Africa Bound

Sixteen days and counting to one of the greatest adventures of my life. I am on my way to Uganda to work at an orphanage through Watoto village. This has been a dream of mine for years but became a goal in my life about four years ago when the Watoto children’s choir visited my church. I had a group of four young girls and their auntie stay at my house for two nights where they shared their passion for God with me and my two "quasi" little sisters Jess and Megs. These young girls spent the days with us watching Lion King, playing board games, drawing pictures and most of all singing and dancing around the house trying to teach us their rhythm. It was then that the need to visit their village began to burn in my heart and here I am days away from this dream.

So "Jaclyn on a mission" is the title of this blog I must emphasis that the mission is totally in the hands of God I do not have any hard fast plans to change Africa but rather to allow the people that I work with and the children that I love to change me. My goals while I am there is to love and to serve. I will be working in the baby village holding and caring for babies. To think that I will have the opportunity to be a part of the lives of these children totally blows my mind but again here I am with an open heart and "ready to serve!"