Settled In

I've been here about a week and a half and feel like im pretty settled in and getting used to things. One of the ministries I have been getting involved in deals with street kids.  Every day around 4:00 or 5:00 me and Bobby Kolb who is also part of our team down here head over to the feilds where we are met by around 15 boys between the ages of 8 and 15.  They come and we go through a training session with them and warm-ups and from there we then divided them up into two teams so they can begin to play.  The name of the team is Freedom Boys and we have entered them into a tournament that was supposed to start today or tomorrow but now is looking like it will start Saturday.  The tournament is very unorganized so it is tough to know if it will even take place at all but we are hopeful. 
Another tournament is taking place now, it started last week I was invited to play by Erasmus. Erasmus is 20 and is good friends with Bobby and thats how i got to know him.  I have been playing with him and some of his friends at night and tomorrow we will have our game in the tournament so im excited to be a part of that. 
Later this week, on Friday i think, i will be going with Josh Shaarda, another member of our team here to a village to hear and watch him do some of his teaching.  He travels all around villages in Uganda and trains and teaches pastors of local churches.  This Friday he will be doing some childrens ministry and training so I am looking forward to that experience.
Some specific prayer requests we as a team have include praying for the street kids. They are really looked down upon by the rest of society. Most of them are boys and many of them have been thrown out by their mom or their dad because they cant take care of them.  We have developed a relationship with a man named Paius who has started a transitional home called Elim and he takes in these boys and a few girls while they try to locate their families. Its a tough situation because he doesnt have the resources to take in all these kids but feels to bad to say no to some while saying yes to others.  In one case he was telling us that they found the mother of one of the boys there but she told him if they brought him back to her today, they could come back for the boys funeral tomorrow.  These children literally have no where to go so we are asking for prayer for them and we are working to get the local church to recognize that these children are out there and need help and so also pray that the church would take steps in getting involved in helping these kids.