A Special Gift

Yup! It’s a trombone!!

The packing peanuts provided some great entertainment too… Our Emma was babysitting Abi for friends of ours and she loved the peanuts too…

This blogging thing is just really nifty (okay, so that word totally dates me, doesn’t it?). But seriously, through someone who found this blog the sweetest gift arrived today via UPS – for the ORPHANS in Uganda! How cool is that?
A kind-hearted adoptive mom who lives in Arizona has been reading the blog and saw that Dw and Emmy had taken brass instruments to the orphan boys at African Hearts. It was just thre months ago that D & E carried 3 trumpets and one trombone with them. The young orphan boys whooped and hollered at these treasures hand carried from America just for them!
Anyway, upon reading that story this mom wrote and asked if we would want her husband’s old trombone that was sitting in his mom’s attic in Missouri??!!? Did we want it?? You bet!!! She even wondered if it would be good enough? Oh my gracious!
While in Africa, Dw was so emotional about the few instruments they had taken with them. He said that the instruments the boys have are all beat up and rickety. The used trumpets and trombone that Dw and Emma had taken to them were like Mercedes Benz compared to their junk yard relics!
So this kind woman’s mom-in-law packed up this beautiful used trombone and shipped it UPS to us. It arrived today and we are tickled to pieces!! We were doing our own whooping and hollering!! An extra special thank you to these awesome folks for being so kind hearted! and demonstrating God’s love to these precious orphans!
How gracious of God to bring a trombone from an attic in Missouri to a home in SW Colorado to be hand carried to Kampala, Uganda. Once there, it will be used daily by a young boy (who once lived on the streets of Kampala). The pastors of African Hearts, after earning these young street boys trust, invite each one to come to their group home where they are learning just how much God loves them, the trade of playing an instrument and how to live in a safe, caring “family” off the streets!! And that’s what we call – nifty! Yippee Jesus!

2 thoughts on “A Special Gift

  1. That Grandma in Missouri is my Mom. My brother learned to play that trombone when he was 12 years old. I remember hearing him practice over the years. I am amazed at how God works……we never would’ve even thought that the trombone he learned to play back in 1980 would have another purpose in it’s “life” by the very hand of God. Amazing!
    Tammy- North Dakota

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