Let the Great Week Begin

arly Monday morning I awoke with a terrible stomach bug…that’s the moment I knew God had something big in store and someone wanted me to have nothing to do with it. I went anyway…taking it easy though.
We were greeted once again by the most beautiful children you could ever lay eyes on…they escorted us down the stairs and into the church. They were shoved back as we made our way to the front where the women had set aside chairs off to the side for us to sit in, but never loosing sight of us. The kids kept their eyes locked on us as we listened to the first speaker….we would look back and make faces as often as we could. Once worship began we could no longer contain ourselves…several of us got up and made our way to the back to sing songs to our Jesus with little ones by our side!
Oh to worship like a child, in Uganda even the adults do:)

(these two hung out with us all week)



(playing peek a boo...with a little one across the room)

My friend Shannon and I decided we would stay in the back with the young ones while the next teacher got up…thinking that might keep them quiet and less distracting…we were wrong. Oh I am so glad I did not miss that first day….they made circles around us. They touched our hands, our elbows, our earrings, our hair. They were fascinated by the smallest things we did. Silly hand shakes, funny faces, they loved it all. I kept thinking to myself….so this is how we will be in heaven! Sitting at the feet of God wanting to touch him, in awe and wonder! Oh to have faith like a child!! To love unconditionally, to forgive quickly, to believe our father can do no wrong, to be fascinated by everything the father does!!!


As we sat there I began to witness the mothers and women of the church reprimanding the children for being too loud. They would poke them with a stick or shoosh them, if a child began to cry the oldest sibling would have to take the child outside….my heart broke for the young ones; how they were at times a burden, a distraction, an inconvenience. God began to stir something in my heart that I couldn’t let go of.

Shannon and I decided there was no way we could not do something with the children so we decided that from then on we would do a small children’s program once a day!!