The smiles keep coming! Depositing love within the hearts of the students at God’s Plan Nursery and Primary School is producing a huge harvest of hope. Not only do the students and community experience the excitement of development, but Rebecca and her team have a great sense of fulfillment. You know the kind I mean? The kind where you know you are in the right place doing the right thing at the right time and God is very pleased with you! Thank kind!
Just look at the smile on that beautiful face above!
Here’s what caused this celebration …
Yesterday, the school desks were delivered to the school. Five of Rebecca’s on-the-ground team members helped load, deliver, and unload 50 desks at the school.
As you can see, these desks were crafted by carpenters outdoors, just like how most work is done in Uganda. All of those desks had to be loaded into a lorry and transported to the school.
What I love about the theme of this day was the boundless joy and happiness these six young adults were having.
Giving is part of God’s nature. He manifested that nature in the greatest gift of all time when He sent His Son to earth to remedy our sin problem and to bring us back into His eternal family. When we are born again we receive His nature and it’s normal for us to be givers as well. Getting to be part of the team that actually brought these desks on-site is an unbelievable joy.
Loading, unloading, sweating, laughing … bringing more evidence to the school that God truly remembers them and is making sure they can’t miss His love for them.
God specializes in restoration. He takes what is and transforms it into what it could be. The people who are followers of Jesus experience this reality firsthand. The thumbnail sketch of transformation is vividly illustrated in the experience Ezekiel had with God in Ezekiel 37. God told Ezekiel to prophesy to a valley of dry borns he saw in a vision. Ezekiel said, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you shall come to life.”
As I continue to get updates from Rebecca about this school in the community of Kisalanda I see fresh life happening. God is breathing new life into this community. Things are coming together. Soon new toilets will be constructed for the school and plans are being made to dig a well for safe drinking water.
I am so excited when I see someone enter a community and begin to ask God, “Can these bones live?” Not everyone even sees the needs. Fewer see the people behind the physical needs. Truthfully, projects come easier to most people than relationships.
So, when we see the big smiles on the faces of these young adults we applaud them. God has chosen them for such a time as this. And, they are happy to simply fulfill His calling to speak life into seemingly dead situations.
Your face is not in this photo on the right, but you ARE a big part of this team. Your prayers, encouragement, and financial support are just as important to God as the work of the people who are on the ground in Northern Uganda. Not only does that put a smile on our faces … but God is smiling as well.