in September 2008 I asked you to pray for me as I worked with the daughter of a missionary couple in Karamoja, NE Uganda.

The little girls parents have spent months trying to carry out speech therapy under my guidance.  I saw them in May just before my furlough and they were very discouraged.  Despite lots of hard work, Megan had made little progress.

Without the assistance of other specialists or other Speech therapists whom I could consult, I began to wonder if I had even made the correct diagnosis. Should I have taken a totally different approach with therapy?

I left them to continue with therapy during my furlough and promised to see them on my return.  Last week when I met with them again it was a wonderful moment.  Megan has suddenly made significant progress and although she still has a long way to go we are on the right road.  This family nearly went home to the USA one year ago to seek treatment and thanked me for enabling them to continue with their evangelism and church planting ministry in one of the most difficult regions of Uganda.

I don’t feel I did very much but I am thankful God was able to use my skills to help one little girl, which in turn enabled her parents to continue their work.  Only God knows the fruit that will result from their ministry too.

There are certain night time sounds that are familiar in Uganda… music down the road at the CD rental store, crickets chirping, voices and even the occasional banging of a stick as Jeremiah, our night guard kills a snake.  Last week the dogs started barking and soon after Jeremiah called  for us to come and see what the dogs had killed.

It was a pretty big bush rat! Now these things are a lot larger than your common pet rat back home.  We knew they were around but this is the first one that has dared to enter the Newnham compound that we are aware of.  Thanks to Spinner and Hope he did not survive too long either.

A good days work