The Village of Wakiso

Sunday...we got up and went to church here at the Kampala Church of Christ...Again..it was a BEAUTIFUL service..very uplifting and encouraging...the people here are so wonderful and so full of love for Christ. After church...we ate a normal lunch of rice,beans,posho,meat,and greens...and then loaded up in a bus to head to the village of Wakiso. We had to bring the cow trough...or our "baptistry"...along with us! We took several people from the church and traveled for about 30 minutes outside of the town of Kampala. We reached Wakiso...which is a BEAUTIFUL village...green in EVERY direction you look. Fruit trees were EVERYWHERE!-Mango, Bananas, Guava, pawpaw, and even avocado trees! We were greeted first things by a handful of children-naturally...I went straight up to them to shake their hands-in Uganda...EVERYONE shakes EVERYONE'S hands...to say hello..goodbye...anything...and you usually hold hands like that for some time...I was SO excited to see that many children! Children of ALL ages as well...They usually just stared at us...until we began to wave and then they would smile..wave back and then turn their heads to giggle! They eventually started warming up to us and it was PRECIOUS!!! It started to rain so all the kids and adults got under a tarp that was strung between some trees... Terzol played the song "This is how we overcome" which says;
Your life broke through my night
Restored exceeding joy
Your praise fell like the rain
And made this desert live

You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy
You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy

Your hand lifted me up
I stand on higher ground
Your praise rose through my heart
And made this valley sing

You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy
You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy

This is how we overcome
This is how we overcome
This is how we overcome
This is how we overcome

You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy
You have turned my mourning into dancing
You have turned my sorrow into joy
Well of course...I HAD to teach the children the dance moves to this song...and so...the children of Wakiso and I danced in the rain under a small orange tarp..in the middle of Africa...to these beautiful song! It was SO much fun!Their smiles and laughter is ALL the proof I need to see why God sent me here...these children were beautiful.
After the rain stopped, we played a little bit of soccer and then had church. They laid a tarp out on the ground for the children to sit on...naturally...once again I was right in the middle of the children...sitting on the tarp with them!Sharing a tarp with dozens of homeless, hungry, sick children made me feel a new kind of love...a crazy kind of love...that ONLY God could provide to me at that moment.
We baptized 12 people..carrying in the water to fill the baptistry was a task in itself!...I am just SO thankful that I may never see these people again here on Earth...but I KNOW one day we will meet again and we can talk about that PERFECT day that we shared together in the Wakiso Village.
I later found out that majority of those children I was around were homeless..living on the streets and in ditches...many of them were HIV positive as well...The owner of the land where we had church, his name is Godfrey, has SO much land and it is FULL of fruit trees...He allows the children to come and get as much fruit as they want...most of them live off of his fruit.I am SO thankful that Godfrey is there to provide those children with some type of food.
I am not sure if you can tell or not...but I really do love that place...it had a special tug on my heart.
As I was leaving...I just told each child "Nkwagala"(I Love You)...because thats all I could leave them with...I just pray that my simple words went deep into their hearts and brought some joy into their lives!
Pray that God does BIG things through the Kampala Church with the growth of the Wakiso church!
We are starting our 4th week today! Pray that our time left here is spent in glory of God!
Love to you all!!!<3