hug at least 3 people around you

This is what the pastor at Watoto Church said for the “meet and greet.” It wasn’t your ordinary “say hi to the person next to you” or “greet your neighbor.” Now that’s showing some brotherly affection. It doesn’t matter if you’re white or black, American or Ugandan; they showed the love towards each other that the body of Christ should. And did I ever mention that I love hugs? 

Inside Watoto Church

Watoto Church is where we went to church on Sunday and has several locations throughout Uganda. And get this, the founders of this church once lived in Virginia Beach! How crazy is that?! The Holy Spirit was MOVIN’ during the services with everyone swaying and clapping and singing. It was all in English too! There was no such thing as a personal bubble, we were all packed in there shoulder-to-shoulder like sardines. Being a part of these services, I couldn’t help but think that a church like this makes so many American churches look dead. Great worship, great teaching, great fellowship. The link to Watoto’s site is HERE. You’ll hear more about Watoto and what it’s doing for God’s kingdom later.

The first Sunday that we were at Watoto, the church was sending the children’s choir to the US for 6 months. They brought all the kids to the front and the whole church prayed for them to send them off. I never really realized before that other countries actually send missionaries to the US, it’s not just the US sending missionaries to other countries. The US needs Jesus just as much as the rest of the world. Anyway, we actually got to meet the children’s choir after the service. Right now, they are actually in Virginia. This is also the same children’s choir that sang in Chris Tomlin’s CD “Hello Love.” Cool huh?

So that was church. The next couple posts will be stories about the street boys and the boys in the home. As I mentioned before, every day that we were with the street boys, we gave them a small meal and we gave them one of the things we had collected and brought over with us. We had already given them Cliff bars, so here was what we gave them the other days:

Monday- Bibles

Tuesday-Toothbrushes and toothpaste

Wednesday- Silly bands

Thursday- Tshirts

Friday- Notes of encouragement

Monday- Flip flops

I probably won't go day by day because honestly I could write a novel. Stay tuned!