Uganda is Imminent

I leave for Uganda in 6 days. I find myself remembering all of the incredible things we experienced last time. This trip there are only 4 travelers as opposed to 10 from last time. I think the traveling will be easier given the people that are traveling with me and that I know what kind of grueling travel to expect.

During this trip it looks like I will have the opportunity to lead worship for a 2 day worship conference in Gulu, Uganda. I can’t wait to see what happens with that. God is so alive, so present and His people are so uninhibited there. I’m sure it will be an experience like no other. How do you prepare for something like that? I mean first and foremost the language will be a barrier. I’m not sure how this will work. I know only that it WILL work because God is behind it. That is a very cool prospect.

I can envision the children’s faces as we hold their hands and hug them in the camps. I remember as they check their own hands to see if our ‘white’ had wiped on to them. I can hear the children laughing as we play with them at the orphanage. I remember the tears we cried when we first saw true worship in a mud hut with nothing but hands clapping and voices raised. I can feel the hope and joy we saw in the prisons and the tenderness of those we prayed for in the hospitals. I can see the change as we saw people accept Jesus for the first time in camps, prisons and hospitals. Soon those memories will become reality again. I am grateful.