Uganda Update

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Sunday evenings.  Good times for reflection.

For our Uganda E-team meeting on Saturday, Jim Winn (the Singles pastor who will be leading our trip alongside Isaac Hydoski) reminded us of Christian missionary William Carey’s words,  

“Attempt great things for God- expect great things from God!”
William Carey

These words stir my heart as I consider what a privilege it will be to go across the world as a representative of God’s kingdom.  To serve, lay down my time and physical comforts, labor together with fellow believers, pray in anticipation for the trip and during the trip, and watch God answer our prayers…in these things I expect great things from God.  And I am confident that He will provide me and every one of my team-members with the strength to carry out these great things for Him, which will display His glory and awesome love for every tribe, tongue and nation–in this case, the people of Uganda, Africa. 

Though I do not yet know what all these “great things” will be, we did receive more details about how we are going to be serving the orphans and church while in Uganda.

–facilitating small group discussions during the 4 day Christian conference that Moses Nkwasibwe (you’ll be hearing a lot about him in the coming months!)

–prison and community outreach

–radio station broadcast

–caring for the orphans

–interacting with local villagers

These activities will be quite an adventure, especially with communication occuring through verbal interpretation of English into the Runyakole Rukiga language!

Our team spent much of our meeting going over basic administrative details, brainstorming about possible fundraisers, and praying for each other in anticipation of the next 5 months.  Wow.  5 months.  Time is going to FLY.More details to come soon.  In the meantime, check out the link to my cousins’ blog in Kenya (under Travel).  They have already posted some gorgeous shots of exotic flowers and pictures of Lily and Silas Koning (my second-cousins) engaging with the locals.