At 10 pm on Saturday night, May 31, plastic jerry cans in someone's small house were set ablaze in the middle of the crowded island of Makusa, near the international airport in Entebbe, Uganda. Nearly every home was burnt to the ground by morning, while the islanders fled into the water with their children and what little belongings they could carry as the fled the blaze. Mercifully, no one was injured or killed, even though many children would have already been asleep at the outbreak.
   Sunday morning, as we prepared our boat to make the 2 hour trip to Bukiina, where we would lead the Sunday service, we heard the news of the still smoldering island, and decided to make a detour before heading off to church. Not wanting to hurry off to our religious meeting while people were suffering like the priest or the Pharisee in the story of the good Samaritan, we wanted to see if there was anything we could do to help these needy people who had lost everything overnight....