I hesitate to call it a promotion. Maybe its just an internship, but the situation here in Uganda is allowing me to travel from Kampala to Gulu. Generally on the World Race, team members serve in one location for the month while squad leaders travel to visit different teams. Somehow the circumstances have given me an opportunity to travel to Gulu to visit the two teams, Haven and Shekinah. Shekinah’s leader, Nathan, needed to get from Kampala to Gulu and he could not travel by himself, so I will travel with him.
I am debating how much authority I should express in my pseudo squad leader role. I am probably throwing away any authority I have by writing this blog. I have big shoes to fill, let me introduce you to our 3 squad leaders. Nathan Salley might only weigh 120 lbs but what he lacks in size he makes up for it the intangibles (love, service, humor, and a squaky voice when he yells). Leading a world race squad is nothing compared to running an Emergency Room which is what Aly Beeler did in her former life. And Sydney Sample, while I’m pretty sure she is running AIM from her home in Arkansas, she still manages to write on all our facebook walls, pretty incredible.
I am excited about serving here in Gulu. I get to see my auburn buddy, Matt Delaney, and I can also talk football with my nemesis, Mississippi State grad/Alabama fan Alex Cole (he really is a good guy, he does have weird visions though). I’m not too sure about what ministry looks like in Gulu. I know we are working with a rehabilitation center who helps educate/stabalize children who have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. The work of the rehabilitation center is incredible, I’m just not too sure where I fit in.
Thank you Aly for this opportunity. I’ll try not to be too great of a squad leader/warm body to travel with Nathan) to take your job. Please don’t hold this blog against me.
