Throughout the last month, in Uganda, we have done many things, but none of the stuff really resonated with me. I’m not sure why but it just hasn’t. Maybe it’s because we changed ministry host during the first part of the month, maybe it has to do with my own relationship with God. Or maybe It’s probably because I just look for the big things to talk about and not the little things. The little things should mean a lot to me because that’s what I love about life.
I mean there’s plenty of things to talk about. Our ministry has looked a little weird at first then God moved us to a new ministry site, but I didn’t know how to talk about. I still don’t know how to tell people why or how we ended up moving. The only thing that comes to mind is, “Hey guys we moved hosts.” I guess sometimes that’s all you need.
We have scrapped walls, painted them, and scrapped walls again. We have experienced worship from youth age kids, where they preached. Wow!!! We even built a church, after moving to a new host. (Well we helped at least, the builders did most of the work) this brought me tons of joy to see a church getting built. The best thing is that church was going to be held in the building for many years to come. We have done door to door evangelism. I thought I was going to like this one. This can be uncomfortable, but it helps you grow. These are all big things, but why didn’t I think about writing about them.
Well this month has had its ups and down. It’s ins and outs, but why can’t I seem to write a blog. I mean I have tons of stuff to talk about. So I guess I’ll force myself to write. That will be the trick……………………………..…My mind was blank.
So I thought maybe I will just list some things we have done for the whole month. We will call it an update blog!!
We started the month off by helping in a small village 20 miles outside Kampala. We were doing a renovation to a building that used to be a school. We scraped, sanded, and painted the walls of the building. We did this for about a week. Our team experienced a lot of discomfort, and other things from the contact that we had and AIM decided it was best that we were moved to a different host. That host that we switched to was in a community in the city of Kampala. We partnered with them for the rest of this month.
The first day we got there we found out that the church was tearing down their old structure to build a new one. The beginning of the week we got to help them tear down the church completely down. Then by the end of the week we were purchasing materials to rebuild. Through the next couple days we would either help by either lifting poles for the walls. In Uganda they do not use 2X4’s they use poles made from ruff trees. It is very interesting.
Then other times we would walk through the community and do door to door evangelism. This became a popular activity that the church wanted us to do. We would brake up into groups of two to three and walk with someone that would translate for us. At times it was really hard to relate, but at others God gave us the words to say. I will say that I thought I would have liked going door to door but it defiantly stretched me. We also spoke a couple of times during the month in church, and lead bible studies. Throughout the whole month God showed me who He really is and how in control he is.
Some adventure things that we did, because why not go and experience their world if you are there. WE RAFTED THE NILE RIVER, and almost died (okay maybe it wasn’t that bad, but some of us got stuck under the raft and thought we were going to die. When I say some, I mean I was one of them.) I would still do it again. I had tons of fun.
We also found a market and got to experience first hand at how good we need to be a barding in other countries, because they will charge you extra. I was told to cut the price in half and walk away if they don’t give you a good price to walk away, because in all reality I don’t need the thing that I was buying.
The best part of all the adventures we got to do, was we went to the Equator in Uganda. While we were driving to the place I was looking out side and seen a line going across the road. Thats all it was, was a line. I thought to myself wow that wasn’t as cool as I thought it was going to be, but in all reality it was way awesome to say I stood on the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere. Never again will I get to do this again so in itself was one of the coolest things I have been able to do.
Our month was packed with a whole lot of things. We experienced life on the race. How people live. What people eat, and how they do life. This was a huge experience for me and I am so excited about what God is going to let me so and do in the upcoming months.
I want to say thank you all so much for praying for me, the team, and the squad, as we were in Uganda. Also thank you all for the words of encouragement and support you all have been giving me.
P.S. – Sorry it took so long to post this.
