It began weeks ago. The anticipation of who would win the shoes was high, and so everyone began inviting and inviting. Our focus for this Independence Day service was first-time visitors. Ugandans are full of promises, and we hear people promise us every week that they will come. However, with a Friday service not being a regular church-day service, we were hoping for a great turnout. Although we didn't get an official final count, we estimated that we ended up with about 90-100 first-time visitors! WOW! Both the man and the woman who brought the most visitors were promised a pair of new shows from our local shoe store. All our people did great, but the man who brought the most? It was Paul Sserunjogi - the lame man in our church who doesn't even wear shoes!
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| Paul Sserunjogi |
Of course, we will be sure to substitute something equally of value, but wow - how convicting to those of us who do wear shoes and have the ability to walk around to invite people!
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| Pastor Bernard preaching on freedom |
We enjoyed trivia questions with flags and keychains for the prizes, and then our guest speaker was Pastor Bernard from Kitende Baptist Church.
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| The five finalists for the most patriotic-dressed contest |
The most patriotic dressed contests is always great to see, and Sarah Najjuko won for the second year in a row.
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| Sarah Najjuko and her new umbrella |
We had brought 302 Ugandan pencils and gave one out to each person who attended. However, about 30 people didn't get one - not even counting the three missionary families. God truly blessed us with a great day.
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| We even set up benches outside to handle the overflow. A great crowd! |
In preparing for Independence Day, I started searching months ago for something yellow for the girls and I. I came up empty, but another missionary was able to bring shirts back from the States for Shae-Lynn and Savannah, and she had a very difficult time just finding them. I ended up just adding yellow ribbon to my outfit, but I'm wondering why yellow is such a difficult color to find?
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| Shae-Lynn, myself, and other missionaries |
Maybe we should all just wear the football jerseys like the boys. (I didn't realize until today that Skyler is the only one without a jersey; poor guy!)
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| Shiloh and Stanley are on the ends with their missionary friends in between |
We had a great day, but most of all we hope that the people realize what a precious gift of freedom they have in their country and most of all the freedom they can have in Christ.
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| Isn't Alvin too cute? |
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