Dinner with the African Children's Choir!

Had fun with the kids from the African Children's Choir last night. My family brought baked ziti and our friends Ellie and Eileen (see Mesta's and Ellie's blog on my links) brought chicken. The kids live in Mirembe House. This is a home our church bought for them on 6 acres of land.

I am in love with all of these children and pray for them to grow into happy healthy adults. And we pray that they can grow to be excellent leaders in Uganda....maybe one day they will live to see the world change so that they will not have to watch as more children are orphaned etc.

We also had dinner with the kids on Friday night at my friend's house. Nine of the children flew back to Uganda on Saturday and 9 more arrived very late last night. In May they will all go back to Uganda and a new choir will come. We will greatly miss them.

These kids have spent the year touring, performing with Sandi Patti, Josh Groban, Bono etc. They have stayed at some amazing hotels as well as in sleeping bags in many church basements. But they are orphans whose main goal is to make the world aware of the plight of the orphans in Africa. Uganda has strict adoption laws so the intent is not to try to adopt them but rather encourage support for their program and any programs in Africa that can help the destitute children... Find out more at www.africanchildrenschoir.com

My 2 year old is totally confused. Everytime she sees the children from the ACC she thinks they are her siblings and wants to know why we don't put them in the car to bring home. She always says "my kids,my kids". Last night the baby played African drums during devotions and worship time with the children. She also played with their new dolls and was walking around with SUSAN's green flip flops....it was cute.

These children really have such great opportunities with the Music For Life program in Uganda. But only so many children can be served. There is way too much work to do.

Please keep the program and staff in your prayers especially Elsa (who we hope to find a husband for), Sara, Craig, bev and gary, ray, julia, suzanne, Harriet, Robert and Joshua to name a few.....

And happy new year...