Our team arrived in Rukungiri, Uganda about a week and a half ago. It has been awesome. We moved from tents to beds, from fetching water from a stream 20 minutes away to having showers and running water, and from being 3 and a half hours away from a small city to 3 minutes from a large town. Our ministry here is varied. Each morning we go to an all boys school to lead a devotion. Then we go to a clinic across town to pray for people there and help in any way we can. After that some of our team go teach at an elementary school, and others go back to the boys school to hang out and play sports. The best thing about Uganda, though, has been God's direction in me.
God has really been working through me with prayer here. One morning we had nothing to do at the clinic, so we decided to go into town and see where God directed us. The first people I prayer for were 3 boys who were not in school for some reason or another. One wanted prayer for "urges" which here often means addiction, one wanted a job, and the last straight up asked to accept Christ. It was amazing that God directed me straight to this boy. There was nothing I said to get him to accept Christ, but God had already prepared him and allowed me to reap the harvest. The same thing happened again that day with a boy at the school. I asked if I could pray for him and he said he wanted to change, he wanted to be saved. Praise the Lord. It has been clear to me that God has been directing me in prayer here. It seems every person I pray for, a bank guard, a worker at the internet café, and even our guide, have needed prayer and God brought me to them at the right time. So I have really been hearing God's voice here and it has been very encouraging. Now, since I have been learning about the power of prayer, I ask that you pray for me. Pray for God to give me strength and for his will to be done in my life.
A little more about prayer. On Wednesday nights we do a fellowship thing at the boys school. At the last one we asked them to come to us with prayer requests, so we got a lot of prayer requests. Just so you know the power of prayer I want to share a list of prayer requests that our team has prayed for that have been answered. We've prayed for school fees for a lot of boys and I think most or all of them got their fees, including an orphan who was about to drop out because of fees. We prayed for a baby's eyes to be healed and they were. We prayed for a boy's parents to show up for parent's day at the school and his father came. We've been praying against malaria and no one has gotten it here. We've prayed for headaches, wounds, and pains and they have been healed. It seems almost all of our prayers are being answered in the affirmative. So be confident in your prayer, it not only works here, it also works back home.
Thanks – Daniel Myers
