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| Youth worship event |
The main event of this week was our youth worship event at KBC on Saturday evening, which we have been working towards since the New Year. We were all excited to have this opportunity to come together with other young people who we had invited to lead them to worship God. Thank you to everyone who prayed for the event!
We set out a vision that the event would not be seen just as a 'concert' but as a time of worship:
- Desire to see a generation of youth worshipping the Lord and having their complete trust and confidence in God.
-Helping young people discover that their true identities are in the Lord.
-Leading others to encounter God's greatness.
-Rejoicing together for God's faithfulness.
The scripture that we chose as the theme for the evening was Isaiah 40:27-3, 'Hope in the Lord, He will renew your strength...' and we had a heart to encourage others to put their trust in God. These are some of my favourite verses and I read them on the evening.
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| Theme scripture |
We had rehearsals for on Monday-Wednesday and then our final dress rehearsal on Friday. I love being able to sing and worship so much whilst here with other people and it's something I will miss greatly when I'm back in the UK. It really does make such a difference to my day and it has been teaching me how to become better at praising God no matter how I am feeling or how my day has been.
During the week, many of our team members fell ill one by one, with some hospital visits, but we thank God that by the end of the week, everyone was healed or on the mend after lots of prayer. One encouraging thing that we did on Friday was set up a prayer chain between 10PM on Friday and 10AM on Saturday so that somebody was praying for the event during each half an hour during those times. My slot was 11:00-11:30 and because we got stuck in traffic on the taxi back home, I ended up praying on our boda (motorbike) ride home.
When we arrived at church on Saturday afternoon, people were working on the stage set and it looked amazing when it was finished. We then shared dinner of rice with sauce and meat, before having a final sound check and prayer.
The event was a brilliant time- there was a great turnout of people of all ages, the set and lighting looked fantastic and everyone enjoyed worshipping God through singing, dancing, watching skits and listening to poetry.
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| Worship |
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| Worship |
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| Worship |
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| Lois singing her solo |
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| After the event |
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| After the event |
The highlights of the week were:
- This week was our last week of having two catch up classes and one day making resources for and visiting Ruth Mother Care before the school term resumes next week.
- After eight months here, my shoes have been looking pretty worn out from all the walking up and down the hill we live on and through the slums, so I decided to go to the craft market on Tuesday to find some sandals to wear for the worship event so I looked a little more presentable. One of the most popular style of girl's shoe sizes here are 'crafts' sandals, with beaded decorations so I spent a long time trying on dozens of sandals at the little booth stalls there until I found a lovely blue and red floral pair. I always love visiting the market because there are so many beautiful crafty souvenirs- I could buy the whole shop!
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| Market booths |
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| Examples of the crafts you can buy |
- In community outreach, we ran a workshop on hygiene for the families we visit in Nabulagala. It was great to see that there was a good turnout.
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| Workshop |
Please pray for:
- For Lois, Kate and I as we come into the final month of our time in Uganda, that we would be able to use these weeks to serve God and that He would prepare our hearts to be ready to make the transition back to the UK.
-For continued safety when travelling.
-That the new building at Ruth Mother Care would be completely finished for the new term.
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