1. This is the I Choose You office where I
spent most of my time working with Sarah.

2. Pastor Morris is the senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Mbale. It is directly across from the office. This is where I attended
church every Sunday

3. Children from Covenant Primary
School playing during recess.

4. One of the main roads Sarah and I
walked down on the way back home
after a day at the office.

8. The end of our walk. We are now at the gate leading into Pastor
Morris and Mama Aidah’s house.

9. Home while I was in Mbale
This is the door to
my room.

10. Inside the main part
of the house. The
dinning room and
the living room.

11. Overtaken
by butterflies

12. Sarah helping serve
lunch to the
students.

13. The children who
are part of the I
Choose You
Ministry all crowed
into the office to
get new shoes.

14. In the afternoon, after school was let out, people just seemed
to come by and hang out in the school/church yard.

15. This building (only part is shown in the picture) held classrooms and the
headmaster’s office. I would often see a teacher teaching class with the
students sitting in the grass under the trees just behind the playground.
There is a track (you can see a portion of in the picture) that loops around
the lower part of the school yard. It was often used for foot races.

16. Pastors college
The church classrooms
Office building
Classroom for the
nursery class
(Kindergarten)

17. There are three classrooms in this green building.
It is right next to the bible college. P1, P2, and P3
have their classrooms here.

18. The lunch line and a friendly
dragon fly who landed on the
window to the I Choose You
office.

19. Scovia and
Marvin coloring.

21. Marvin showing off his work

22. My friend
Marvin posing
for the camera.

23. Pictures from around
the house

28. The colored pieces
Sarah braided into
my hair one
afternoon.

29. This little guy came with his mom who earlier in the morning
was helping sort items for the monthly distribution. We were
blowing bubbles together on the step to the office.

30. Marvin’s brother
Nicholas.

31. Marvin and
Nicholas where
taking turns
taking pictures
with my camera
while I was
washing a few of
my clothes.

33. This is Ben. He
is Nicholas and
Marvin’s older
brother.

34. Making paper beads with the ladies
from the I Choose You Sewing Club

36. Some of the ladies were
sitting outside in the shade
of the house. The big white
bags are filled with pieces
of posters, calendars, or
other kinds of paper.

37. Left: A bowl of beads that were just
rolled.
Below: one to 10 pieces of paper are
laid together and rolled tightly around
a needle or pin then the end is glued
down to secure the bead.

38. Corie is
learning how
to make a
paper bead.

39. Lots of beads
hanging up to dry
after being dipped
in varnish

40. Lydia’s brother,
Paul, was
helping make
beads and then
later got out his
guitar.

41. Flower is Lydia
and Paul’s
younger sister.

42. The wall behind the beads is part of Pastor
Morris’s house. Lydia and her family live
right next door which and their home is
where the ladies make the jewelry.

43. These two pictures are of
the house where Lydia and
her family live.

44. Lydia and I outside
the church that the
wedding was held at.

45. Corie, Tristan, and Edward
playing a card game.

46. Taylor is working on
painting the back of the
church.

47. Edward, Tristan, and Corie washing out brushes and rollers. The building
directly behind them has the kitchen for the school (the window on the left;
there is a door around the side), the I Choose You office (closed door), and
the office for the Bible College which has it’s door open.