As it turns out my predictions about this month are becoming reality. We are being very fluid with how things happen. After a few days of staying at our hostel. We got our first mission’s host which was a church. We were there for 3 days and then we went to another one for 2 days and then others. Focusing on my prayer life in the previous month is definitely being useful here. In one aspect we are dependent on it to find opportunities to serve. We have had the opportunity to bring the light of gospel to bleak areas this week.
I will never forget going through a village in Entebbe where we stayed for our first ministry site. The community looked a little dirty and the people don’t have very much. However, after looking around and being shown where we would live for the next 3 days. Our host showed us this very small building next door to our rooms, and to our amazement, inside the building was a recording studio with very nice equipment! We were told that we would write a song and record it in the studio for a presentation at church. We spent most of one day, in or around this studio, perfecting our song and it was finally recorded. It is hard to believe that this was our specific ministry for that one particular day. I was supposed to preach at this church for an hour but they must have had a guest pastor come in and I never got to preach. I would however preach at our next ministry.
The second site that we went to was a medical ministry geared towards seniors called Reach One Touch One Ministries (ROTOM). We would go out and spend some time with elderly people that live in remote villages and live in very simplistic and poor conditions. It was sobering and thought provoking to see how happy these people were to spend time with strangers like us. Many of them are Muslim as well but the ministry helps anyone regardless of the person’s beliefs and offers the message of Jesus along with their care. Just being with them spending some time in their company brought the light of heaven to them even though the language barrier prevents us from communicating. These people have nearly nothing and no one to care for them and most of the time they have to take care of grandchildren. However, they seem to have contentment and their joy to see people who visit them is a huge uplift for them. The second day I got to preach the word of God to a group of these seniors and my message was about Jesus entering into our sufferings and how he will swallow up death forever and they were greatly touched by it
