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Monday, February 19, 2007

Visits in Kampala





It's been a very rich couple of days. Yesterday, being Sunday, we visited a number of churchs with amazingly diverse styles. A few of us attended Namirembe Cathedral, which is very close to the guest-house. This service was a realtively traditional anglican service, but clearly forward-looking, with time for testimony and a lively time of praise singing at the start. Others went to a church and were very warmly welcomed, heloing lead the Sunday School and enjoying the worship together with the joyful community there. Lastly, we went to the Miracle Centre Cathedral - an extraordinary contrast - huge, with the most vibrant worship-leading, colourful, energetic choirs and seating capacity of 10,000!

Today we joined in Morning Prayer with the ladies at the Crisis Pregnancy Centre. This was truly humbling as they told us some of their stories. George led us in singing and praying for them. This afternoon a representative of Christian Aid took us to see a school in a poor part of the city. The children were adorable, eagerly learning in a shabbily built hut, from dedicated teachers but again, giving us a huge, warm welcome.

This city is a place of incredible contrasts and it is a true privilege to encounter so much and have the luxury of reflecting on it.

We value your comments and encouragement, Thank you.

Posted by Brentry Cohort at 4:29 pm

1 comment:

Uganda said...

Just to say thank you for the updates, and keep up the good work.
Nice to see Hannah making use of herself with the children.
Lots of love, Angelina

10:41 am

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