On The Road Again

I usually don't schedule my travel this close together but tomorrow I head to Uganda, Africa. In the 70's Uganda had a dictator named Idi Amin. Idi Amin killed 300,000 Ugandans over a 7 year period. It was a brutal regime. One of his generals was a young man named Joseph Kona. After Amin was exiled Joseph Kona became very active as a rebel. His specialty was to kidnap little boys around the age of 7 or 8 years old. Kona would force them to murder someone with a machete within 48 hours of their capture. He has amassed a small army of teenagers who kill without hesitation and without remorse. I am going to Uganda to visit an orphanage that rescues little boys and girls from Joseph Kona. There is something wildly wonderful about being a part of a faith that is built on this movement of incarnation and redemption. The 3-part movement of incarnation is to give up, go to, and be with. It is the movement of Jesus our Lord. There is no greater movement of love the world has ever seen. It is still true as a group of us will leave the comfort and relative safety of America to go to Uganda to be with children who are caught in an evil greater than they. Redemption is the act of saving someone at a cost to yourself for the sake of love. It is the movement of all who want to imitate Jesus. So, a little less than a week after returning from Indonesia, I will pack up and leave home again. That is not exactly true. Jesus said,"Whoever gives up houses or farms or family for my sake will receive a hundred times as much in return both in this life and the life to come". The people running the orphanage are part of the family of God. That means I go to visit some brothers and sisters I have never met. That is always exciting. The best thing is that by the time I leave Uganda I will have a home there. I have yet to go anywhere in the world to visit fellow followers of Christ and not been welcomed as a family member and told that if I ever return I will always have a place. I have more homes than you can shake a stick at. If you remember please pray for us. Pray we will be an encouragement to the ones doing the real work. And pray for the precious children who are in the process of being healed by the love of a Savior who calls people from halfway around the world to care for them in His name.