Communication slowdown…sorry. We were partying it up last night for Lauren’s 19th birthday and did not get home til late. So I blogged in the bed and posted this morning (Wednesday morning).
Tuesday was a lazy type day. We opened the day with some balloons and a party parachute for breakfast in celebration of Lauren’s Birthday then headed out. Today was all day eyeglass distribution. We ended up serving about 120 people today. It was great to see people putting on their reading glasses then break out in a big smile when they realized they could see the words! We even had a few younger people.
One guy sat down with Pastor Isaac and Amanda and found that his vision was perfect. He said that there are times when he loses his vision for 30 minutes or so then will be fine. So Pastor Isaac and Amanda sat and prayed with him. Amanda said that he was receiving Christ! How crazy is that? To pray for healing of his eyes (or whatever is going on) and pray to change your eternal future? Wow.
After our sort of lazy, sitting around, kind of day we headed back to Kampala and got to go on a “diversion.” That is the word we call a “detour.” Seems the president that Catherine was asking yesterday morning about decided to come out to our part of town yesterday afternoon. That means crazy detour through a neighborhood (read “dirt road in the hood.”) It was fun to see a little more of Kampala I haven’t seen yet. I got a copule of good pictures in cognito out the open window.
We changed clothes and headed to the north east side of Kampala. (We stay in the south east side and Buloba is on the West side). Took us about an hour to get there but we made it to Pastor Eva’s home after a few U turns. She lives in a NICE neighborhood. Nice as in paved roads and really nice homes. She had invited us over for dinner.
When we got there the team ended up gravitating outside and we discovered that there were 7 people from Buloba back there cooking! I wondered where they went after lunch today! We had an amazing buffet and an amazing time listening to the history of Buloba as a team. (yep, I said amazing finally…)
Here is the thing- Eva got saved late in life. 2 days after trusting her life to Christ as her Savior a pastor prayed for her and told her she would minister to others with her life. She pretty much ignored this call for over a year. Finally after getting hit by a car in the President’s motorcade, being picked up by the President, and being in the hospital for over a week with a broken collarbone and skull she listened. Another girl prayed for her and told her God wanted her to return to her homeland…which happens to be Buloba.
Eva and her sister Joyce shared that Buloba was a dark place they did not like to visit. They only returned there if they had someone to bury. (the family cemetery is there). They began to pray for the darkness there that they inherited from past family sin. They built the little house there and began the church in 2003.
Eva said that she and her sisters helped fund the church, build it, and lead it there. Keep in mind it takes Eva an hour and a half to 2 hours to get to Buloba when she goes!
They used their funds to serve meals to get folks to come out to church. They had people helping plant flowers and other tasks because they knew they would eventually come. Even the drums they have were purchased by Eva’s sisters. And the children who played the drums would come back to church because they loved to drum. And that is how the church was built. Prayers, vision, and hard work. So then Cornerstone came in and helped them out so much that they cannot believe it themselves…how far the church has come. And God is breaking down spiritual walls and setting people free in new ways!
We finished off our evening complete with goat meat and cake, and some prayer. Seriously mouth watering stuff. Josh ended up with something I thought was a rib- turns out he thinks it was the chicken neck! Wow. The cake was a divine thing and we all ate way too much food! We were blessed to be in Eva’s home with her family and our Buloba friends. Eva’s husband was not there- he works for a sugar company that had a meeting 120 miles away. Please pray for Eva- her husband is not a believer. And pray the Lord would give her traveling mercies each time she goes to Buloba- typically 3 times a week.
Today (Wed.) is eyeglasses this morning and then door to door. Our last work day in Buloba and sad to think our trip is almost over! So I won’t. : )
I will pst pictures tonight for you to see the birthday hoo haa and everything else.
Love and green cake to all!
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