Training Camp.. my initial thought — hmm, just like youth camp back in the day?? WRONG! When we got into Atlanta we were sent on a well, kinda sorta scavenger hunt, if you will, to find out next destination. After trodding through the streets of Atlanta in the tsunami (ha not literally, just a lot of rain, although I wouldn’t be surprised after getting back from Guatemala less than 24 hours before where there was an earthquake, volcano, tropical storm, mud slides, and of course a sink hole) we arrived at the Atlanta, Georgia safehouse, a homeless shelter downtown. Later that evening, we all went into downtown Atlanta with our individual teams. The Lira, Uganda team I am placed with is an INCREDIBLE group of godly men and women who already push and encourage me. That night in Atlanta, two of our own team members were healed from pain as we prayed over them in the name of Jesus Christ, not to mention, the many people on the streets we talked with and prayed over. People are desperate for truth, for life, for hope. Tell them. Ask them their stories, they want to tell you but nobody asks. Kevin, a heroine addict, poured out his heart and his life to me, hungry for truth, thirsty for hope. He thanked for me talking to Him, for telling Him about Truth. He said, “Thank you for not looking down on me.” Jesus Christ is the one thing that makes any of us anything. We are nothing without Him. We are all alike, all sinners, all completely lost unless we have THE Hope, THE Truth, THE Life. People want to know, you used to be the same as them without Him, so go tell them. We are called to.
Welp, we are leaving for Uganda in less than 2 hours. I AM STOKED. God is going to do some crazy awesome things through us because we are His workers going into the harvest who He has anointed and granted authority through the Holy Spirit.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” -Acts 1:8
LET’S DO THIS!! 🙂
-Jenny
