Here in Kubamitwe, lots of compassion has been put into
action! In August I returned from America where I was hanging out with Emma for
a couple months. A few hours after I got back to Uganda, the Lakeside Bible
Church and Believer’s Fellowship team arrived. The next week, the youth on the
team and CIA Uganda (my brothers, Bekah and I) built two kitchens for two
families. When we went to the second family’s house to start building, the lady
was flat out drunk. She even asked us to take a picture of her and her pig…
What? Anyway, it was quite an experience. It was particularly hard for me
because I was shocked that instead of thanking us when we went to help her, she
would greet us in a drunken stupor. Honestly, I got really angry with her. Then
I had to remember why we build kitchens and serve our community. Is it so that
we can help them? Is it so that they will know that we love them? Well, kind
of. But those aren’t the main reasons. We do CIA projects because that’s what
Jesus would do if He were in our place. He served regardless of whether or not
the people came back and thanked him. He loved to the point of death. We love
and serve our community because we want to be like Jesus. Jesus is our model,
Lord and friend. Because we love him, we will keep loving and serving even if
the people hate us. And maybe, through our love, they can come to love Jesus
too.
Since then, just this last week we built a kitchen for our
friends that live relatively close to us. They had to cook in a little hut
without walls and basically no roof. The roof was made many years ago out of
grass and at one point worked well, but over the years, has become primarily
useless. I don’t think that we have ever built a kitchen for more thankful
recipients.
Thank you all for your prayers and support. Keep praying
that God would draw people to himself through CIA’s love toward them, and that
He would be glorified in it all.
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| The Old Kitchen Next to The New |
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| Their Old Kitchen |
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