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Gosh I could tell so many more tragic stories from being here and then there’s the explosions yesterday in Kampala. We were watching the world cup final in a proper African bar with a corrugated iron roof and brilliant atmosphere then heard the news. But enough for now. God is mighty and in control. This country is a big spiritual battleground but God has already won so we’re waiting and praying for the kingdom to break out.
And we can see that it is – the glory of God in the beautiful animals and birds and countryside, the new life God has breathed over the people here, in church the preacher said if it wasn’t for God some of us would be dead, that’s true of all the kids in the orphanage we went to visit on Saturday, their lives have literally been saved. And we went with Sister Helen into some really rural villages and painted on one of the mud huts was I know -> trust God!! And that person only has that hope because at some point someone majorly stepped out of their comfort zone and got on a boat to Africa.
God is totally in control and he will bring justice to the witch doctors who sacrifice 12 year old boys and hope to starving people who can't grow enough food, he will comfort those who mourn like the mother in the paediatric unit on Friday and give grace to people who are bound in corruption and steal the hospital funds and bring healing to the orphan kids with HIV. LOVE this passage, the whole chapter is brilliant:

The Lord will surely comfort Zion, and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing. Listen to me, my people, hear me, my nation: the law will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations...for I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves roar- the Lord Almighty is his name. I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand – I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘ You are my people.’ Isaiah 51:3-5, 13-16

I think the Almighty God is on the move.

Off to Lake Bunyonyi in the south later in the week - safari tents overhanging the river and dugout canoes and chipanzees, can't wait!

Much love,
Christine