Bee Ministry

 I'm still getting used to this idea. Bees as ministry. But this week bees are opening up more doors to impact the lives of our brothers and sisters in Christ here in Adjumani. Over the last year and a half, Eli has been experimenting with bee keeping, harvesting their honey, and making products like lotion with the beeswax. He's discovered that a profit can truly be made and this is an idea he has to help support pastors' families in ministry - a supplemental income to help pay for their kids' education, food, etc.

Eli's moved around to different places in our district where people are raising bees and have a honey business and as he learns more, he wants to share that with others. So this week it's all culminating in a training going on, taught by a team of 3 beekeepers from South Carolina. The American beekeepers are learning from the Ugandan beekeepers and vice versa. We're excited to see where God takes this!

Visiting other bee projects in the area to see how they are raising bees in different ways.

Bee classes taking place

Night time visit to Eli's hives and after 2 hours they managed to catch the queen bee!

Practical, hands on learning

We'll post more later to share how this branch of ministry is going.

Catching up on the last few months

Our family Easter Pic 2024

We were so thrilled to have Evan and Joshua home for most of April! It was Evan's last time at home in Adjumani because after he graduates from high school in Kenya, we fly straight from Kenya to the States, so that meant we tried to do some special family things while the boys were home. They also pitched in with different ministry and work things going on. Pictured above, Evan gave many of his hours over break to help assemble 6 brand new bicycles for ministry purposes.

Meanwhile Joshua earned many mechanic hours in order to finally get his bike up and running again.

A wedding that happened in the mix of things

Evan's girlfriend came to visit for a week to see where Evan lives.

We took an epic family safari trip - Evan and Josh on motorcycles!

On April 17th, Carson turned 6 years old.

A bee hive under construction

More to come on bees, but the above picture shows a big project Eli worked on in the month of April, building 50 bee hives! He trained and oversaw about 5 youth from our church in building and assembling bee hives for sale. And this week a training is going on in which pastors and lay leaders are learning how to keep  bees as a money maker.

 A team of three from our home church in SC came to do ministry in Adjumani area for 2 weeks. It's always amazing to share our life here with others and we thank God for all the teaching and relationships that happened during those days.