Team from United Dayspring that came to work at the children's villages!
Opening of Suubi Babies Home! Babies all dressed in Watoto shirts!!
Kayla and I at Grand Opening!
All babies currently at Suubi Babies home!
It doesn't matter what trials I am going thru God always reminds me that He is right beside me! These past few weeks have had many challenges! My emotions have been all over the place. I will recap my life a little since it has been a couple of weeks since I have blogged!
The team from Dayspring Church arrived safe and sound and had a wonderful 10 days here in Uganda! It was quite different sharing a little bit of my world with people from home because at times it feels as though we live in two totally different worlds! And what they find to be so new and a crazy style of living I have become adapted to and call this the "norm." I was very happy that Linda had time to reconnect with her family during that time. It was an excellent opportunity for her to share with them what she has been involved with and to show them where she lives etc. But with all good things there must come an end, which meant sending them back to snowy Ohio!
Speaking of which I cannot believe I am missing history at home! From what my family tells me there has been crazy amounts of snow. And as happy as I was to miss out on the whole winter season this year, just hearing about it makes me at least want to be home for 1 day to enjoy the beauty of it! I do miss home on and off! There are def days when I feel like packing everything up and flying away. But that would be taking the easy way out, and I know God is not yet finished with me here in Uganda!
Hard to believe that tomorrow marks 4 months that I have been here! What an incredible journey! Like the anticipation to go home and share with everyone all the great things that God has been doing in me and thru me sometimes keeps me up at nite! In the last month God has been teaching me so much about my speach and how to love people! And even better about not holding back about how the Holy Spirit has been working in me! The power of our testimony is beyond amazing and can impact the lives of so many! The other week during our cell group here at the apartment had a wonderful time of sharing about how God turned our lives upside down and how we got saved! There is no doubt God can take the weak, the cold hearted, the ones that you would think are so far into sin and He refines them and today they are something so beautiful!! Like words cannot describe it until you here about it!
Hard to believe that tomorrow marks 4 months that I have been here! What an incredible journey! Like the anticipation to go home and share with everyone all the great things that God has been doing in me and thru me sometimes keeps me up at nite! In the last month God has been teaching me so much about my speach and how to love people! And even better about not holding back about how the Holy Spirit has been working in me! The power of our testimony is beyond amazing and can impact the lives of so many! The other week during our cell group here at the apartment had a wonderful time of sharing about how God turned our lives upside down and how we got saved! There is no doubt God can take the weak, the cold hearted, the ones that you would think are so far into sin and He refines them and today they are something so beautiful!! Like words cannot describe it until you here about it!
Other challenges that were brought my way include the illness of my Uncle Gregg! He still stands in great need of prayer! A volunteer that I work with shared a passage from Mark 5 with me that renewed my confidence in the healing power of God! Gregg has been hospitalized for close to 2 weeks now with numerous problems! As soon as I think he is getting better I recieve a text saying that he is ill again! I was so happy I got to call him and talk with him and Aunt Irene for awhile! Made me feel like I was able to "visit" him. I am sure he would covet your prayers!
For the last week I was living our at Suubi babies home with some other volunteers! Living in the village def has a different feel than living in the city! :) On Monday we celebrated the grand opening of the new babies home! Pictures are featured above!
There is a possibility of me going to Gulu, which is in northern Uganda for a couple weeks! It is very up in the air but excited about the possibility to see the work that Watoto is doing in other parts of Uganda! I will keep you posted on that though!
Just a word of encouragement to those reading this to fully rely on God! It sounds simple but we so often forget to do so! He is our Rock and our Fortress! Our strength comes from Him! He deserves every part of us! Don't wait to make Him first in your life! Today can be the turning point for YOU!!
I love each and everyone of you deeply! But remember most importantly God loves you!!!!
For the children, Kara
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