Uganda Missions Trip 2023 - Itinerary - Journey with Us in Prayer
Uganda Itinerary - Journey with Us in Prayer
29th June -Thursday: Leave from Skidmore’s Home @ 5:00am. Drive to O’Hare airport.
Planning for Mark Skidmore and Justin Lippe to transport us to O’Hare and Back.
30th June - Friday: Arrive in Uganda @ 10:20pm travel to Jinja to miss morning traffic jams.
(Uganda is 7 hours ahead of Michigan time)
1st July - Saturday: Awake by 9:00am / Breakfast 10:00am / Team Meet 10:45am to go to Welcome Home. Tour the home, then play with children in all 3 departments. / 11:00am Lunch / 1:00pm at Zabuli's / Back to Welcome Home 3:00pm / Divide into teams to work with cognitive skills or reading with the children / 6.30pm Dinner - Space Café? / 8:00pm Team Debrief and Prayer.
2nd July - Sunday: 7am Breakfast / 8:15am Team Meet / 8:30am Leave for Lwambogo Village to lead worship - lead a song accompanied by Maria, teach Sunday School for 2 classes (small children and the older ones) / 1:00pm Ugandan Lunch - Park Villa Cafe / 3:30pm - 6:00pm Work with children at Welcome Home - divide into teams for 3 departments (tumbling on the trampoline for some, balance bar, ball games, songs together Maria with her violin, and one on one time with the small babies)/ 6.30pm Dinner at Zabuli / 8:00pm Team Meet.
3rd July - Monday: 7:00am Breakfast / Team Time 8:15am / Team Meet / 8:30am Welcome Home - 3 teams rotate in spending time with laundry, cooks and social workers / 10:30am Spend 1 on 1 time with the children reading to them praying for them / 12:30pm Help with children's lunches / 1:30 Eat with the staff & Join a bible study with them - Maria play violin / 3:00pm Children wake up and work with different aspects of child development / 5:30pm Worship Time with all the bigger children / 6:30pm Dinner at Zabuli / 8:00pm Team Meet.
4th July - Tuesday: 7:00am Breakfast / Team Time 8:15am / Team Meet / 8:30am Welcome Home - organize to take the older children on a rare outing at 9:00am to play at the Hive Cafe and Playground to have their morning snack / 11:00am back to Welcome Home / 11:15am Help take the big babies for a drive back by 12:00pm / 12:30pm Lunch at Zabuli / 2pm Visit Rippon Village / 3:00pm Welcome Home – Work, play & read with the children / 6:00pm Dinner at Zabuli / 8:00pm Team Meet.
5th July - Wednesday: 8:00am Breakfast / Team Time 9:15am / Team Meet for Prayer and Pack Lunch for the village / 9:30am Welcome Home - meet with Betty & Francis (the medical social workers) / 10:00am Depart for Lwambogo Medical Clinic to work with the waiting patients and minister to them / Lunch 12:30pm / Divide into 2 teams to go with Francis & Betty on follow up with patients in the village praying with them and sharing a scripture or a song. See the work being done there. See the wells that have saved children's lives, the chickens raised for eggs for the nutritionally challenged children and the garden project for more nutrition / 4:00pm Join the adult reading class and be able to have them practice their English with members of the team. / 6:00pm Head home / 7:00pm Dinner at Zabuli / Team Meet at 8:30pm.
6th July - Thursday: 3rd July Monday: 7:00am Breakfast / Team Time 8:15am / Team Meet / 8:30am Welcome Home - 3 teams meet with the 3 teachers and shadow and work with them for their mornings assisting / 12:30pm Help with children's lunches / 1:30pm Eat with the staff and minister to them with familiar worship for half an hour / 3:00pm Children wake up and work with different aspects of child development / 5:30pm Worship Time with all the bigger children / 6:30pm Dinner / 8:00pm Team Meet.
7th July - Friday: 3rd July Monday: 7:00am breakfast / Team Time 8:15am / Team Meet / 8:30am Welcome Home - 2 people join Nurse Beatrice for her morning, 3 with small babies, and 3 with big baby dept / 10:30am Spend 1 on 1 time with the big children reading to them praying for them / 12:00pm Lunch & then shopping downtown / 3:00pm Children wake up and work with different aspects of child development / 5:30pm Worship Time with all the bigger children / 6:30pm Dinner at Yellow Chili /8:00pm Team Meet.
8th July - Saturday: 8am Breakfast / Team Time 9:15am / Team Meet / 9:30am – 10:30am Work with Lilian sorting through all the educational materials she does not know how to use / 10:30am Demonstrate how to use them with Lillian, the moms and the children. Leave a deposit of skill with Lillian and the moms / 1:30pm Lunch at Zabuli's / Back to Welcome Home at 2:30pm to blow up balloons and beach balls for a party / 3:30pm Treats for the children / Short Worship Time from the children and the volunteer team teach (2 very simple worship songs to the children), the mums will do two songs then play together with balls and balloons/ 6:30pm Dinner at Moti Mahall / 8:00pm Team Meet.
9th July - Sunday 7am Breakfast / 8:15am Team Meet / 8:30am Leave for Kamigo Village to lead worship - lead a song accompanied by Maria, teach Sunday School for 2 classes small children and the older ones / 1:00pm Ugandan Lunch - Park Villa or Moti / 3:30pm – 6:00pm Work with children - divide into teams for 3 departments at Welcome Home (tumbling on the trampoline for some, balance bar, ball games, songs together Maria with her violin, and one on one time with the small babies) / 6.30pm Dinner at Zabuli / 8:00pm Team Meet.
10th July - Monday: 8am Breakfast / Team Time 9:15am / Team Meet / 9:30am Welcome Home - rotate through all the different departments as a farewell and last chance to minister the children / 12:00pm Lunch at Space Cafe / 1:45pm Go to the big market with our cook and shopper to learn where buy our supplies / 3:00pm Pick up passports from the safe then go home to pack / 5:30pm Dinner at Zabuli / 7:00pm Team Meet / 9:00pm to Bed.
11th July - Tuesday: Up 3:30am / Depart for Safari at 4:00am / Drive to Murchison Falls, Game Drive and Boat Ride.
12th July - Wednesday: Early morning Game Drive, Visit Top of Falls, back to Entebbe.
13th July - Thursday: Local activity in Entebbe area, 3:00pm PCR COVID tests for those who need it, 6:00pm to the airport so driver can get back to Jinja while it is daylight.
14th July – Friday: Arrive O’Hare 1:05pm - July 14
Drive back to Skidmore’s Home.
He goes before us in all things.
Kate