I don’t think I told you guys about our ministry in Busia, but we
mostly did door to door evangelism.
I initially had a hard time getting into the mindset of doing door to door,
wam-bam-thank you-mam type ministry with most likely no follow up or
discipleship, except telling them about the church, but I think that’s the
mindset we have in the states (and a very good one and biblical one) is a
relational type ministry. My friend
Tyler reminded me that Jesus very often spoke to large groups and didn’t hang
around to make sure they were ok and didn’t come back to answer all their
questions. So I learned again that
there is power in the name alone of Jesus and there is power in his story of
redemption and if that is all I get to share with someone then that is enough
and the Holy Spirit is not beyond moving and that my trust can be in him to
complete whatever needs to be.
Most of the people we met said they were christians so we ended up
praying with them and encouraging them as best we could. Several other teams ran into some
situations where people were christians but a family member was possessed or
there was oppression from other spirits.
I think in all of those situations the Holy Spirit was victorious in
either bringing or beginning to bring those people away from those things.
We did a few hospital visits as well and prayed over people
with some pretty serious illnesses.
Hospitals here are not anywhere close to what they are in the
states. The first day we were
there the power was out (we probably only had power in Busia maybe 20% of the
time) and test couldn’t be given and they couldn’t diagnose people correctly or
at all. I saw my first dead body
there. I saw my second dead body
at a funeral of a 16 year old girl who fell at school and suffered from
internal bleeding, something possibly preventable. It was a hard place to go,
but you could tell that people there were hopeful and when we prayed with them
they were more than willing and open to hearing about Jesus and the healing
power that he can offer. I learned
that in praying for healing, it is first and foremost about healing of the soul
if they aren’t believers and then the physical healing; and it is all for the
glory of God, not healing for the sake of healing.
So Im in Lira Uganda now. We had a few days in between and stopped in Jinja Uganda
which is close to where Lake Victoria feeds the Nile. We camped at a New Zealand owned outdoor four wheeler
safari, bunji jumping, Nile rafting and other craziness having oasis type
place. Some people bunji
jumped and most of us rafted the nile for a day trip, something like 32
kilometers. 4 class 5 rapids, it
was allot of fun.
We’re in Lira now working with Victory Outreach
Ministries. This place is kinda
nuts. They have their hands in allot of different ministries and Im excited to
be apart of all the different things God is doing here in Lira and really in
Uganda as a whole through this ministry. So far we have attended an HIV/AIDS
meeting and got to meet and worship with them, we have done some office type
work for compassion international and will work with the kids on Saturday, we
have gone to the two schools they support to speak and play with the younger
kids. There is allot going on here and Im excited about being apart of it.
I hope all you guys are doing well and again thank you for you prayers and other support.
