Going to Uganda

The question always seems to be, where are you going next? And now I can answer that. :)Uganda, it is. The process has been pretty interesting, but when the decission was made that I would go - a lot of doors opened.

The first 2-3 weeks I'll be part of a team that will visit orphanages in the southern part of Uganda - in Kampala and in Jinja. We'll be praying for kids in the orphanages, lead them to Jesus, break orphan spirit, prophesy destiny, pray for healing...etc

Mid February I'll be leaving to go up to the Northern part of Uganda. Some facts about that region, and the ministry I'll be involved in.

In Northern Uganda there has been a war going on for the last 20 years. The war involves the stealing of children to make them soldiers, and the girls to become wives of the commanders. As a result of the war, there are now many displaced person camps. The rebels do not actually fight the government, they kill civilians, often torturing them. So the people in Northern Uganda have had to move out of their villages into these camps. They now depend on the UN for food.

The ministry is in the process of starting an NGO in a Northern District. The first phase is the Tabitha Project. Where they hope to get the neediest widows and teach them tailoring as well as giving them land to grow food. In the future, as they see the need they want to build a small orphanage. Lastly they hope to begin a Bible school. There are also possibilities in doing evangelism in the camp, and teaching and preaching in the church. The language is Luo, but most children are taught English in the school, so they can understand English. But to be able to communicate with the older people the local language needs to be learned.

Feeding the streetkids!

Remember how it is on Sundays after church, when all the people come to eat!
Well, now that the Holy Given School is over the street kids come in and get lunch every day. They stay at the gate all morning, at lunch they come under the tree by the compound gate - the bell rings and they come running to get food. It's quite the sight, they run for their lives - and the guard looses control....

Outreach

The last couple of months have been spent with Iris Ministires staffing Holy Given School in Pemba Mozambique. We just got back from a 2,5 weeks outreach in the bush.

It took us 2 days to get there, in the back of the truck - sore backs, laughter, fun.... very bumpy. Worth all of it, seing what God did in peoples lives.
The local church we connected with, went with us on the outreaches into the bush. 20 westerners, 7 Mozambicans and about 10-15 people from the church also Mozambicans.
We would drive into the bush, have a meeting with worship, preaching and then praying for people. Then at night the Jesus movie would be shown at a different location. After the movie, there would be ministry time where they could get prayed for and majority of the people wanted that. We saw many healings; stomach aches, heart problems, blind, deft and dumb, knees, chest pain.... it was amazing to see God at work and the way people reacted to the healings.

On the 24th of December there was a huge celebration. 15 couples got married and afterwards - food for everybody. The team helped to slaughter the goats (10), clean the rice and beans - serving the newlyweds - then the children and the others. They think that about 600 people got food that day. We had to wash the dished in between the servings, cuz we didn't have enough!! It was a lot of fun.