Updates from Uganda: Time for School

I have been receiving small text messages here and there from Becca and the rest of the crew as to what they are doing and how it is going over in Uganda. For the past week they have been traveling across Uganda and taking the kids back to school. From what they said it has been an extreme treat to have the three amigos [as i have dubbed them] arrive just in time to spend a few precious days with. Unlike some of the children that they will be in school with these children are orphans. Their family is each other and to have an adult come and visit them and give them love means the world to them.

Please as you go through this week keep these children in your prayers as well as Becca, Jason, and Josh as they are sharing the love of God through their actions and learning so much in the process!

follow their journey at both of these sites:

Becca's Blog

Embrace Uganda's Blog

xoxo hsw

TFBP: Reports from Uganda

I spoke with Becca today. The three are doing great and they were able to pass out our first batch of friendship bracelets. This past

Tuesday they were visiting New Hope Christian Academy in Apach, Uganda and felt that it was the perfect time to spend time with the kids and pass out friendship bracelets.

They were visiting the kids at their school and had them get into a big circle and got the opportunity to speak with every individual child and tie a friendship bracelet on their wrist. The three said the kids faces lit up as they received their individual bracelet.

Please keep Becca, Jason, Josh, and all of our brothers and sister over in Uganda in your prayers.

xoxo hsw

GCM: The Friendship Bracelet Project

GCM - The Friendship Bracelet Project:

After traveling to Uganda we decided that we needed to do something. How do you tangibly give to children that have nothing...where do you start. How do you involve people that cannot give monetarily and cannot travel over...what do you do. We were faced with this question as well as the ringing remembrance that these children shared everything...even the clothes on their back. Having support from the organization Go Change Move we have been able to come up with a way. We have asked all of our friends, their friends, and the pattern has continued to take a few minutes and make a friendship bracelet. This is a grass roots effort to support a globally heart breaking issue - orphans and bringing them hope.

Why friendship bracelet?
This is something that we can bring in bulk, that can go around their wrist as our missionaries spread love and hope to these children. The idea is simple sit with a child and get to know them. My mind is brought back to the trip to Africa that our friend asked them what they wanted more than anything, their response was for someone to know their name. The goal is for us to remember names and faces and to give them something to remember us from. By giving them a small token, a friendship bracelet, they will always be able to remember that there is someone out there that loves me and that remembers me and my name.

What has happened from this project?
Through Go Change Move we were given the support through volunteers to get a lot of the bracelets made, we also received bracelets from around the world from Singapore and Australia to the US and Canada. We have three missionaries over in Uganda that took these bracelets with them. Check the facebook page for other info!

How can you get involved?
Education = Compassion = Action
Become educated on this project as well as the other projects from Go Change Move as well as the organizations they support. Grow compassion for your brothers and sisters that are suffering and then take action.

Throw a friendship bracelet party and have you and your friends make a handful and send them to us.

Talk about it amongst your scope of people and see what you can do to get involved.

[Josh, Becca, and Jason in Uganda for the summer]

To Follow Becca's Trip please check out her blog

xoxohsw

Becca is off to Uganda!

One of our dearest friends is off to Uganda for the Summer. She will be splitting her time between two locations and while there spread the love of God to those she encounters. We will be posting updates, pictures, and stories we hear from her.

While she is there she will be helping with our
Go Change Move: the friendship bracelet project.


For more information check out our facebook page:


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-Change-Move-The-Friendship-Bracelet-Project/121475471264510

How to get involved: grab some string and some friends and have a bracelet party. This is a grass roots effort and it starts and ends with you! If you have questions post them on the page and well answer them!

Follow her journey as she Goes, Changes, and Moves across the globe.

http://www.withopenhands.blogspot.com

xoxo hsw

Laughing Dinosaur to the rescue!

Hopefully you can relate to some of the things I mentioned I know at some point in your life you have been here, there, up, down, and Lord knows pulled back and forth. The phenomenal thing is we are all different but share one thing in common.  We want to change the world.

Every time I say that I feel like I should be standing with my hands on my hips with a radical red cape flowing perfectly behind me, and the most impeccable theme song blasting in the back ground.  Although my job allows me to dress up on Wacky Wednesdays (you get to dress up like holiday characters, super heroes, or if you’re lucky mythical beasts) I have recently come to realize that every time I wake up to my NeedToBreathe- shine on alarm and I wash down a granola bar with a swig of orange juice I am getting ready to take on the day as a super hero. By a simple smile, genuine laugh, hand shake, hug you are changing and saving lives.  People need it, we all need it, and you need it. Who are your super heros?

 It’s safe to say people lead by example and follow those who are brave enough to lead…are you? Or do you wake up and turn on auto-pilot and go through each numbing day with fake encounters?  In order to be a super hero you have got to face the fact that not every day is going to be perfect.   We have to realize that not everything is going to make since and be fair, but when faced with differences we rise above and understand that we are changing the world through the relationships we build and the moments we share with those around us.  Once you have realized that ther is only one other question you have to worry about.

What is your Super Hero name?
 Mine… Laughing Dinosaur as per a Super Hero Name generator.

These are my Super Heros (My Kids, My Ugandan Brothers and Sisters, My Staff, and My Family and Friends

xoxo hsw