School supplies were purchased from the donation given by

Invisible

Children’s Club

from a high school in Pembroke Pines, Florida.Everyone at Abba House gathered aroundto get their supplies for school.The children began a new school year inFebruary, so the supplies were just in time.Their school has three school terms in oneyear. The first runs from February throughApril, the second from June to August, andthe third from September through earlyDecember.

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Barbara Decker,who has 21years of experi-ence on the mis-sion field in Ecuador, Mexico, El Salva-dor, Guatemala, Venezuela, D.R.Congo, and Israel, has joined withHouse of Friends to serve the Lord.In June of 2009, she joined one of our Native American outreach teams goingto Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.Barbara will be serving with us in the Native American outreach program,Israel, Africa and wherever her assignment may take her.Barbara has served as an agriculturemissionary. A large portion of her career has been in Venezuela with the

older children in ABANSA Children’s

Homes, training them to be responsiblethrough caring for animals and raisingcrops. She has also been an elementaryteacher of a Christian-based rural schoolthere.

We are very blessed to have Barbara join us in our work. She is a very com-mitted Christian who believes that it is

more important “to live a sermon than to preach one.”

When not on the field, Barbara hasher home base in Alma, Missouri.Please join us in welcoming BarbaraDecker to House of Friends.

By AmyRose Tomlinson(On the mission field in Ugandain 2009 & raising funds in 2010)

Imagine red beans and a mixtureof corn flour and water called

“posho”—

both heaped upon a blue plastic plate and carried ever so carefully down the red dirt path by Desire, a 5-year old orphanliving at Abba House in Entebbe,Uganda, East Africa.This sight was the beginning of one of the most beautiful experi-ences I have had to date. Desire,along with the other 38 orphans living at Abba House, live for that meal of posho and beans. Once that blue plastic plate is intheir hands, it is only a matter of a few minutes before it is picked clean, as their eager hands shovel the mixture into their hungry mouths, heaping handfuls at a time.On this particular day, Desire asked me out to lunch. . .

.“AmyRosie, I bring for you a plate? You will eat with me.You first come.”

I was under the impression that Desire would be bringing memy own plate. This was not the case. What he meant was thatthis oh-so-precious plate of goodness that he looked forward toevery day would be shared.In my six months at Abba House, I have seen many starvingchildren grab at candy, pineapple, cookies, bottled water, and

any other edible thing we may have brought them. I don’t

mean just half-

heartedly reach for…these kids come in like a

mob, reaching, pushing, shoving, with the most pleading eyesand hands you have ever seen.But today

—today was different. Today it was Desire’s turnto give. And I will tell you I don’t know that I’ve ever seen

such a look of pride on a face as I did that day as he sat next tome on the cool cement porch of the