My first week of work:I love the Children of Grace staff in Jinja!

My first full week of working here has been incredible.  We have felt so very welcomed by the staff at COG.  I already feel like I am a part of their family.  The other day Vicky gave Risa and I Ugandan last names!  A couple of days this week I have gone into town to have lunch with the staff.  The great part about being here and working here is that I have the privilege to really spend time getting to know the staff each individually.  I also now have the ability to physically go with them and see everything that they do out in the field.  I am continually so impressed by them and how God uses them daily to care for the children who are sponsored.  Whether it is taking a sick child to St. Francis, checking up on a guardian, meeting with students at a school to hear their complaints about the school, making sure kids have new shoes, teaching phonics at a school, or meeting with women in the empowerment program, they are constantly out serving the children and have their needs as their number one priority.  I amazed at how they remember all of the intimate details of every single kid.  I can ask them about a girl that I know from camp and they instantly can tell me about how that child is doing.