Call Confirmed

I received confirmation today from the director at the orphanage in Uganda that I am welcome to come and serve there in June and July 2014!!  It's like yet again, God comes through and lets me know I'm on the right track.  I was thinking on my drive home last night how great it would be to have received confirmation on my trip so that I could speak to the churches about it while I'm at home visiting, and hallelujah it came!  This is going to be my first taste of mission work and I've already heard that if I go, I may never come back (as in I won't want to leave not that I'm going to get killed in the field ha).  I would be okay with that.  A life where my only real job is to spread the word and light and love of Christ with others through service and compassion?  Yes please.

I will be giving my conversion testimony in three churches tomorrow to let them all know my intention in going to Uganda.  I (and my dear darling pastor) believe that in order to have full understanding of the call, I need to explain where I was six months ago versus where I am now.  I don't mind giving my testimony to people who don't know me very well, but when I stand up and tell my family that I "left the church" for eight years, I think my older aunties might just have a stroke right there in their pew.  Yikes.  I was pretty good at pretending to be Christian for, ya know, my whole life.

In other, sadder news, a member of our community passed away yesterday.  He was a pastor for many years and preached at our church revival several times that I can remember from my childhood.  People all over this city talk about how good of a preacher he was.  When he started preaching, the room would catch on fire.  People would cry and holler "Amen!" and you know that they were feeling the Spirit.  I am sad that I will never hear him preach now that I know Christ.  My heart breaks for his family, his mother and father, his wife, his children -- my heart just absolutely hurts for them because he was such a ray of sunshine in everyone's life.  BUT I know that he is standing in awe and amazement at the wonder of God and Jesus right now in Heaven and I am comforted knowing that he is experiencing a happiness that is unknown on the earth.  He was a man who truly loved the Lord and it shown in every thing that he did.  He will be greatly missed.

Tomorrow is my favorite day of the week!  I'm so happy to be home to worship with my home church and attend Bible study with my YAMs via real life instead of skype!