Today is our last day in Uganda and it seems like the time has flown by.  God has blessed our team in so many ways .  He has kept his promises to us and shown Himself to be a good God.  Our work here has not been in vain and many people have turned their lives over to author and perfecter of our faith Jesus Christ.  The biggest thing that you can be praying for is that the new believers get plugged into the Christian community and people are there to disciple them and help them grow in their faith.  So my two good Uganda friends and I went to this dirty river and...

Wednesday 20 June 2012 Mbarara, Uganda Ugandi (Hello) Only two more days till we are off to Kenya. The Lord has truly showed up in Mbarara and his love continues to touch the hearts of so many. My love for Africa grows stronger everyday I am here and the people capture my heart more and more. Being here has truly been a blessing, we have been well taken care of by a local pastor here, pastor Solomon who, let me tell you, is the funniest ugandan man you will ever meet. A few running jokes here is that he is going to marry us off for herds of cows, now, by no means would I take his offer but...

My first blog was about how God knows us personally. During our first hospital visit God expressed to me, in another way, how He knows. To see the conditions and the people in the hospital was hard. Our group visited the women’s ward, the children’s ward, and the ICU. Great things did happen: a women who hadn’t felt her arm in over two years was able to move her fingers for the first time in those two years. God is a miracle worker!!! The difficulties: People with minor illnesses or injuries and people who are days, or even minutes, from death are all in the same room. I...

“We are marching, marching we are marching, marching we are marching in the light of God.” I’ve heard that song a thousand times before in my life. My mother lived in Swaziland for a couple of years before I was born, and I grew up singing that song before I even realized Swaziland was a real place. In the visits I’ve been privileged to make to Swaziland, that song has always been a constant. Everyone there knows it and likes to sing it. Coming into this trip, I was really making a concentrated effort not to draw imagined similarities between Uganda and...

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of us…   My team and I have been in Africa a little less than a week. We’ve been in a  city called Mbarara in Uganda for only close to 5 days. But in this short time there is so much God is impressing on my heart. But perhaps what has astounded me most is the juxtaposition of all of the beauty here with all of the brokenness. This literally is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been in my life. There is something about the bright green of...

We had a girl’s bible study with our lovely Pastor’s wife, Lillian yesterday. Her thoughts for us were simple, yet so profound for myself. She began by saying “why are you here?” and the cliche mission trip answers came to mind: sharing God’s love, helping people, etc. I mean, isn’t that obvious? She took it a step further by saying that if we are not winning souls, we are wasting Jesus’ blood and the price He paid. Well, I had never thought about it like that. Jesus died so that every single soul could spend eternity with Him. That gift is way too...