Today was the day set aside to encourage our teachers and prepare them for the third term of school. We have 13 teachers who are all very dedicated to serving the Lord and doing their best to instill into the children a Christlike worldview. We started out with prayer and Keith shared from Ezekiel 33, reminding them that they are watchmen over the children, that they are very responsible for what goes into their minds and how it is put there. We are so grateful that here in Uganda our children are not so exposed to the world of media and entertainment. There is less competition for their minds and hearts. We do face the challenge of traditional ways, ancestral worship, and witchcraft in the beliefs of their parents. But we know that the Holy Spirit will overcome these. We ended the meeting with each of the teachers making a list of the children in their class. They will take the list home and pray over each child by name, personality and family situation. First of all, and most
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From Roots to Fruit
In this current world of globalization: such as Facebook, internet, digital...everything,cell phones, jets, etc., the world seems so connected. Yet deep in the bush, in remote villages of Northern Uganda and the new country of South Sudan there are tens of thousands of children who know only their surroundings and learn only what they live day to day. As both of these countries have suffered decades of war, globalization is an unknown concept. Is that a bad thing? Eleven years ago, Keith and I came to Uganda as the Lord had called us to do. We gladly left behind our country, culture, family, lifestyle, etc. As we look back over those years here in Uganda, there are too many events, relationships made and some broken, lessons learned, heartaches and heartbreaks, and joys and blessings, to count. But one thread has remained the same... The children. The children are the roots of the next generation. What are they learning? What will they become? Getting down deep into the heart