hello friends   first of all I wasn't actually on CNN, but i was really close…we were here last night for the premiere of the invisible children kony 2012 video in Lira:   http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2012/03/14/pkg-mckenzie-kony-2012-screening-in-uganda.cnn   lots of other people already blogged about it so you can read theirs for the full recap.   I don’t have a big blog ready to post this week so instead I’ll give you some random glimpses into our life here:   transportation:  we get most places by...

So this past week has been really crazy and fun, been doing lots of ministry things and building relationships. I want to tell you all about last night though. It was truly amazing, there was a screening of the new Invisible Children video “KONY 2012”. If you have not seen the video yet, I suggest you go and watch it. It’s an amazing piece of artwork that does an excellent job of showing who and what Joseph Kony has done and is doing to the people of Africa.  So, we heard about the screening through a friend of ours. When we got there, there were a couple hundred...

     Last night we went to watch Kony2012 at a place in Lira called the Mayor’s Garden. It is a large park in Lira and they were projecting the film onto the side of a building so everyone in the city would be able to watch it. There were over 2,000 Ugandans gathered there to watch the film. It is truly one of those experiences that I cannot describe in words. I have watched all the Invisible Children videos and have always been moved by the stories the films tell. However, watching an Invisible Children film, while surrounded by people who were once those...

So this past week has been really crazy and fun, been doing lots of ministry things and building relationships. I want to tell you all about last night though. It was truly amazing, there was a screening of the new Invisible Children video “KONY 2012”. If you have not seen the video yet, I suggest you go and watch it. It’s an amazing piece of artwork that does an excellent job of showing who and what Joseph Kony has done and is doing to the people of Africa.  So, we heard about the screening through a friend of ours. When we got there, there were a couple hundred...

     Yesterday, I went to the hospital to visit a man named Tony. My team met Tony last Friday when he was dropped off at Victory Outreach Church. He had been beaten by a woman’s husband about two weeks earlier and his wounds were very infected. So infected, in fact, that he was unable to walk and his hands and feet were swollen to almost double their size. Some teammates of mine took him to the hospital and have been visiting him everyday since. Tuesdays are when our team does our weekly hospital visits. We go and pray with patients in different wards. It is...

So since being here I have been wrestling with whether or not I should be a “roadie” for Invisible Children when I get home from Africa. It has been tough because I haven’t known what I wanted to do with my life once I get home. But, this past weekend has been confirmation that I need to go for it and gain that experience.   On saturday, we went to Gulu to celebrate Darby’s birthday (one of the team members) and meet up with a contact we had named Collins. Collins was a Ugandan roadie and she gave me a lot of great information and stories behind being a roadie...