Day 8 Africa MIssion Trip 2012 (Kampala Hilton)

Words for the day:  Encouragement, Others and Service.

Pastor Perry shares with us Philippians 2.  As we travel this journey here in Uganda, Africa, we're not only anticipating to share Jesus with the people of Africa.  We're also anticipating to share Jesus amongst the 21 members of Kailua Community Church Africa Mission Team 2012.  As the new year 2013 welcomes us with hope and fellowship, may Jesus protect us from the enemy and allow us to be the kind of persons he had set for us to be.  Everything that happens on this earth is not an accident.  They are all orchestrated for the common good.

Our mission here in Kampala officially begins today!  Our medical team met Pastor Chris from Gospel of Light yesterday afternoon as we were checking in at the Kampala Hilton.

More to share as we embark the first medical mission trip for our church.

Here's geographical information about the area that we'll be ministering for the rest of the week!

Nateete lies on the main highway (A-109), between Kampala and Masaka. There is a major intersection in Nateete, where the highway to Mityana,Mubende, Fort Portal and on to the Democratic Republic of the Congo splits off the highway to Masaka, Mbarara, Kabale and on to Kigali inRwanda. At the same location, the Kampala Northern Bypass, a double carriageway highway bypassing downtown Kampala, re-joins the highways to the Rwanda and the Congo, having split off the Kampala-Jinja Highway at Namboole, in Kira.

Today, Ndeeba is a busy, growing metropolitan area with businesses, small industries, retail shops and a thriving farmers market. Many of Uganda's banking institutions maintain branches in the area due to the booming business in commercial and retail banking in the neighborhood.

Inside Gospel Light Church

 Pastor Perry preaching at Gospel of Light Church 

We visited Pastor Chris at Gospel of Light Church and joined the delegates during their worship in the morning.  What a worship it was!  We get to do this every morning for the next two days then off we go to Jinja on Saturday.  Our church, Kailua Community Church helped build this church.  There were almost 250 delegates of Pastors from all over Uganda who attended the day's conference.  While the team were waiting to be seated at the church, the delegates were worshipping down below.  Even though I can't understand what they were saying, I can feel the holy spirit's presence inside the church sanctuary.  The love for God was so evident amongst them.  Some are facing the wall with their hands raised up thanking God for His love and goodness.

 Laura Felter shaking hands with Kampala kids

 Triage area

Elisa keeping the kids busy while waiting for their turn for check-up

This is Daniel or Danny

This is Danny's mom and her sister Joan.  Little Joan was crying.   I think she's hungry and thirsty.  They've ben waiting since we came to the clinic.  It was already around 2 pm when the family were seen by the clinic doctor.  I had left over crystal light drink in my bottle water.  I offered it to Joan and mom took it and placed the tip of the bottle to Joan's lips and she drank it like a thirsty horse.  She loved it.  Her eyes lit up when she tasted the raspberry flavored crystal light drink and her smile contradicted the tears flowing from her eyes to the side of her cheeks.   Here she's already happy biting off the plastic that holds the crumbs from a biscuit that her mom was feeding her earlier.