Pastor Bill and Linda have started Children’s homes. The term orphanage is negative, and the homes really do “adopt” the children and create a home for them…Seya is a village just outside Lugazi where the Hope House is located. To arrive, you drive through sugar cane fields that are flanked with tea plantations. It is a lush beautiful drive through the maze…

Our arrival is greeted with 50 exicted children running and singing as we pull up. What a welcome committee. It made me feel really special while all I was there to do was to make the children know they are special.

We do a short tour and then take out soccer balls. The children love to play soccer (football). With the assistance of the children, we pumped up the soccer balls and let them play! Kent and I jumpped right in and got involved… Some of the children were a bit shy, so we’d “play” one on one until they got close enough to receive a hug… Once the hugs were dispensed watch out, they all came over… It did not matter that hugs were not an official part of the game of soccer… Well recieved and “scored” many points. And the soccer balls were worn out by the end of the first week!!!