as we enter into this week....

hello friends. kirsten here. today was a wonderful day. we went to katale...to a local church this morning. they normally start around 11:00 but we got there at about 11:30. there were several people up in the front singing and we could recognize the melody to some of the songs but did not know the words because it was in luganda. you could definitely tell that we were visitors and they had the choir come back up and sing a few more songs because "when the visitors are happy....we are happy," the pastor explained. they were dancing and you could tell that singing praises was really a relational thing. a couple of people came up and gave testimonies and one lady explained how she was having a hard time in her village because of her faith. i did not understand the whole story, even though there was a translator but her and her family were being persecuted for being christians. the church service was longer than what we are used to and even leaving shortly after the service ended we did not get into the car until about 2:00...you can do the math. :)

monday (tomorrow) and tuesday we are going back to the church to do vbs with the children. pastor wilson announced to the children that we were going to be there to serve food and play games, and teach the children. he told them that they should tell everyone that they knew and bring their friends to the church tomorrow. delight (the missionary we are staying with) told us that the last team who did vbs at this church had about 400 children show up. so....we are in for some pretty long but very exciting days. our theme for the next two days is "heroes" and we will be teaching them about certain people in the bible who really walked by faith and what we can learn from them. prayers will definitely be appreciated as we start this week.....that we can just be a light to these children and show them the love of Christ.

tomorrow evening after vbs, we will be going to Kampala International University to participate in a bible study with the college students there. and then on tuesday after vbs, we will go to a place called Jordan's home. there are children/adults there ranging from 6 to 21 years old. many of these children are orphans, and we will get the chance just to play and talk with them.

God is good.

we will keep the updates coming.....good night!