I took a trip quite a while ago to Uganda and I finally got around to posting the pictures.  Sorry it took so long.

Unfortunately I did not have my camera out at all the best times like when we were 3 men on a motorcycle (which did not seem odd at the time).  I also did not get any pictures in Kampala, but it is a very neat city, especially if you are not in a hurry.  The whole downtown is so impacted with motorcycle and minivan share taxis.

Most of the pictures are of the house I stayed in near Entebbe and the AIM Air office there.

I finished off my first week at work last week and it was an interesting time.  I have not been to “work” for over 2 months and it felt nice to sit at a computer and hammer out some things. IT is completely different now.  Not only am I in Africa where many things work differently, but I am working for a missions organization where there is no profit motive.  That changes everything around.  It is going to take me a while to figure it all out, not technically, but spiritually.

We finished off the week by going back up to Harvesters in Karuri where I was priviledged to preach.  I guess I am getting more accustomed to being here, I did not even have a watch or a clock and no one commented on how short it was (anything under 75 minutes is considered a short message, especially  outside Nairobi). I had been preparing a message, but Saturday night it did not seem to be the right one.  So I started with a different one sort of feeling lost, but after worship and hearing from the visitors to the church I knew God had given me the right one.

After church we were able to have lunch with the translator and his wife and the wife of another Pastor who was preaching at Umoja.  It was a special time because the house we ate in was partly paid for by the sale of our house in La Mesa over a year ago.

Mungu ni mwema, wakati wote. (God is good all the time)

I was perusing my access logs on my webserver and I came across this gem. Someone searched Google for “how does broccoli reproduce?” In itself and odd question. Even more interestingly, they were directed to my blog.

[Edit] I should also note, the request came from Dubai, UAE.

There is always a lot of talk about how each generation is different than the last. “Back in my day…” “In the old Corps…” and the like. I do, however, believe that my generation (and I’m probably close to the leading edge of it) is growing up in a very different environment regarding information.

The internet, talk radio, cable news, everyone writes books, the internet (yes, I meant it twice), are all newer forms of information that are bombarding us every day. No one is exempt from these influences, but we are all influenced differently depending on our age. I grew up at a time when all this information was hitting the scene right as I was formulating the majority of my world view. People younger than myself are going to be hit with it even more.

What is the end result? I do not know. However, I do believe that it is having a polarizing affect on people. Back in the day, the more limited amount of information was usually closer to the mainstream (where ever that might be on a particular issue). Because so much information is now availble there is no moderating factor. Things can be as whacked out as they like. On top of this, there is no arbiter of information. It is often difficult to assign value to different sources of information. So some completely far out idea seems as valuable as one that is closer to the real truth.

Just as every generation faces new challenges, this one is now.

I got my first two comments on my blog today… my fancy blog software sent me an email to notify me.

I was so excited… only to find out they were advertisements. Good thing I have to moderate comments with links in them.

*sigh*