People RUN to accept Christ!

 

On our third day of clinics in June, we went to Kamake. We held the clinic in a large government building and saw 372 patients! It was market day in the village and there were hunreds of people all around. 202 of those 372 patients accepted Christ, but when it was time to close, there were still MANY people around (Some of the school kids had even skipped school and showed up. They had heard there were "mzungu" people there and they wanted to see us.) As we closed, I shared the Gospel with those standing around and 36 more people accepted Christ. That afternoon we held our first Crusade (began with 1 + hours of singing and dancing by our faithful Praise Team in the BLAZING sun). There were so many curious children around that I tried a "congo line"/Follow the Leader to try to keep them away from Virginia who was trying to just breathe in the oppressive heat. That didn't work for long, so we finally had to retreat to the shade of the van. With doors open, we were still the center of attention, even to the point of curious children touching my white skin & potruding veins to see how this "mzungu" even felt different. At the Crusade that night, 5 people came forward at the invitation. The Pastors said there were many more “private” decisions as the people are "shy" to make that public profession of faith. The next night, Hugh was the preacher and the huge crowd was back again. Adults hang back because the music is LOUD and there was some shade under the shelters of the marketplace. When he gave the invitaton, the Ugandan Pastors said they had never seen such a phenomenon - the people came RUNNING to the platform to give their lives to Christ. So much for SHY!!! As we had just successfully planted a church, we made arrangements to rent a shop space for 6 months for $20 a month.

The first picture is a picture of the rented place/"church". Agnatius called from Uganda the next week to say that over 120 people had shown up for church and the place was too small! But that's all we have at the moment. When we returned in Nov. we went by Kameke to pick up people for baptism and I snapped a photo of the "meeting place". Ladies, guess who sits inside in the shade and who overflows to the outside? Yeah, you're right!