Meet the Team: Lou Alice

"Meet the Team" allows you to get to know each trip member a little bit - every member will have their own post, so check back to learn more about the whole 2010 team!

Name: Lou Alice Rogers

Age: newly 40

Occupation: Librarian (and mom of 6!)

Favorite place you've traveled to? southern France and Italy

Hidden Talent? baking & putting colors together

If you could have a pen pal, who would it be? Julia Child

Guilty pleasure? Trying on beautiful shoes and enjoying a chocolate treat in the laundry room with the door locked--definitely a guilty pleasure!

What are you most anticipating/excited about traveling to Gulu? My greatest pleasure in traveling stateside or overseas is when I get to spend time with families in their homes and see how they live day to day. I am really excited about getting to visit with the members of our sister church in Gulu. In their homes, we will share meals together and speak encouragement to one another as well as determine the needs of the community and how Midtown Fellowship may help. I am intrigued by how other people/cultures do life. As an American, I think our lives are so separated from the mundane but exhausting tasks of daily survival--what to eat and where to sleep. We so easily forget who ultimately provides those things and we spend our time perseverating over minor inconveniences and superfluous wants. It will be a stretch to put down my cultural baggage and let the Lord teach me a bigger perspective than my little WonderBread life.
But truly my longing is to visit the Home of Love. I am most excited to love on the these children orphaned by AIDS and war and poverty but not abandoned by the Lord. That will not be a stretch. It is something that I have longed and hoped to do for many years. I cannot wait.