Welcome back for part two of my David’s Kidz Uganda 2025 trip. Today, I will start with a short video I took as our first camp began in the church at Walukuba. On the left side is the registration table. That’s Dr. Moses in the blue shirt. Triage is the table next to it, then the medical & dental clinc area, next is the pharmacy area, then the prayer corner on the right where you will see two members of our intercessory team, Aneysa and Mary Ellen, flanking two of our interpreters.
We had two days “cutting our teeth” on Walukuba, finding out what worked and what didn’t. In this village, the prayer tent where people were ministered to as they waited, and also the children’s ministry, were outside. We returned to the hotel for lunch from this village, because it’s close. This is Bishop Makka’s church. He leads David’s Kidz Uganda.
Prayer was the glue that held this whole mission together. Pastors John & Kristy Camp, founders of David’s Kidz, start planning and sowing for the next trip as soon as they return… if not on the travel home! We had a prayer list several months before we left, with specifics added to our prayers as time went on. We all appreciate the prayers from our team at home! Thank you all. We felt the prayers lifting us up and enabling us.
A couple of days after arriving, we had team meetings. Our intercessory team met, and we prayed down healing and mighty acts of God. I know the other teams laced their gatherings with prayer as well.
In the camps, I began with the original schedule for the first two days, mornings in the prayer corner with the intercessory team, then helping with the children’s ministry in the afternoon.
In the prayer corner, we prayed with each person as they finished with the clinics. It was important for me to pray blessings over each one and to put the medicine that was in their hands into God’s hands. Not positive exactly, but by the last camp, we had over 100 documented salvation prayers said in the prayer corner!
In the Bible Story group, I acted out Eli in the story of God calling young Samuel. We let the children act out the story with us when we finished, so they got several times to hear the story. I shared testimony of how I hear God, Beth shared how she saw a vision of what God wanted her to do. After telling them how God wants to talk with them, we sang a few songs with motions with that group. We asked if any of them wanted to know Jesus, and several did want to.
The second day, I was in the Bible Crafts group. This group was basically a Bible story told, coloring pages and crayons passed out for them. My sponsor child, Winnie, helped me this day. She is an excellent helper! It was so good to spend time with her.
We were in Buyella Wednesday and Thursday at a Catholic church. This village was far enough away that we had boxed lunches out back of the church instead of returning to the hotel. Each day, the people who came to the camps were fed mugs of porridge for breakfast, and plates heaped with rice, covered with beans and a little bit of meat for lunch. You wouldn’t believe how open people were to the gospel with free medical care, two free meals, and care for their children!
At Buyella is where my schedule diverged. From day three on, I spent both mornings and afternoons in the prayer corner. I felt the Lord’s leading in this. It kept me out of the direct sun and protected from mosquitoes. I am sun sensitive and also allergic to malaria preventatives. Besides, there were so many people coming out of the clinic that it was all hands on deck to keep them from leaving without prayer!
Lugolole was the third village, where we spent Friday and Saturday. This was a smaller church, so the registration area and prayer corner were in this tent in front of the church. There were also two tents set up on the lawn for the Tent Ministry, where our worship team ministered to the people who were waiting for registration. We had a demon possessed woman delivered at the back of those tents!
I will share one story that sticks out to me. Winnie, my sponsor child, is the average height, build, and structure of young women in David’s Kidz. With their close cropped heads, it is difficult for me to distinguish Winnie. So, I would ask each of these girls if she knew Winnie because I’m her sponsor.
With this connection, I hugged and loved on many of these older girls. The last afternoon at Lugolole, one of these girls came running to me in the prayer area, telling me I must follow her. She took me to the school where David’s Kidz were in a classroom. The leaders were handing out backpacks to each of them, and I ended up standing outside.
Well, our youth from our team were getting ready to hand out candy to all the kids before we left. Another one of Winnie’s friends came running up to me and latched on. I held her, snuggled her under my chin, and we just stood there together. She felt feverish to me, probably had malaria (malaria is not contagious).
This was a defining moment for me. I was overwhelmed in such a good way that the tears were flowing uncontrollably. Someone standing near us said the girl was sleeping on me. What a privilege to be Jesus incarnate with this precious soul!
On the long trip back to the States, I watched The Blind Side movie, Michael Orr’s story. It’s amazing how it connected me to the kids in Africa I’d just left! I really understood Michael’s story because black culture in America is not far away from African culture.
I’ve said it before. It’s all about perspective.
Many people I worked with in Uganda want me to come back next year. I told them I won’t, because many on this team will come back. I want to leave room on the next team for new people to go so they can experience and get the vision for what David’s Kidz is doing and how we can help support them and spread the Gospel.
Winnie told me how happy she was when they called her name in church, letting her know her sponsor was here. $35.00 is a small price to pay to change a whole generation of Ugandans. I encourage you to see about sponsoring one of David’s Kidz if you don’t already. If you do, seriously think about being part of Uganda 26! They need medical and dental skills, preachers, intercessors, worship leaders, and children’s ministry. Youth do a great job connecting with the kids and young people.
http://www.davidskids.org.html
This team consists of the youngest man, 15 years old, to the oldest woman, 83 years old. No one needs to be exempt!
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