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“Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee” Psalm 119:11

Cool story. So, at the island last week on the thursday, we travelled to another village. As we were doing door-to-door evangelism, where a muslim lady, among others, was led to Christ, a boy named Moses followed us around. The more we talked to him, the more we realized how good his english is, like his english was almost as good, if not, better than some of the translators with us. And this boy is only ELEVEN years old and in grade 5. And during our day there we saw just how hungry he was to learn more about God other than just on Sunday morning. So when we...

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;” Eph 5:18

July 12, 2011
Adventures
General Posts

Last week we went to an island on Lake Victoria and we saw how sad and depressed some of these people are. Most of them are fishermen and they ALL live in wooden shacks. Some nights they go to sleep with prostitutes and spend most of their money on alchohol. On Tuesday, our first full day there, we went door to door witnessing, with about three mzungu (white people) per translator. As our group was entering the village we saw about four men lounging around so we decided to tell them about Jesus. One of them wore a shirt that said "The Lord is my Shepherd"...

Hope

July 11, 2011
Adventures
Admissions

Recently, my team had the priveledge of spending one week evangelising on an island in Lake Victoria. As we approached the island, a grouping of small, rundown shacks became visible. These shacks seemed to be made of scrap wood and metal, thrown together creating a maze of brokenness and need. It soon became clear that the people living in this small fishing village needed one thing. Hope. Evangelism is not always the easiest task. Often times in America, we find that people are closed off, or we are just too timid to approach them. But this was not America, this was the island of...

Simply Love

“When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her boy that she was freed from her suffering.” Mark 5:27-29 I walked nonchalantly past shack after shack on the little island we visited in the middle of Lake Victoria. Children ran down the beach line to greet us in the little boat we road two hours in to get there. I was overjoyed to see the people who accepted Christ over the four days we...

Do you know the way you move me?

I am very competitive. I always want to be the best and I always want to be involved in everything. I want to experience everything. When I don't, part of me feels like I have failed. I have felt for a long while that I must be the elite within some nonexistent spiritual stratification. If I do not perform to a level near Jesus, then I am a failure. But that is not how God views me. He asks, "Do you know the way you move me?" Say what Abba?! "You move me just because of who you are. You are my beloved without any actions. You warm my heart just with your life. The only...

The Great Commission

Towards the beginning of this trip, I met a 16 year old girl named Evaline. She and two of her sisters own a tiny hair salon in Lira. As I spent some time with Eva, I came to know here story. At age seven she lost her mother, and at age twelve, she became an orphan when her father died. Until recently, she lived in an orphanage, and now she lives with some of her sisters. What is so touching and encouraging to me is not the fact that she is an orphan who is persevering to support herself and her sisters, but that she is so hungry for the Word of God. Eva told us that she had been praying...

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