Adventures with Christ

In a miracle from God, through the love of family, friends and the power of prayer, Kindri Van Puffelen traveled in September, 2019, back to Uganda along with Judy and Jere Van Puffelen.  Here are highlights of the place, the people, the doctors and the…

Hey all!!  Thank you for joining in the journey back to Jinja.  Everyday I am thankful for all those God has invited into this crazy thing of camp.  I pray that you are finding yourselves falling more and more in love with the person of…

Camp is over and we are tired!!!  But we still have a lot going on. Saturday evening we met up with a friend who has been living here for about 6 years.  Her name is Ashley.  She is Canadian and has been trying to adopt…

Hey all!!  Sorry it has been a couple days.  We've been busy!  Friday was our last full day of camp and it was packed!!!  Unfortunately we had a bit of a shower in the morning.  Erin said that she thought there were moths stuck in…

Wasuze otia, Good morning.  Lwakuna, Thursday morning and we havewoken to a major rainstorm.  We have been fortunate the last coupledays to have rain overnight and then it clears before we start ourday.  Today is a different story.  We may have to adjust our schedulea…

Lwakusatu, it's wednesday!  We are having a great day!!  Hope you are too!!  We started our day off with breakfast, bread and bananas with tea.  Then we headed to worship.  This morning we are continuing our discussion of what an Abundant Life looks like.  We…

Wow!!  I guess they call it rainy season for a reason.  We got some serious rain overnight!!  Usually rain makes me sleep better, but this was so much and so hard that it actually woke me up.  I remembered that our tie dye shirts were…

Jambo!  Hello!  We are having a great time in Wairaka at camp.  Monday morning the kids arrived in shifts from the 3 schools that we are hosting.  And of course as it always goes, we have more kids arrive than were expected, but God was…

Hey all!!  Stacey and I got a very good night's sleep.  I think Stacey slept for almost 12 hours.  We spent the morning hanging around the guesthouse until we headed into town to prep for camp.  The afternoon was busy getting all our last minute…

Jambo!!  Hello all!!  I hope you are all well.  Is it really almost February?!?!  The last 2 weeks have literally flown by.  They have been so good, very productive and way busier than I thought they would be.  And I was worried I would be…

Pringles...who knew that was all the girls needed to be really REALLY happy!!  We stopped for water and I grabbed a couple tins of pringles and you would have thought I hung the moon 🙂 The rest of the drive was restful for the girls!!…

Let the play time begin!!!  Camp is over and we are sad, but we have some fun plans for the next couple days.  We arrived back at the Providence Monday afternoon after a stop off at the COG office.  Deana was there with their team. …

Jambo!!  Hey!  How are you all??  We have had a great week of camp!!  I am feeling better and better each day.  Thank you for your prayers.  Everyone else has been feeling well.  Allan really has been a super star stepping in as I have…

Wasuze otya!!  It's friday!!  Crazy!  We're starting out rough today.  The government water supply has stopped for some unknown reason.  3rd world probs!!  The girls were all frustrated because they couldn't wash.  We were able to find a tank with water to bring for food…

Wow we have had a busy week. I'm sorry that I haven't been better at keeping in contact. I find myself very tired and it's busier trying to run camp for two groups. We are having a great time and God is doing awesome things!!So…

Yay!!  The kids arrive today!!  Unfortunately I woke up feeling evenworse today.  I am super bummed because I know I won't have the energyI need to do camp the way I usually do.  Allan asked me yesterday if Iwouldn't put him on a team so…

Happy New Year!!!  I hope everyone had a safe and joyous New Year!! I left you on tuesday morning as we were preparing to come to camp.  It is pouring rain this morning.  We awoke to the rolling thunder.  Not a bad way to wake.…

Wasuze otya!  Good morning!  I hope you are all having a good New Year's Eve!!  We actually forgot that it was the holiday!  So yesterday was a good day!  It started with PANCAKES!!!  So good! And a bunch of fruit!  I had a bunch of…

Wow! We have had a full first 2 days! I wish I could say the journeyhere was uneventful, but unfortunately I cannot. We flew from SFO toPortland. We had a 5+ hour layover in Portland. When we went to ourgate to get our boarding passes,…

So we have 2 days and a list of people and places to see.  We had aplan for the day, but after having some trouble getting ahold ofShallom this morning, we ended up getting to relax some.  We decidedto head out to HELP School, who…