We arrived in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, on Christmas morning. Our team lost two of our bags in transit so like a family would do we have been sharing clothes and other things. The whole process of reporting the missing bags took more than an hour of standing in line in the stifling heat at the Entebbe airport. Not fun! Especially when most of our team had only slept a few hours in the past two days of air travel. Once outside two of our girls almost got arrested for chasing monkeys on the airport premises. We're still not sure that it's illegal to chase monkeys and it seems that the police officer was just out to try and get some money from us.
We went straight to Makerere Community Church where our contact Martin Ssempa is the pastor. The service was halfway over by the time we got there and yet we still didn't leave until 2 pm. Ugandans sure know how to worship!!! After church some of the young leaders from the church took us to lunch. Praise God because no one on our team has had any physical complications from the food!We made it to our hostel at 4 pm and we were so exhausted that we only spent 5 minutes opening presents and then we crashed until 7 am this morning. Today we are moving to the Makerere Community Church ministry center where we will be staying for the rest of our time in Kampala. The cost of living at the ministry center is very inexpensive and we have a kitchen there where we can cook our own meals. So far it looks like our ministry will be on teaching HIV/AIDS prevention at Makerere University, leading Bible studies with students, evangelizing on campus, doing home visits with those who have HIV/AIDS, and serving the church outreaches using our gifts in drama, media, filmmaking, writing, speaking, etc.
Please pray that our missing bags will get here tomorrow. Pray that God will use to minister and love on the people of Uganda in the name of Jesus. We love and miss you all and wish everyone a Happy Boxing Day!
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