This month is quite different from
last month in Kenya. Last month, we were living with our pastor’s family in a
small, tight-knit community and didn’t have much time to be together as a team,
away from everyone else. We ate every meal with the family and other neighbors
and visitors who stopped by. This month, we are renting our own house up in the
mountains about 20km from Kampala, Uganda overlooking Lake Victoria—cooking for
ourselves and living on our own. It has definitely been nice to have more time
to spend with just our team, working on relationships and investing in each
other. We generally wake up around 8am, make breakfast (and coffee!) and gather
together to start the morning off in worship, reading the Word, and prayer. It
has been an amazing time of fellowship to start off the day.
[view from our house]
We are working with Pastor Alex
Kirega at his church, Christ Miracle Center . We have about a 20 minute walk
down the mountain every morning from our house to the church. Then from there,
we have been walking around doing door-to-door evangelism in the community with
Pastor Alex and some other church members and pastors who help translate. We
generally have two or three people from our team that stay back at the house to
intercede for the rest as they go out into the community.
At the beginning of the month
during Debrief, I felt the Lord speaking to me about stripping away my pride.
As I prayed more about what I was being prideful about, I realized I take a lot
of pride in the fact that I have not been sick this entire trip (praise the
Lord!). I have never missed out on a single day of ministry this year. So I
felt the Lord calling me to take a few days of being off the front-lines of
ministry and stay home to pray and intercede for my teammates. It has been a
really cool thing learning more about intercession, and being able to share in
the victory of what my teammates witnessed during the day through their
ministry as I stay back to pray for them. It has definitely been a humbling
experience!
The first
four days of ministry here I stayed back to pray, so when it was my turn to go
out into the community to do ministry, I was a bit hesitant at first. I mostly
just observed my teammates as they talked and encouraged people. I came home
feeling somewhat discouraged because I felt like I hadn’t done much. Saturday,
my prayer request was that I would hear from the Lord and have boldness and
confidence in conversations with people I would meet.
Check out
my next blog to find out if God answered my prayers…
