Uganda Update
I CAN’T BELIEVE WE DID IT!! I can’t believe it all came together….and came together smoothly! Looking around the room, seeing months and months of hard work and preparation, countless cross cultural mis-read emails, and many marathon meetings in attempts to coordinate a conference halfway across the world finally come to fruition was an incredibly sweet feeling of accomplishment. God is so good! After a while my face started hurting from smiling so hard but I couldn’t help it. The energy was incredible and the excitement was contagious.
Considering we’re operating in Uganda time, I think starting only a half an hour behind was quite an achievement. Adam and Sylvia did a great job of loosing up the room and casting the vision for KOTEL and our hopes of bringing empowerment and restoration to a country so desperately in need. Adam mentioned some joke about being polish and got a decent laugh from the crowd considering it wasn’t that funny but with Sylvia’s help, the crowd seemed excited for the weekend and eager to receive the stirring of God in their hearts. Ugandan worship is what I think worship will be like in heaven. There’s just nothing like it and I won’t even attempt to describe it in words now. You’ll just have to experience it yourself one day. But after an amazing time of worship, the crowd was definitely open and eager to hear Pastor Sean share. I knew he’d inspire and motivate but I had no idea he’d do it so well it’d bring tears to my eyes. There’s no doubt God’s glory was present and moving!
If you take a piece of paper and fold it in half it’s really not that thick. If you fold it in half again it gets a little thicker and again a little more. If you were to fold one piece of normal 8 ½ by 11 piece paper 52 times do you know how thick it would be?…..As thick as a phone book? A refrigerator? Actually it would be so thick it would travel to the moon! And even crazier if you folded it again it would travel ALL the way back! To me that’s incredible but that’s the power of duplication. I don’t think the true significance of what we are trying to do with this leadership conference really hit me until today. If each attendee were to share the impact of this conference to inspire another and then another and another, the power of duplication kicks in and with God a tsunami wave of restoration would sweep across Lira and into all of northern Uganda we couldn’t stop even if we tried.
Liz and Derek