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The EMPOWER program will be centred in Abongonyeke a small village approx. 120Km east of Lira home to Patrick and his family.
On the Wednesday evening before we left we agreed to help Susan harvest her millet, not fully realising what we were doing as none of us have ever done this before but as we were in a state of exhilaration and relief that the program had concluded so successfully, it shouldn’t be that difficult so we promised to meet at Susan’s place about 200m up the track at around 7am before breakfast.
As the sun goes down on our final evening and the people start streaming into the camp we are not prepared for what is about to transpire. Certainly we are prepared for the music, singing and dancing as we have experienced this every night since arriving, but not know to us was the songs composed for our farewell and the heart rendering speeches to follow. Sam who was the interpreter for Rod and Helen sang his song, Robert my interpreter sang his song after he used the ball to identify each person in the mission team (an exercise used on day one of the EMPOWER program for people to get to know each other). The young people sang their song, the older women sang their farewell song, Pastor Peter prayed for our safe return, Patrick spoke words about what the EMPOWER program has meant for the Angetta region, not a dry eye in the house. It was very difficult not to be moved by their songs and speeches and the mission team were left in no doubt that their lives, and the whole community had been changed in just 10 days, so rewarding.