Mukama Ye Bazibwe!!

Praise the Lord! We're just finishing our 2nd day in Kampala and GOD IS GOOD!!!!!

Our flights were all flawless and we arrived in Uganda with no trouble. We all loved the "videos on demand" on the plane. After 2 days of travel and adjusting to an 8 hour time change, we are all still feeling pretty exhausted, so please pray that we would get some good rest and that the Lord would multiply our hours of sleep!

These last two days, Come Let's Dance has been showing us around, introducing us to each of their programs, and starting tomorrow, our team will be all over the place serving in so many different ways! We'll be serving widows and their children in the Katunga Slum, praying for the sick in Mulago Hospital, loving on the abandoned children at the Kids' House, pouring into women as we help them make necklaces and aprons in the sew shop, working on the farm, and sharing the love of Jesus right and left!

We have learned so much about Come Let's Dance and are so honored to be working with an organization that truly wants to not just feed the poor, but EMPOWER the people to become self-sustainable. CLD lives out the verse, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life." 0ther than young children, CLD does not feed anyone who does not work for it, even if it's the strangest most ridiculous job they can come up with. Each of their programs, the farm, the sew shop, their taxi cabs, the kids' house, every thing they do, employs Ugandans and teaches them how to get up off their rear ends and take care of themselves, while at the same time, discipling them and sharing the love of Jesus.

A few hours ago, we met with Bishop Mawa and his team of Ugandans who we are going with to Patongo IDP camp in the district of Pader in Northern Uganda. It is a forgotten camp in the worst part of Uganda that holds over 60,000 refugees leftover from the war, many of whom have never ever heard the name of Jesus. Bishop thinks that we will be the first missionaries to ever go to this camp, because most missionaries head to Gulu, which was the heart of the War and receives all the publicity. No one really goes to Pader because it is hard to reach and out of the limelight.

We have already seen that we are in an immense spiritual battle in getting there because Satan absolutely does not want the Word of Life to reach these broken and hopeless people. They are truly an unreached people group that he does not want to lose to our Mighty Jesus! The two of us and Grant just finished recording a 30 minute radio session to send to Pader with Mona and Yusef who are leaving tomorrow to do the grunt work and get everything set up. For hours, the recording system wouldn't work and when they finally fixed it the power went out. Once we recognized that it was a spiritual battle, we began praying and worshiping our King and of course, he instantly showed up, turned the power on and we began recording! It was crazy because none of us knew what we were going to say, since no one prepared us that we were going to have to do this, but the Lord gave his words to each of us and spoke powerfully to invite the people to come and hear more about him!

We ask that you do NOT fear for us in going, because fear only gives a foothold to the devil, but instead, PRAY!! Whenever you begin to feel anxious or fearful, PRAY and PRAY HARD because the Lord deserves GLORY from these people! The most redundant command in the Bible is, "Do not fear," "Do not be afraid!" We are not going to fear, but walk confidently in the anointing of the Lord and we ask that you do the same!

We are leaving for Pader on May 31st, and we return to Kampala on June 7th. Please pray for our health and safety, and more importantly, pray for God's glory to swell across that district!!

Also pray for the next 10 days in Kampala, that we would be the Lord's vessels so the people can encounter the one, true God, and that we would truly be the hands and feet of Jesus!

LOVE HARD!!!!!!!!

Zac and Kristin