Sarah

In Kampala we minister to a woman who is named Sarah. Sarah lives in one of the slums. She takes care of 6 kids and I am honestly not sure which ones are hers or the neighbors or relatives; it is so hard to tell here with so many children roaming around. Their home is a one-room, mud walled, tin roof home. She has been amazing. When we first got to meet her she was so happy to see us. It was so awesome to see such happiness just because we came to see her. We made it very clear, when I say we I mean Irene our translator, that we were there to serve her and for no other reason. And so for the past two months on Wednesdays we have been going to Sarah’s home and serving her in different ways. Mostly washing her clothes and dishes, and it has been going amazing. Even though we don’t speak the same language or understand each other at all when talk it has been great. We gave her a Bible a few weeks ago and she had never even owned a bible she had tears in her eyes when she took it from us she was so excited! And so the last couple of weeks have just been amazing being around her and seeing how much she has grown. This past Wednesday when we normally give a word but this time she wanted to share some scripture with us and give us some truth to chew on. I was so excited to hear what she had to say because we knew that God had been working in her heart and in her life. She read the first 2 verses of psalm 122.  While I was reading the verse in English, Sarah was reading it in Luganda. Oh, and a side note she could barely read when we first gave her the bible and now she was reading much better, and I believe the only way that was possible was through Gods love and grace. He was teaching her how to read with His Word. But the Psalm is titled “Let us go to the house of the Lord” and I was not entirely sure where she was going to go with this message but it was amazing. She shared about how she knows and is happy about having community. She was happy that we were there, she is happy about attending womens group, she is happy about her new friends she is making because of what God is doing in her life. She said that she knows that she needs the community and has it because of the faith that she has in God. It was amazing to hear this come from her, just weeks before she could not really read the bible we had given her, but she told us and promised us that she was going to work to read it and practice reading it, and she did. Because of God working in her life she is now able to read better, and get the truth from His Word. It was just so amazing to see this woman that had not even really understood God a couple months ago and now because of what God is doing through His Spirit she is now growing closer to Him and worshiping Him. And I think the most encouraging part is that she knows it is because of her faith and no other reason that she is able to read and tell us a lesson from the Bible. She is so encouraging and it is so great to see her grow every week when we go back! It's really relationships with Ugandans like this that are going to make going back to the States so difficult. But I am fully believing that God is going to keep her in community and keep her in His hands.