Sunday, September 25, 2005

Greetings from Kampala. How are you all doing? I am doing really good. Last night was quite interesting. We lost power 3 times. And our generator ran out of gas. I got to experience reading by candle light. Good thing that the power came back on, because those candles are hard on the eyes. Anyways, I had a really good morning here. I went back to the same church as last week. The people were really friendly and talking to me. I was asked several times if I was Lynn's sister. Lynn is the wife of the Pastor for Calvary Chapel. I guess since I came to church with them and her mom arrived for a visit the same week I did, and since Lynn's mom has blue eyes and blond hair, they assume that I'm her son. It was quite funny actually. We also had communion today. That was very encouraging. God is so good. Some people might be wondering what the church service is like. Well, we start off with about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes of singing. First several praise songs, where the people clap to the beat. There is a small band consisting of one acoustic guitar, one bass guitar, and bongo drums. There also is a small choir who leads the singing. Then we sing several worship songs, where the people don't clap. The songs are what you hear on Praise 106.5 or other Christian radio stations. This morning we sang Every move I make, Jesus You are my King (Amazing Love) and a couple that were in Lugandan (the local dialect). The Pastor (whose house I live in) then preaches for about 45 minutes to an hour. Today's service lasted 2 hours because we also had communion between the singing and the sermon. The sermon was on Revelation 13. The application was really good again, about the false prophets who will arise and how we have to try the spirits to see whether they are of God. I really enjoy Pastor Brian's sermons. He is a very simple preacher (who really likes John MacArthur). I pray you have a good Sunday as well. God bless.

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