Home Sweet Home

We made it! We’re here! After a long journey, we arrived in Mbale before lunch today and received an incredible welcome from our family at Ebenezer, a welcome home for those of us who have come to Uganda before. And our newest teammates are learning just how easy it is feel at home here, to take children by the hand, link arms with our brothers and sisters at Ebenezer, and to be about God’s work in the village.

This evening our team split up and traveled in small groups to the houses of church members to have Bible studies.  It was such an honor to be invited into their homes and such an incredible joy to minister to their neighbors along with them. Without any extensive discussion, planning, or preparation on our part, the Holy Spirit led each of these groups to focus specifically on the Gospel as the central message of the lessons. Not one of us referenced the same exact scripture or Bible story, but we all came to the same beautiful conclusion, Jesus.  We can truly testify to the supernatural way God is unifying our team together and with Ebenezer, and lives are already being changed forever, with many receiving Jesus as their Savior today! God is working in our midst and we can’t wait to see what He will accomplish over the next week!

Home indeed.

Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.




 

Amsterdam Airport-- Where Either Way Leads Home!

Well, while most of you on the other side of the big water are curled up in the bed, our journey to Uganda continues with a short reprieve from the confines of an airplane.

We are enjoying stretching our legs as we prepare for another 10-hour flight to Entebbe in the airport in Amsterdam.

Your prayers continue to be answered as all members of the "Green Shirt Brigade" are doing very well. We will arrive in Entebbe at 10:25PM (2:25PM U.S. Time), gather our luggage and board the beautiful bus many of you helped provide, and travel another 3 hours before crawling into bed for 3-4 hours in Jinja.

We will finish our journey to Mbale on Friday morning arriving at around noon to one of the most beautiful "homecoming" welcomes imaginable.

And then the fun begins ... O God, how truly great thou art!!!

EMMANUEL...GOD WITH US!----WORTH A REPEAT SINCE GOD HAS CONFIRMED THIS SO MANY TIMES!!!

It seems that God is in the business of making sure we know He is going before us! And as Mary Faye and I left First Baptist Church Newnan with the seventeen beautiful people that HE ordained to make up the Mission Mbale 2018 Summer Mission trip to Uganda, He wasted no time in beginning to prove it!

After a beautiful prayer Pastor Jimmy, we began our journey to the airport with 55 checked bags, 38 carry-ons and 19 very excited Kingdom Warriors. As we began unloading at the airport, Delta employees began assisting and guiding us to where we should go. This is where the "EMMANUEL---GOD WITH US" really started to kick in because when we arrived at the check-in counter we were greeted by the smiling faces of Jesus and Angela. They truly were angels sent from above because we had an absolutely beautiful experience and were in no time headed to the security gate where everyone passed through without a single person being stopped or questioned.

The journey continues...we are now sitting at Gate A-46 in the airport in Detroit waiting for the call to start boarding when we heard this announcement instead..."Attention all passengers waiting to board Delta Flight 134 for Amsterdam, your flight has been delayed for one hour due to the plane's late arrival of the incoming flight from India."

Obviously whoever made that announcement didn't know God was controlling the flight schedule for us because in just a few minutes after the first announcement the speaker roared to life again informing us that boarding was about to begin. To sum all of this up in a neat little "I Told You So" from God, we got on the plane and the Captain announced that we would be arriving in Amsterdam a few minutes ahead of our previously scheduled landing time! My friends, that's the God WE serve...GOD WITH US!

And we've only just begun this journey...please stay tuned for the rest of the story! MISSION MBALE 2018--JULY 18-29!

AND ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!!☺

ALL FOR HIS GLORY!

Team Mbale 2018

"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not for harm; to give to you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11