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Monday, June 2, 2008

welcome to Fort Portal!

Hey Everyone!!
I am in Fort Portal now!!
We had 3 awesome weeks in Mityana district in a village called Kalyankoko(which translated from Luganda means "asks chicken" (it comes from a witch doctor woman who used to ask for a chicken in payment for her services). We had such an awesome time! The church there was incredible, the pastor so humble & the church members so devoted & hungry for more of Jesus! Our work was definitely Spirit led which was amazing. We were all crammed in a little tiny house (no doors or even curtains between rooms.. so we got to know eachother REALLY well!!) and the boys slept shoulder to shoulder.. it was on dirt floors and we had no running water (but the water was clean & clear & amazing people were always fetching water for us!)We all got sick too (barfing in the banana trees!Or sick in other ways.. it was all intestinal to be sure).. and there was a jigger epidemic (I had two in one toe!) We did some crusades & some door to door. then the last week we did seminars & tim & I did kids ministry (mark & ryan each helped one day too) while the parents were in seminars in the church. 10 kids gave their lives to Jesus! It was so cool! We played a lot of soccer with the kids & the adults in the town. They all laughed at me, a muzungu girl who is not too good a soccer.. but tried anyway! We also built a house out of mud in one day (and had a huge mud fight with each other!!) I can't say much more than it was amazing and a huge blessing! Now were here in FP in a huge house... that has some weird western features to it.. so we all had culture shock the first night we got here. Catherine is sick.. please pray for her.. she has been sick since Tuesday afternoon with a fever & chills... she plans to go to the clinic tomorrow. we don't exactly have a church to work with here yet. the first one backed out on us, but it sounds like we may have one now. Msaki & Millie met with a pastor today, and we'll find out tonight what's going on. Internet is expensive & i'm almost out of time.. I'll try to be back on next monday. Pray that GOd will guide us to the right ministries & the right people & just work mightily through us. FP is HUGE.. seems bigger than Jinja. Hard to say though, this is the first time I've left the house. OK.. blessings on all of you!
love you!
miss you!
Happy JUNE!!

2 comments:

Carissa said...

Hey you!!!!
miss you bunches! i was prayign for you the other day, thought you should know i haven´t forgotten about you!

so crazy that neithere one of us is home but we are both serving God in YWAM!!!!

love you lots, Carissa

Carissa said...

hey...i know i already commented but i found out last night that you are on your DTS with Kristine, who is a friend of one of the girls who just finished her DTS here!!! we were talking last night and i told her that i had a friend in Uganda with YWAM and she said her friend was there too!!!
how crazy!!!

well...love you, Carissa