Up For Sale!

I just put a book of photos up for sale on Blurb.com to try and make a bit of money for Refuge and Hope! So it's sort of like a donation, but as a bonus you get a nifty little coffee table book! Check it out by clicking on the image below:

A Thousand Words

By Jennifer Wilmore

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Photos

Just posted a few more photos from Uganda to my album on Facebook.  Check it out here (even if you aren't a social networking robot like the rest of us!): 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2074215&id=41804530&l=121b85b52f

Here I am!

So it's been a while since I've posted personal photos.  It's because sometimes it feels vain to post photos of yourself, and it may or may not have something to do with the fact that I'm a bit of a negligent blogger.  So I figured I'd try to make up for it here and post a few.  I'm thinking that after I leave Uganda I may try to make an online photo album of highlights during my time here, so this might just serve as a preview to that!

This is one of the first photos from my time here and also one of my favorites.  A friend took it in February during a visit to a school in western Uganda.

Learning to make a "rolex" - one of my favorite Ugandan dishes.  It's basically a Spanish omelet rolled into a chapatti (flat bread), and it's delightful.  I'm currently applying to graduate schools, but if the whole school thing doesn't work out, I could totally get filthy rich by introducing these things to every college campus in the world.

My friend took this photo one morning when we walked out to the rock quarry near our house to watch the sunrise - a favorite past time.

This is one of the widows that we're doing projects with in Kaberamaido.  I just went on my last trip out to Kaberamaido, which was really sad for me, because Kaberamaido was the first place I went after coming to Uganda and where I've spent most of my time out of the city.  And those women are just great.

This is Suellen, my wonderful roommate for my first 6 months in Uganda.  She's gone back to Brazil now to finish school, and I miss her!  I don't even have a photo with my new roommate, Jaclyn, who is also wonderful.  This must be put right.

Here I am with my small group during a youth conference we held in Kaberamaido a little while ago.  We played a name game with motions - thus, the (somewhat) dramatic poses.  

Birthday!  Here I am with Anna-Grace, Jade and Shelah's 3-year-old daughter, blowing out candles at my birthday party at their house in July.

Friends!  In September while Jade and Shelah were fundraising in the US I skipped over to Ethiopia and hung out with my best friends, Kristen (left) and Jamie (middle)!  Kristen serves with Peace Corps there, and Jamie came out to travel around with us.  It was a perfect trip.

Oh my.  You gotta love the awkward stand-beside-each-other-but-don't-touch-or-look-like-you're-friends pose.  Here I am with some pastors in Kaberamaido a couple weeks ago during my last trip there.

Uganda!

A Couple Three Things

1] As promised, I've been working on getting photos with captions up online and I wanted to pass along the first round: photos from Kapchorwa!  And for my social networking hipsters, you may also want to catch up on my facebook album.

2] Some of you blog aficionados may not feel that you're getting enough from this blog.  For those of you who just can't get enough and want to read even more about what's been going on here, see the latest entries on our Refuge and Hope blog!

3] I'm not certain if I have mentioned this before, but we are developing a project in Goma, DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) to support ten former child soldiers and ten girls affected by war in going to school, getting counseling, etc.  We had plans to go to DRC at the end of this month, but we're now holding off for a while.  The violence and lawlessness there is really very terrible - particularly the high number of rapes - as this news article shows.  Please be in prayer for this situation and for the selection of these twenty children, which should move forward in the next month.

Back in the Pearl

Well, I'm back from an amazing week in Ethiopia, and rather than trying to explain it in words here on the blog, I thought I'd take you through a little journey of photos.  I've uploaded some pictures along with captions to my Picasa site.  Check it out here!

I hope to do the same with photos from my recent trip out to Kaberamaido and Kapchorwa the week before I left for Ethiopia, so be on the lookout!  In other news, we're gearing up for a small group coming from the U.S. in two weeks to do sports camp, VBS activities and distribute mosquito nets in both Kaberamaido and Greek, and there's lots to do to get prepared!  Please pray for us as we finalize all the details and for the three students (plus my mom!) coming to minister here for three and a half weeks.