Church Time!

Today was by far the most exciting day of the week here in Uganda...not only did we celebrate in true Uganda style after finding out the play by play of the Canucks game, but the team got to experience Ugandan Church!

Peace Portal Community Church, situated at the bottom of the hill from the orphanage, is church to hundreds in the Mpigi community. Everyone puts on their Sunday best and comes together to worship and praise God in a way only Ugandans can; arms and voices lifted high, dancing like no-one is watching! Allayne even gave a taster of Peace Portal Canada's worship by playing a song for everyone.

The team was in charge of teaching the Sunday school lessons before and during church. Tiana and Wendy shared their testimonies, Lauren taught the youth, Brent taught the adults, and Deb, Howard, Tracey, Allayne and Lauren taught the children while Pastor Scott preached the sermon. Nigel worked hard taking pictures! Everyone was nervous because this was so far out of their comfort zone, but God was faithful and spoke through them and the morning turned out to be a huge success.

This afternoon we had to say some hard goodbyes to 5 children we love dearly. The 5 oldest children here at the orphanage are now in their first year of secondary school and must live in the dorm rooms at the school. We were fortunate enough to bring them back for the weekend to spend some short but valuable time with them, but had to say goodbye this afternoon. We sent them on their way with hand made quilts, new backpacks and new bibles. We are all so proud of how well they are doing in school, the hard work they put in to their education, and the amazing example they are setting for the other children here. It's like seeing our babies grow up. Sad but proud!

God continues to bless the team with good health and is revealing many new lessons to us each day. Thank-you for all of your prayers and we ask that you continue to pray for God to move us and reveal himself to us in all that we do.

Lauren