I can’t believe month 8 is already almost over! What a month too! We have been going non-stop, but it makes for some awesome stories of what God is doing here in Uganda.
Where to start… This month, a lot of our ministry has been to the Anglican Church. So we have been traveling from church to church, visiting homes and parishes and encouraging the believers of the area. Many times we have no idea what is expected of us, so we just wait to get to the ministry for the day and they let us know right then and there what they would like. Many times, we show up and they want a sermon and at least one testimony. Many times, we just let the Spirit lead and we preach whatever is on our hearts at the time. It’s been a major growing experience for all of us since public speaking is not really something any of us enjoy. The other day, I prepared to speak in front of a church, which I didn’t think would be a large group and it turned out to be over 300 people. Talk about scary! But the Lord got me through it. I am noticing that the more we step out and just walk in faith and trust the Spirit to lead, the less fear we have. It’s starting to just be natural, which is so weird!
So, the other day our contact told us that we would be going to meet some people with Compassion International. For those who don’t know what that is, they are an organization that helps get children sponsored who have no family income. Many of the children are orphans and mostly from Africa. Our team split up for the day. Half went to one site and the other half (Emily and myself) went to another site. We went with the idea that we were just going to meet the Compassion staff and hang out with them. We got there and had the usual second breakfast with tea and were told we would have fellowship after, still thinking it would be with the staff. Next thing we know, they are walking us into a church full of kids, they walk us straight the front and sit us on stage and hand us the program for the day. The program states that we will be leading the first teaching session to the kids, having lunch and then leading the second session. The first session would be starting the next 5 minutes and they wanted at least an hour of teaching or whatever else we had up our sleeve. At this point, I just laughed. We hadn’t prepared anything, but I guess lack of preparation leaves room for the Lord because He still moved. We had an amazing day with the kids, got to share the love of Christ with them, and were blessed in return.
And many of the days this month have been the same way. We show up without a clue of what is about to happen and God just shows up!
