Idudi Mission Trip

Idudi is a village in east Uganda close to the border of Kenya. I had the priviledge of joining a team from Youth For Christ being invited by my close colegue Mathias Mulumba to join him in reaching out to children we found on the local fields. Idudi was my first experience of real village life in Uganda, sleeping in a small brick room that wasn’t full complete allowing the rats to come in and out at the leisure.


Now my first encountered of the true Africa experience occurred as I was on the way to checking out a local field with Mathias and the local yfc worker. As we walked out I started feeling some bites on my legs, slapping my legs thinking it was only a Mosquito there was mor an more. I roled up my jeans to find no less than 30 Arms ants biting me. I started running like you do the a toilet hut at the far end of the field throing my clothes of Mathias laughing away as he picked the ants out of my jeans and I picked them off my leg. They were so strong they srew blood in seconds. After clearing up the incident I walked back out to a cheer from the youth’s playing football on the field, it must have been funny for them.

The next day we went out to a local field and had a great time playing with around 200 children. We had no sports equipment but found some sticks and rocks an played a game called awana (basically a massive realy race). As the rain came we all ran and cramed into a small classroom children sitting on each others laps staring and listening to us telling them the good news. I was amazing seeing children that had nothing just being so happy and full of smiles. We played some fun chanting and singing games as the rest of the team came to pick me and Mathias up. I left humbled and blessed to have spent some time with such amazing children.