Less Than a Week Away

We are supposed to be leaving for Uganda on Monday, May 9^th.   I say supposed to because of some recent events in Kampala, where we would be spending all of our time.  For those of you that follow international news you may have seen that Kampala was recently getting some attention.  It all started a couple of weeks ago when some opposition leaders decided to start peaceful protests over the cost of gas and food. They started “Walk to Work” and on every Monday and Thursday people would, you guessed it, walk to work.  Well in these peaceful protest there was one man in particular who seemed to be causing a little more trouble than the police thought he should.  In the last 2 weeks this opposition leader has been arrested 4 times.  One of the arrests was video taped and made it all over the news.  The opposition now has been responding also to the way their leader was being treated when arrested.  This last Friday there were several violent riots around Kampala due to the treatment of the opposition leader, the police and military shot rubber bullets and live fire, as well as tear gas and pepper spray,  sadly people were killed.

As a result we are making every effort to figure out what is going on in Kampala.   At this time we have spoken to our friends at the AIM regional office that live and work in Kampala.  We have also spoken to Micah, the pastor of the church we partner with.  They all agree that the media is not helping as they are showing things that cause an increase in emotion.  All of what we have heard from them is inconclusive; no one knows what is going to happen,  nothing could happen  or  the unthinkable could happen.  We wait with many Ugandans to see what happens tomorrow; President Museveni is supposed to meet with the opposition leaders.  If they do meet many people think that there will not be any further protests or disruptions.  If they do not meet then there is uncertainty.    

So we wait and pray for the people in Uganda, and for Yahweh’s will.  We groan because the kingdom of God is not fully here yet and we witness the pains of evil in this world.  Please join us in prayer for Uganda.

This is our team of 16:

 

We also have some understandable nervous parents and a few students.  We will not be leaving for Uganda next week if we know that it is not the Lord’s desire for us.  We seek out wisdom.