I learned more about my ignorance than anything else. Spending a week (29 Jan - 6 Feb) with a team of engineers can have that result. Yet equally clear was God's gracious and abundant provision of quality people to assist Hope Alive! in the next step of developing schools, a church, and a community center on our 350 acres of land in northern Uganda.

Engineering Ministries International (eMi) assembled a team of 13 engineers and architects, six of whom paid their way from the U.S. and volunteered their skills and expertise! Their long days in the African bush, at the drawing table or computer, or in a make-shift laboratory produced results beyond any expectation I'd had. They also underscored both how little I knew about the details of development on the scale we're envisioning -- and how vast and yet precise God's provision is.