It's ok if you don't believe it at first. I didn't either. In fact, I sat for about a month just not believing it. (I sat for the next month procrastinating a blog post... but I digress...)
Before I go too much further, I would like to clarify that I'm just going back for a few weeks! A brief but wonderful 14 days. Due to my lack of blogging, a few people thought I was just picking up my bags and out the door for good. But... I have an actual job now that I can't quite just leave at the drop of a hat (Unless Jesus asked me to. Of course I would then.)
Here's the summary: (aka what you're probably curious about)
February 1-10 - First of all, I am joining Engineering Ministries International (EMI) on a short term project trip. We will be doing the design and site master planning for a secondary school for Amazima, in Jinja. This is the ministry started by Katie Davis (you may have read the book Kisses from Katie). I was originally meant to go on this project trip during my 6 month internship, but it was delayed. Now I get a second chance! I will spend time helping out the designers with some of my computer software skills (AutoCAD, Sketchup, and the like) and spend some time doing construction planning. Hopefully I'll be able to get around town and get some pricing and get to know some local suppliers in Jinja, and put together some initial cost estimates. The amazing part about this trip through EMI is that it is almost fully funded. I had some support leftover from my internship... so THANK YOU! You have made this second missionary journey to Uganda a wildly unimaginable possibility for me. Dear supporters, thank you!
February 10-13 - The second part of my journey is much less structured, but it will be heavily focused on time with Doors Ministries, back in my stomping grounds of Kampala. If you followed my blog before, you know that Doors Ministries was started by some disciples of the Lord who saw the need for Ugandan street boys to be discipled in a safe and loving home. The uncles and aunties of Doors Ministries branched out from there to start a school in the nearby slum (to help prevent the cycle of kids becoming street kids), and started a women's ministry to reach out to the single mothers in their community. I am paying for the difference in my trip cost, and asking that if you wish to support me, please donate to Doors Ministries. You can donate through the paypal link on their blog:
http://hispicketfence.blogspot.com/
Or by mailing a check to their office:
Doors Ministries
282 Lee Road
Cottontown, TN 37048
Just mention my name in the donation comments, or on the memo line and I'll find out about it!
I didn't believe my God was this good. When I first found out about the opportunity to return to Uganda this soon, I was shocked and overjoyed and then immediately skeptical. This seems too good to be true. There is an almost all-expense paid trip back to Uganda. I'll get to help out with construction planning for a project I already feel passionately about. I'll have the chance to see almost all of the Ugandan and Uganda missionary faces I love so much. And I have plenty of vacation days and the blessing of my boss to go. That MUST be too good to be true. I left an invitation email sitting in my inbox for weeks, untouched. And then a friend asked me, "Why wouldn't you go?" My only real answer was, "It seems too good; too perfect." Translation: I don't think my God is good. I (yet again) don't trust that he has good for me. But oh how He does! He has kisses waiting for me in Uganda. He is sweet, loving, kind, and so good. So good to me.
Remember today how good He is. Read about it in His word, or reflect on it in your life, or cling to that promise even if it doesn't feel true right now.
More updates to come...most notably I have to tell you about who else is coming to Uganda with me! Teaser alert!
Thanks for your love and support!
SForbes
(Sorry for the lack of pictures...Color me lazy.)
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