I am in Uganda, hard to believe right? Yep it is. I’ve only been away from Pa for 2 weeks, but it feels like so much longer. It already feels like I have been gone for months! It still hasn’t really hit that I am going to be in Africa for 4 months. It sounds crazy. Okay it doesn’t just sound crazy, it is crazy! It took a lot to get here, but I am so thankful for this opportunity of a lifetime. I have seen God a lot already in my team and the people we have met so far. God has hand-picked my team and I am so excited to get to know them even more over the next 4 months! It is going to be absolutely amazing! I am so thankful to have arrived safely and be starting our ministry here in Tororo, Uganda. God has some awesome plans for my team and I am stoked to see what they are. This first month in Uganda we will be switching locations/towns every 9 days and rotating with the other two expeditions teams. These first 2 weeks God has opened my heart to see the broken hearted and the wounded. He has shown me the hurt of young children. He has shown me to love them. My verse for this trip is Song of Songs 8:6 it reads, “For love is as strong as death, it’s jealousy unyielding as the grave.” That is the love I need to have for everyone I meet. Love is such a huge part of this trip for me. Our first ministry day which was Sunday afternoon we went and visited a private hospital. That was hard. At a private hospital they get the best treatment..that’s not what it looked like. We split into groups and went around and prayed for all the people there. My group met a lot of people. 2 women Joyce and Claire stuck out to me, maybe because there was a connection. First we met Claire and asked her what we could pray for. She was pregnant and just lost a baby. That made my heartache. I felt for her, I cried for her. Then later we met Joyce she also was pregnant and had just lost her baby. Oh boy that was rough. My heart hurt big time. Right there I knew this wouldn’t be easy. Those two women now have a special place in my heart. Those of you who don’t know I went through a very rough time last January. Someone related to me lost her baby and I was there. For me to meet these two women that went through that I felt their pain. I knew their heartache. They needed to know God had a plan. He didn’t forget about them.
