Praise the LORD!

I arrived safely in Kampala, Uganda around 2:30 am Tuesday morning. It took a while for me to fall asleep because of the time change and I spent the morning in bed resting. The staff and other volunteers were so gracious about that, I think mostly because everyone has made the long journey. Every morning the staff here leads us in praise and worship and devotion time! Even though I wasn't participating with them it was an incredibly powerful thing to wake up to people from all over the world singing "How Great is Our God!" I couldn't fall asleep for a while after that. I am so blessed to have heard their singing. It was so beautiful!

After lunch my joined a group for praise and worship at a secondary school not too far away from our house. (Our house, by the way, is completely surrounded by a brick fence and barbed wire... just for those who were concerned about my safety). These children are in school all day long from 8 am until 6/7/8 at night. When we, EAC, come to praise and worship with them, they sacrifice their lunch and free time to come and sing and hear our stories! They have the choice to come praise with us or to do their own thing, in front of their schoolmates. Can you imagine? I began to think about how little I sacrifice for the Lord and how easy it is to not show up or preach His word because we are scared or timid.

And, I'm not going to lie, I had no idea what to expect and I was honestly scared. I think I wanted to do my best for the Lord and it made me question who I am in Him! Those children were brave enough to come into that classroom and worship with us! Who was I to not want to love them and praise the Lord because I was timid? The Lord whipped me right into shape and as soon as we started singing I could literally see the Holy Spirit on the faces of these children!! I hope to have pictures up tomorrow, but they are beautiful, loving, strong children! I couldn't help but cry when I heard them praising and worshiping the same God, our God, our Father! I realized that they deserve my best, everything that I am in Christ!

I am excited about the next two weeks. Thursday I am going on Safari and I'll get to swim in a pool- that's the a pretty big deal! :) I'll probably be out of touch for a few days, but when I am back online I'll have plenty of pictures to post. I am so thankful to be here. I'll leave you with this, what the children say at school:

We say: "God is good"

They say: "All the time! God is good and we are a living testimony!"

Thank you all for your continued support and prayers! They have not gone unnoticed!