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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