A chance to serve.

This past Monday, Mary and I were able to go with the other families that we're living with to serve some kids who are really in need.

Sarah, one of the moms in our house, told us about a US-based organization called Sixty Feet that ministers in Uganda. One of their ministries is at some government-run children's remand centers (prisons, basically) at which street children and those who have committed crimes are housed. A fundraiser done to support Sixty Feet in the States is called The Cupcake Kids in which kids across the country sell cupcakes and the money goes to Sixty Feet. OK, so Sarah's idea was, since we are in Uganda, to actually bring cupcakes to the kids in these centers around the same time that children in the US were selling cupcakes. (got it?)

So, the moms in our house began making about 400 cupcakes--YES, 400 cupcakes!! There was a lot of improvisation in making, frosting and transporting those bad boys but we did it.

(Notice that they are square. We couldn't find round cupcake tins!)

(Different icings flavored with peanut butter, jello mix, and crystal light packets!)

(Pretty good final product. They actually tasted great too!)

So, last Monday, we visited one of the centers that was about an hour out of Kampala. We brought the cupcakes and some kool-aid-type drink. Another family (Dinsmores) went with the families in our house to the center. They blogged about the day and Sixty Feet reposted their account of that day. Follow the link to read about that day.