I just spoke to Dw.  He said that when he walked out of the bedroom today Elizabeth was sitting on the stairs waiting for him.  She looked at him and said most seriously,…

Before the Stories Begin…

Linny Saunders23 Comments

Before I begin the stories of Africa….I must tell a story…. About six weeks ago I received an email from a young bloggy friend named Piper…. Here’s what it said: Good morning from Texas, Linny! 🙂 As I’ve been spending some sweet time with my littles this morning and preparing to embark on our search for…

More…

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We have landed in Europe.  Emma and I and a few of the others had many tears as our plane journeyed toward Europe.  It is sooo painfully hard to leave.  I can’t even put it into words yet.   I am compelled to do more. I don’t know what that exactly looks like.   But…

One Tiny Treasure

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One tiny treasure. 7 months old. Desperately sick. Pneumonia.   One tiny treasure. I pray over her as I hold her… Suddenly… The meanest orphanage caregiver {that I have ever seen} comes in to give her her medicine.  I jump up, “Please will you let me give her her medicine?” She snarls, nods and thrusts…

Sunday in Uganda

Linny Saunders15 Comments

Thank you for praying for the wedding feast.  Each night the team has “debrief”, talking about the day and the emotions of it.  Last night the overwhelming thought was how emotions were all over the place.  The slums, the clothes, the need, the helplessness…really, hardly bearable.   There is much to say, but honestly, we…