Friends, I have good news from a far country! Our team has traveled the last two days through
the mountain districts near Mbale. We’ve
met with two dozen pastors and their congregations all over this beautiful countryside. We’ve worshiped and prayed with them and
encouraged them with gifts and shared meals. Along the way we have met men who serve with
Operation Christmas Child and Gideons International. We’ve visited church plants of churches that
were started by the Foreign Mission Board decades ago. And we’ve listened as pastors have expressed
the joy that was brought to children of the village with OCC shoeboxes. Friends, we have seen the fruits of your
labor and your faithful giving! We have
seen God’s work in full circle. Truly,
the Lord is doing a great and mighty work in even some of the most remote
places of Uganda, and we are just beginning to get a glimpse of a full picture
of the family of God. We ask you to
continue to pray—just as you did when you gave your Lottie Moon offering, or
donated to the Gideons, or packed a shoebox—pray for the pastors and for the
people on the other side, that they will be encouraged in their faith, that
they will continue making disciples, and reaching new places and new people
with the Greatest News of all. Praise
God.
As I sit here reflecting back over the two days which are also the first two days of my journey through life as a 60 year young son of the most High God, the words to an old Gaither song has resounded loudly in my heart! The song, "The Longer I Serve Him"... The words:
ReplyDeleteThe Longer I Serve Him (Lyrics)
Since I started for the kingdom,
Since my life He controls;
Since I gave my heart to Jesus,
The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows;
The more that I love Him more love He bestows.
Each day is like Heaven, my heart overflows.
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows.
Every need He is supplying,
Plenteous grace He bestows.
Every day my way gets brighter,
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows.
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows;
The more that I love Him more love He bestows.
Each day is like Heaven, my heart overflows.
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows.
Each day is like Heaven, my heart overflows.
The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows, the sweeter He grows.
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ALL FOR HIS GLORY!
Warren