This will be the last time I post before I am back in the US.
I want to spend my last two days...with my people here...in Uganda...every second that I can.
Many different opportunities for this church are becoming more and more available...and through the power of prayer and Jesus Christ...they will ALL be answered for the glory of God! Please continue to pray for this church...for these people...and for our BIG God to continue to be working here in Kampala, Uganda!!
I read for the last time with a few of my readers today....and I had to fight back tears realizing that it was the last time to read with them and tell them about Jesus. I spent every minute I could with them...and wish I could spend more!
I don't know how I will be the first few days I am home...it will be hard for me...and it will be totally different.But I know through God...all things are possible!!!
Coming to Africa was something that I never thought would be possible for me...a small town girl...who dreams of being a mom and a teacher! But being here has changed my dreams from what I want...to what God wants...I have learned here...to be obedient...to answer when he calls...because how beautiful are the feet of those who teach the word of God!!
I still..after 6 weeks..catch myself asking why do these people live here and live like this? Why is their lives? Why do these children not have a mom to hold them or a dad to pick them up? Why can they know nothing more than Kampala? Why was I SO blessed to be placed in a Christian home, with a loving and generous family who has enough money to buy me food and clothes and buy me things I never really needed to begin with?
WHY DID GOD CHOOSE ME!?!?!?
That is the something that I may never fully understand...but it IS something that I can thank and praise God for EVERY day!
I praise God for making me available to come here this summer...to spend time with His people...to grow with them...build relationships..cry with them..love on them...pray with them...and leave them with a hope and joy that I pray they have forever!!!
Psalm 72:12-14 says-
"For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death.
He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight.
I love this verse...it helps me feel at peace with going home...the people here-EVERY ONE of them-are needy, are afflicted...and God sees them as PRECIOUS and that makes me feel SO much better!!!
I have dreams and goals from this experience to take back home to my church...my family...the CCSC...and my own life. A NEW me..a "Jesus Christ Version" is something I want to accomplish from now on!!-Patient, gentle, kind-hearted, loving, forgiving, slow to anger, understanding, faithful, giving, a servant.Others before me...and Jesus FIRST.
It's crazy to me...that a few people placed in my path...on a six week journey...in a dusty city in Africa...could push me to be something new...to be something radical...to be the change that Jesus called us to be.
Tomorrow is our last day of reading...our last day to see our readers...
Sunday is our last day of worship...our last time with these people...
God sent me here to break my heart...
God WILL mend it back...but it will be bigger and stronger...to LOVE his people even more back home.
Pray for our last two days here in Kampala....
Pray for our journey home!
We will be in Dallas at 2 pm (America time) and we will be staying the night there....
Tuesday the 28th we will get on a plane for Little Rock, Arkansas and arrive back home around 5:50 pm!!
Pray for our hearts to be strong...and our emotions to be stronger!
Thank you for praying for our team throughout this journey-thank you for supporting us as well!
We will forever be changed...and will forever remember the summer of 2011 in Kampala Uganda!
Love you all!
See you all VERY soon!!!<3
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