Be available and God WILL use you!

Sunday was another AMAZING service at the Kampala Church of Christ! Francis preached on Romans and dying to self, yet being alive in Christ. His main point to get across was to tell us to be available...and God WILL use you!!! I LOVE that!! Sheba...a woman at the church...spoke bf communion about how we can reject God when we disobey Him..and He in return might reject us...but she also spoke on how Christ was rejected and if we follow Him...we WILL be rejected by people of this world. Sheba is a beautiful woman and is SO smart! I love when she speaks on Sundays! Godfrey spoke before the offering on 2 Corinthians 9:7-"God loves the cheerful giver!"It was a GREAT service...but makes me sad that I dont have many left. What I love MOST about the church is the little things-as soon as the people walk through the gate...(late or on time) they sit down and pray alone before doing ANYTHING else! They get their minds focused and right on track for their worship to God. They have ALL of the children come to the front of the church before going to Sunday School...and the preacher prays for all of the children..blessing them and giving praise to God for their lives...All of the adults raise hands toward the children while the preacher is praying for them. After the offering is collected..they get the basket of money and place hands on it and pray for it to be used and blessed for God. All these simple things make the service SO much more special!!!
After church we had lunch and we enjoyed some time with people from the church. We went and used a few hours to rest back at the hotel before going out for the evening! We met back at the church and went with Francis to a small community called Wabigalo. Francis helps with the church in Wabigalo. Wabigalo is in the middle of the slums. This is a different slum than the one we have been to before. This slum is dirtier and messier....the smell is rather strong...and there are beautiful children running around ALL over! The homes are made of twigs..scrap metal...or clay.Right on the backside of this slum...is a small school. This is where they have church as well. There are a few rooms in this school and are all decorated with numbers and letters and posters drawn on cardboard or pieces of paper. The school was made there because it is a safe place for children to be...away from the busy streets...and it is cheap for the children to go there..seeing as how most primary schools in Africa are very expensive to attend. The children performed songs and dances for us and the teacher...founder...and Francis all spoke for us. It was a GREAT time!It rained the whole time we were in the school but just as we left the rain cleared up!! Praise God! He is good!
We then took a mini-bus (a taxi) and headed to a RUGBY game! A few members of the church wanted to take us there and show us what a rugby game was like! Uganda was playing against Zimbabwe and so it was a very exciting game! We had a GREAT time! Rugby is such a crazy game! It made me think of my brother Cody the whole time! He would LOVE the game! We finally headed home and enjoyed a dinner with some men from the church- it was buy one get one free pizza night!! So of course we ate TONS of pizza!!!
Monday we met Isaac at the church and went to the chicken project. It was about a 30 minute drive away in a tiny little community. The site of the chicken project is at Francis' house. He donated part of his home for the project. There are four rooms to this building- one room is his bed and a desk- the other three go to the chickens. There are over 250 hens there now...laying eggs for the church to sell. They feed the chickens a type of corn ground up with fish bones and other materials like that...What they discovered was that this corn was not enough to produce many eggs...they were only getting two and a half crates of eggs a week...so they decided to try something else...they found this vine that grows around the house and started feeding it to them once a day..the chickens not only LOVE it...but it has DOUBLED the amount of the eggs produced!  They sell the eggs to help support other ministries that the church is doing. Francis had prepared some boiled eggs for us and they were SO good! He also gave us some Jack Fruit..(which is AMAZING!) from his yard. He is a very kind man and is a great asset to the church!! We got in the car and headed down the road to a family's home where they also raise chickens-however, their chicken houses were MUCH bigger! They had 1,000 chickens in each house. 1 house that size costs around 5,000 American dollars. Which is a lot of money here in Uganda. The church hopes to one day have a chicken house like that to help support their other ministries even more! I thought of my dad and grandma a lot at this chicken house! They would've loved it!
We had street food last night for dinner....we ate grilled chicken...rolex(which is just like our breakfast burritos) and sausages....one part of the meat was on a kebab...and we weren't sure what type of chicken meat it was...so we decided it was best NOT to ask! The street food is by far my favorite! It tastes SOOO good...but it is best...just don't ask!:) We had a fresh pineapple for desert that Cade cut for us and it was DELICIOUS!
Today starts week 5...it is crazy to me how fast it has all gone by!!
Praying that God uses us to the fullest the last two weeks we are here and putting trust in Him that He will protect these people after we leave....breaks my heart that I may never return here...fully relying on Him to give me a peace to know that they are all going to be okay!!
I have LOVED my life for the past four weeks...it has changed me for the better...and I cannot wait to go home just so I can share the new me and the love of Jesus with others!