God’s Heart Beat

A heart beat,Pumping lifeblood through your veins.You would die without it. God’s heart beat:LoveCompassionHelping the needy Things that cannot be put into words. God’s heart beat coursing through you; as you dance and laugh with children playing mingle; as you break up a fistfight two children have started, trying to be first; as you visit a single mom of nine and your heart goes out to them. As beautiful broken people grab your heart, the heartbeat is no longer your own, but starts to beat to the rhythm of God’s heart.

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“Old Pine”

“As the old pine fell we sang, just to bless the morning”  Old Pine by Ben Howard. A song whose lyrics hit home today.  As my adventures in Uganda come to a close, I feel the call to many more. When I step off the airplane in Atlanta, GA to end our trip, I know another will be there to take me to experiences greater than I could have hoped or imagined. As the “Old Pine” is falling my heart sings.  We’ve had a week filled with school children’s laughter, rooftop safari rides and late night, starlit conversations with friends. Each moment precious,...

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Fire.

In my last post, I had just given you glimpses of how I’ve been living in Uganda. But of course, that just scratched the surface. I want to let you in on what I’ve been experiencing spiritually (I will try to make it as condensed as I can bear, because I could probably write for days about it). Here’s the background story:Before leaving Uganda, I asked the Lord to give me one thing that I could ask people to pray for during my trip. However, sometimes when you ask God for a cup of water, He gives you the ocean. Instead of one straightforward prayer request, He brought images...

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To be More Like Jesus.

Hey friends,As my time in Uganda is coming to a close, I’ve realized what it means to be more like Jesus. I’ve learned what it means to talk like Jesus, walk like Jesus, love like Jesus. Talking like Jesus is listening to a strangers life story. It’s telling them that we love them and care about them. It’s praying for them without ceasing. Walking like Jesus is going an hour out of the way to share worship songs and God’s love with 1,600 kids. It’s going to different homes and  picking G-nuts out of the ground. It’s drawing water from a well a half...

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Being a Teacher is Hard.

Being a teacher is hard. For the past week we have been helping with a local school. I have been in the P2 class, which is the age range of second grade. I there are eight students in the P2 class. The teachers here have been taught to write something on the board, read it to the children, and have them repeat it over and over until they have memorized it. Then the children have to draw a picture of what they learned about.  Most of the kids cannot read. In an attempt to help these kids actually learn to read, and give the teacher another teaching tool, I introduced them to Bingo, using...

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My heart is fully living here.

My time here in Uganda has been crazy. It’s been an incredible journey. Africa is exactly how I pictured it in many ways, and yet it is so different. We worked with a preschool and a primary school this last week. Their education consists of a teacher writing on the black board, the children repeating it over and over again, then writing it in their own notebooks. The class I was in, P1, didn’t have enough pencils, so it took an hour to copy notes. The children are all so happy to be there though. Their smiles brighten my day. I had my first African church service last Sunday. There’s...

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