Preliminaries

Recently the MCC country representatives for Uganda, Ron and Sally Jo Milne, took a trip to Kotido and made some arrangements for my arrival. They posted a number of pictures on their blog and gave me some information about my host family as well as the bishop I will be serving with.

I will be living with Romano and Maria and their children. Several of their kids will be in boarding school in the capital city, Kampala, but there will also be some younger ones still at home. Needless to say, I'm rather excited to meet them all.

Ron and Sally also met with the bishop for the North Karamoja Diocese of the Church of Uganda, a denomination related to Anglican/Episcopal church. In the MCC service outline I received my assignment is Social Work, Chaplaincy and Church Education related. I'm looking forward to seeing what this may look like and learning more about church work.