One of our weekly ministries is going to a boarding school for 4-13 years olds. There are a few students who are older then 13 but thats because they were previously child soldiers so they lost those years that they should have spent in school. We get the opportunity to play and pour into over 200 kids.
The last 30 minutes of our time is spent in prayer and worship. Listening to 200 kids worship and cry out to God is quite possibly one of the most powerful and amazing sounds on earth. I am not talking about the typical kids in the U.S. who have way to much energy and jump around singing Jesus loves me. What I am trying to describe is little 6 year olds on their faces crying out to God on behalf of their families, friends, and country. Its something that I can't even explain. It has totally made me rethink what God meant when he said to have faith like a child.
To have faith like a child in Uganda means asking God for the impossible; their mom cured from a disease that will eventualy kill her. It means crying out for safety as they lay down to sleep. It means to ask God to provide their next meal. Crying out to God to bring their older sister home, who has been missing for over a year. For God to help heal their brother from all the abuse of being forced into the LRA(Lords Resistance Army). Sad thing is…. the list goes on and on.
These kids have more faith then a lot of people I know and they are only 8 years old. Honestly… they might have more faith then I do. A faith that simply believes that God hears their prayers and is fully capable to answer them. So they pray daring, impossible and huge prayers. That is what it means to have faith like a child here in Uganda.
