“Goodbye Mzungu!
Goodbye Mzungu!! Goodbye
Mzungu!!!”
These are the words
we would hear from the mouths of dancing Ugandan toddlers as we walked to the
school that we taught at during the first half of this month. It’s about a fifteen minute walk, down dirt
roads lined with homes and businesses, from the guesthouse we were staying
at. The little ones could spot us coming
from hundreds of yards away and would not stop chanting, swaying from side to
side or waving their little hands at us until we were hundreds of yards on the
other side of their location.
Our ministry, once at the school, was to teach the students
at Champions Christian Primary School.
The teachers literally handed the classes over to the Mzungus, leaving
us in a class with anywhere from 10-30 kids aged four to fifteen and a five
minute discussion on what we were expected to teach: indirect and direct
sentences, velocity and vectors, old worship styles, time and key signatures or
simple addition and subtraction of negative numbers and multiplication tables.
Other forms of ministry included evangelism, leading home
cell groups and preaching at church or prayer services. I was honored to “preach” at a prayer service
several nights ago. My message was on
being freed from slavery only to be led into the wilderness and still having
the faith and trust to hang on to the promises from Father, even when you don’t
feel Him or see the promises ahead. I
think I will blog about this topic someday soon.
Our team was paired with Team WOW for this part of the month
and arrived on June 6th. Due
to my role in logistics, I stayed in Nairobi for a couple of days after Debrief
and did not arrive in Uganda until the 8th. This past Thursday, both teams left this
ministry and we paired with separate contacts to finish out the last half of
the month. GTL is with a family a few
miles from the school where we will again engage in house-to-house & school
visits while attending nightly prayer and weekly church services.
