The Parents have arrived!

So this week has seen the arrival of Ma and Pa, I’m gonna give them a chance to share what they’ve experienced in my next post as this week’s really been about them and therefore I haven’t really done much. I’ll let them do most of the talking but I just wanted to share a couple of important things that happened this week first.

So most of my week has been showing mum and dad around Mbale and some of the projects which for me has been really cool, I’ve seen these things from my perspective but to hear about their view has been great, I’m really glad they’ve come out and seen JENGA, it’s the best way for them to see clearly what I’ve been up to, there’s only so much I can say, I can’t really fairly convey what’s going on, I’m giving my best though.

The only thing I really did this week was yesterday: I preached at Bethel. I proper loved it. I spoke on empowering youth; Paul summed this up perfectly, ‘not a very Ugandan topic’. It really isn’t which is sort of why I wanted to do it. Began by bantering with Pastor Vinnie about the events of last Saturday and then got stuck in. For the second time just on this trip and about the fourth time in my very short preaching ‘career’, I spoke using 1 Sam 16: 1-13; when Samuel anoints David as King of Israel. I spoke about how from this David knew his calling and the promises that God had for him from an early age and therefore his confidence in God increased and he had the faith to go and slay Goliath. Then related these three parties to the people in the church: David was obviously the ‘yoof’ needing to be empowered and encouraged, Goliath is the ‘world’ and all its temptations and Samuel represents the adults of the Church/those with spiritual maturity and then went into a bit of detail about how we can better do this. I think it went pretty well. Sam was preaching the same day at a Bethel plant up the mountain so we were able to check up on each other throughout the week, kept us both accountable which was good, although of course he was much more prepared than I was..

So some time in the next couple of days there will be another post from this week from my parents, don’t miss it!

Dan x

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