Aggie's Arts Video

Check out this excellent video of our Aggie's Arts ministry made by The Met Church (Houston, TX). This captures how God inspired Aggie's to start Aggie's Arts, what the ladies' lives were like before, and how God has helped them so much through it.

2009 was an amazing year for Aggie's Arts. On top of regular monthly purchases from our 17 ladies, we took several short-term mission teams coming from the U.S. to visit them and they bought even more. On top of THAT, just before Christmas, The Met Church placed a HUGE order of 1750 Christmas tree ornaments (which they'd never made before)! The ladies did a great job and enjoyed their Christmas bonuses. Awesome! Will be cool to see what God has in store for 2010!


Aggies Arts from The MET Church on Vimeo.

Aggie's Dad

Aggie & Mum & Dad (they are separated - Aggie's Mum lives in Kampala)

We had a bit of a shock over the weekend. Aggie's Dad (who lives in the Karamoja region of far NE Uganda) was shot in the chest by a thief. For a while, we were not sure how critical his condition was, & were planning on having him airlifted to Kampala where there are better hospitals, but MIRACULOUSLY it seems that the bullet went through his shoulder & didn't hit his lungs or heart or anything "important". He has already been in & out of surgery in an "ok" hospital up there. He is stable & they are just waiting for things to clear in his shoulder before they can see if the bullet hit any bones.

The thief that shot him was trying to steal his livestock - very common up in the Karamoja region. There are armed cattle raiders/warriors who come in from other areas to raid villages/towns. The problem isn't nearly as bad as it was say 5-10 years ago, but it's still not good. Karamoja is also one of the poorest regions of Uganda. It's extremely dry, and in the past several years has been a focus of relief groups like the World Food Program, World Vision, etc. Aggie's father is very poor too, so Aggie has also gone up there to take him some money for his hospital bills.

UPDATE: the bullet didn't hit any bones either! Still can't fathom this. He has now fully recovered. Wow.

Almost Live from Uganda (Episode 11)

We recently had the joy of baptizing 60 people in Lake Victoria. These included Manna Ministry food recipients, students, security guards, and ex-prisoners that the IMFC team has been ministering to over the past few months. Enjoy!

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Where's Waldo?

Almost Live from Uganda (Episode 10)

Meet Mayi - one of our Manna Ministry food recipients living in the urban slum area of Katanga. A video with a lot of background noise, but that's half the point - for you to see how stressful it is to live like this.

2yrs in Uganda! - Photo of the Month

On October the 14th, 2007, Simon returned to Uganda (above photo) - 7 months after his prior visit. So today marks 2 continuous yrs in Uganda! There's some unexplained aura around us in this photo. Could it be the photographer's finger partially over the lens, or it could be luuuuuurve? &:-)}

Safari!

A couple of weeks ago Aggie and I traveled to Nairobi, Kenya for a weekend to organize some immigration stuff. We never knew we'd get to go on a safari while we were there!! Lake Nakuru National Park was A-mazing!! Experience some of it with us in this video.

(P.S. This trip was also Aggie's first time in a plane - wish I'd got some footage of that! *grin*)

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Eggs from our chickens!

Almost Live from Uganda (Episode 9)

Visit our Ugandan church with us!
(The 9th in a series of videos made for our church back in the U.S.)
For more about why we are here in Uganda, what we are doing, and how you can help us & the people of Uganda, go to www.ugandajourney.org

By the way - we are now on FaceBook - search under "Simon Paech"

Photo of the Month

This was really cool - the cow was bending down to let the chickens peck inside it's ear, & was closing it's eyes in enjoyment!