Spring Break Part 1: Pacific Academy Outreach

A highlight for our family each year is hosting the outreach team from Pacific Academy School over spring break. 

The team was able to serve alongside many of the ministries in Kibaale; going with our primary classes on outreach in the community, leading devotions, arranging crafts and a sports day, helping out with the Awana program, building a mud hut for one of our students, painting projects in the nursery school, and a highlight for everyone is always visiting their sponsor children at home!  

Home visits are not only special because you get to meet your student and see where they live, but meet their families as well, and it is such an honour for these families in Kibaale to have their sponsor at their home too! 

Kibaale Community School does outreach every March as well,  a different class goes out every day to a family home in the community, to help them dig, plant crops, fix houses and give out food and clothing, it was great having the students from both schools working together all week! 

Our nursery school is in much need of a renovation, and the team got a great start on painting the furniture in a couple of the classrooms, the kids are loving their new bright classes! 

Sports Day for the primary school. 

Every week the staff from the Kibaale Community Medical Clinic go out into the village to immunize babies, some of the team was able to come along to help weigh babies. 

Crafts! 

Awana programs run every afternoon in Kibaale, the last half hour is sports and always a favourite time to join in on the fun! 

We were able to join a Kibaale class on outreach to mud a new home for one of the students at the school, they worked together very well and did a great job! 

Thank you Pacific Academy School for your continued support to Kibaale!! 

Spring Break Outreach

Every year spring break is one of our favourite times of year, we get to host the Pacific Academy School Outreach team and they are always an amazing group of kids and leaders. 

This year was especially fun for Joel since the boys that were on the team were in Grade 11 like him and his friend who is here, Malachi. The boys were able to jump right in and join the team during classroom devotions, home visits, sports days and school outreach trips. Also one of the leaders was our friend Lizabee who we have lived in Uganda with for several years, it's always a treat to be reunited with great friends here! 

All of our kids were very helpful; joining the team to collect water, take them on hikes, and helped out with sports day stations, they loved this group and wanted to spend as much time with them as they could. 

Getting to deliver gifts from home for sponsored students is always really special.  

Building a mud hut for a student in our school does not get old! We usually get to help out with the building of a few homes each year and our kids love each and every one! 

The team worked really hard, even with a delay in the morning because of rain, to get completed by the end of the day. 

The sun came out after we started but it wasn't too hot of a day which was great. 

Avin's friend from home, Mirah, was also able to join us in Kibaale for a few days with her Dad, Cameron; it was great having them with us! 

We had to walk quite a distance to fetch water to make the mud, but everyone did it with smiles on their faces. 

Our own students in Kibaale go on Outreach themselves each term and one day the team was able to join them as they visited a needy family in the community. They brought them food and clothes, dug in her garden and took the very long walk to water to with their jerry cans to stock up. 

Our friend Cameron showing them their family photo. 

This hike to water is long and steep, and this family only has small children, so it is quite a challenge for them everyday. It was quite a beautiful spot though that we had never been to before!