Uganda
Well
I have gotten lazy on the blogs again, so I am just going to give a quick
update on what our month in Uganda looked like.
We
lived in a place called Kishanje, which is in the most beautiful, hilly place I
have ever seen in my life. It is 2 hours from electricity/Internet (so we are
going to pretend like that is why I didn’t post any blogs this month). At the
top of the hill is a ministry call Juna Amargara, and they run a primary
school, secondary school, orphanage, clinic, and vocational school. Our main
ministry this month was supposed to be to disciple some of the secondary
students, but they happened to be on break while we were there, so as usual our
ministry changed a little bit.
We
ended up doing a wide variety of things. We moved massive piles of bricks to
help with construction of the school. We played games and songs with some of
the primary school students who were around. We did door-to-door ministry and
prayed with sick people at the hospital. The guys were able to get some pretty
steady discipleship going, and the 6 of us girls all did a Bible study with one
girl who was left there.
The
last day of ministry, we drove 9 hours to another place called Fort Portal, and
attended/spoke at a conference. Who would have thought that when we left 8
months ago we would be key speakers at a conference. Which the conference was a
very humbling experience for me. I was the last person from our group to speak,
and I was giving a testimony on fear. But, as it turns out, either the
translator didn’t understand me, or she translated it wrong, because the entire
room full of people laughed the entire time I was talking…. And I wasn’t saying
anything funny. What was really funny about it was I was talking about Fear of
People, and then I get laughed at by about 200 Africans. But, it ended ok, and
I just have to trust that maybe the people who spoke English in the room needed
to hear what I was saying. (I think the translator might have translated my
fear of what people think as being literally afraid of people, which might
explain all the laughter).
I
know this blog doesn’t give much detail from the month, but this was one of my
favorite months on the race. I’m excited to go to Europe, but I’m not really
ready to leave Africa yet. Hopefully God will send me back sometime.
