This morning we got up early and walked with Catherine, one of our volunteer friends, to the nearby Kampala International University. Arriving on the campus, which was spotted with litter from some concert last night, we mounted numerous concrete stairs, and found ourselves in a large open room. The pews were student desks, the kind that the small table folds down on your lab to write.
At about 7:55am, the room probably held 45 students and they were already beginning to sing. There were a number of songs in English which was a tremendous blessing for us and then they had two specials...one a dance group and the second a vocal choir. Albeit we chuckled to ourselves about the dance group, the attitude of the entire service was worshipful and Pastor Kenneth spoke with conviction and intensity. By the end of the service at about 10:30, approximately 700 young people had filled the room.
There are many questions in our hearts about how to love Jesus in Africa and how to train and teach people to love Jesus. But after a morning like this, you wonder if maybe we are the ones who stand in need of the teaching. We get to practice soon as tomorrow morning we wake up to start Swahili classes...pray that we will have "teachable" hearts.
Thank you for your prayers and love. His beauty is a source of great joy.
Happy Sabbath,
Billy & Joanna Coppedge
3 comments:
We will be praying for you as you start these classes-you already have teachable hearts, but we will pray for that too. What a wonderful service and introduction to Africa! Be encouraged!
Friends, the prayers are going up for you. I'm loving the blog and I love hearing everything that's going on with you. Have fun learning Swahili! LOve YOU!!!
Jessie
How are the swahili classes going?
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