Sunday Service at Musese Village church:
The whole team except Juliana (she was feeling a little puny)
headed out to Musese Village today for church service. Drew led the men's
Sunday school and taught on the responsibility of men to lead their family and
to teach their children. Drew did a great
job of tying it in to Deuteronomy 6: 4-9 and a great question and answer
session followed where some of the other men taught out of experience, quoted
scripture and gave advice. The message was welcomed by our friends in Musese.
Dee taught the women's Sunday school and spoke about what God’s
Word says about Sin, Confession, Forgiveness, and Restoration in relationships,
specifically with a family member. Dee
shared her own testimony of restoration in her life, and referenced Joel
2:12-13, and Joel 2:25.
Jennifer led the children's Sunday school with the help of our
artistic David teaching on three different subjects (Esther - courage, David
and Jonathan - friendship, and Eljah - sharing) and led them in multiple
worship songs. The children over here are very polite and eager to learn.
Following Sunday school we went back in the church and listened
to more worship music and then Larry preached a sermon on Marriage and the
effects of sin in marriage, the need to put Christ first in our marriages, and then
each other secondly for our marriages to be as God intended it. The message was as important here as it is in
the states as many struggle here too.
The sermon was very good and we finished our church service a little
after 1:00 PM. After eating lunch and going back to Mbale, most of the team
headed to Sipi Falls where we got to climb up the hill to go behind the falls
and then up the hill further to go to another falls, and then up even further
to go above the falls and to see the beginning of the series of falls which
started at the top of the mountain. Bill climbed up to the first set of falls,
but it was too steep for him to go any further. Our guide climbed the mountain
like a goat and seemed to be in a hurry.
We stopped him a few times to take some pictures, but we weren't sure
where the trail headed and before we knew it, we were almost back down the hill
without getting a chance to take pictures of the upper falls. The ride over to
and Sipi Falls was a bit bumpy at times, but the scenery as we went up the
mountain was spectacular and coming back, God was demonstrating some of His
beauty with the sun setting behind the clouds. Artists only dream of painting something like
that.
The week has flown by. It
was such a pleasure to serve alongside this whole team. Everybody was very busy
every day and we all were stretched, but over 100 people came to Christ and
many more were shared with. Our constant
prayer was that we would be a reflection of Christ as we visited each and every
person, that we would in a graceful manner correct bad theology, and that we
would only see people as people either being lost and needing to hear the
truth, or being our brother or sister in Christ (in which case we could
encourage and pray for them). We all
know that we didn't deserve to be here representing and sharing God's Word, but
we were thankful and blessed to be allowed to do it.
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