What do these have in common? Medical Clinic, Rabbits and Orphans

What We've Been Up To! 2013 has been an incredible year already. Not only have we hosted two different teams, we've been building our SMI Outreach Team here at Field of Dreams. We currently have 19 Ugandan staff working at Field of Dreams that are helping with all aspects of the ministry.. This doesn't include all of the team working out at Hope Children's Home and Alpha Omega school! Building a Team Because we are expanding our outreach into the villages and city and our team is growing by leaps and bounds, we built more team/staff housing. There are now 10 large bedrooms, 6 bathing rooms, kitchen and dining room. Here are some of the photos of those buildings. Picture of our amazing staff are coming soon. (they are all over the base and out in the village, so we will have to round them up for a picture) Staff Housing  Agricultural Projects  We have also been working steadily on our agricultural project. Our AG team has cleared away some of the Field of Dreams property and has planted over 1700 tomato plants, cabbages and green peppers. SMI Garden  We are also at the beginning stages of our rabbit project. Rabbits are a great source of meat. They also reproduce quickly and are a great development project which will help our neighbors to produce their own source of food and income. We are working towards providing more of the food for our Say No to Hunger programs, village outreach, Pastor's monthly gatherings as well as Hope Children's Home. You can stay updated on our progress atwww.facebook.com/showmercy. Even if you don't have a facebook account, you can still view the updates on that site. It is the easiest place for us to post pictures to from Uganda. (The internet speed is like a turtle. Thankfully it has been pretty consistent - except when the power is out).      Health Center The Show Mercy Health Center is also making progress. We have hired a clinical officer, Faith, and she has been working hard to get the clinic supplies in order as well as working with the government to get the clinic registered in the right ways. We had thought the clinic would be open sooner than it is, but we have come to realize our timing is not always HIS timing. A health inspector is coming to check out the clinic today, so hopefully we will be opening our doors in the coming weeks. (seems we've been saying that a lot lately! Join us in prayer so we can truly see it happen). Front of the Health Center Water Tap (for village), Health Center and FOD Entrance Health Center Lab Examining Room  Faith - SMI Clinical Officer Elderly Outreach The SMI outreach team has begun to visit and help the elderly widows around the villages surrounding Field of Dreams. These men and women are so precious. Some have neighbors who live nearby to help care for them, but others have absolutely no one. There aren't any elderly care facilities around us, so to be in a position to help these people is such a blessing and honor. We will be sending out an update on this outreach as well. We know your hearts will be touched! Thanks for making it possible for our team to go out and be love to these elderly neighbors. Team went to the well to get water for the elderly. This is quite a laborious task. Quite often the elderly go without water because of the weight of the water cans and the distance to the well. Our neighbor Regina. She is blind and lame (for now) Regina's sister, Brenda. Lori Salley's Dad, Glenn, helped to install a water catch system for the sisters. Say No to Hunger We just launched another Say No To Hunger program in a village right by Field of Dreams. Last Saturday was the first gathering of these 34 orphans. The majority of these children are muslim, so it is a joy to get to spend time with them, pray together and share stories from the Bible. All three of our SN2H programs have a very special friend visiting this month. His name is Eddie the Elephant. The children had fun as we tried to make the sound of an elephant (You should try it. It isn't as easy as you think. What you hear in your head isn't always the sound that comes out of your mouth. My elephant sounded more like a horse the first time around. At least it made the kids laugh) We will share more about Eddie and this amazing program in another post. Here are a few of the children who are new to our program and who are in need of your sponsorship. New Kids at our Say No to Hunger Program The Fabulous Meal! (look at that pineapple - it is so so sweet!) These kids were HUNGRY Sponsor a Child Today       Click the child's image to read more. New Interns Our new interns have been arriving this month. We are excited to have them join us for 3 months. They will be helping us to do our weekly outreaches. SMI is currently focused on these areas of outreach for March: village schools, weekly prison ministry, hospital and medical clinic, Say No to Hunger, monthly youth gathering, elderly ministry, monthly pastor gatherings as well as our projects at the Field of Dreams. Awaken to Love 2013 Don't forget to sign up for Awaken to Love 2013. Your life will be radically transformed.    Click the image to find out more! We want to say THANK YOU for all of your generous support and for being a voice for Show Mercy and the people we are working with. We are seeing amazing transformation take place and it's because YOU are partnering with us Mobilize, Inspire and Empower - that's the mission and together we are making it possible. More updates soon.