Thoughts from Nancy

Thank you Nancy for sharing from your heart:

Nancy’s musings: I fell in love with the incredible people of Uganda! They are humble, hardworking, entrepreneurial and very warm. The entire team and partners of Come Let’s Dance (CLD) where an expression of Christ activated in their community-we praise God for this wonderful work he has begun! My heart was really touched by the women of the slums and their micro businesses were so inspiring. It is only through the love of Christ that they can live with so little and be filled with such joy! I could see what a tremendous impact the opportunity to make a living with a very small loan produced. The slum church and pastor Winford’s testimony of being delivered from a life of crime and AIDS to go on to care for the prostitutes and homeless kids of his community also touched me deeply. They are so blessed by knowing God cares for the poor, sick, widow and orphans and shows it through bringing others to express His care… this is the work that Shane, Jeremy, Julie, Torrey, Rachael through the hospitals and the entire CLD team is involved with - it really exemplifies putting hands and feet to faith. Watching the CLD girls organize and hold their first women’s conference and see hundreds attend, seek counseling, participate in crafts and enjoy all the speaker,…this was also a real highlight! The team showed they were really eager to share the fullness of Christ in their lives with other sisters. I hope to visit this event again in future years and am already praising God for the growth they are sure to experience as they develop leaders and ministries. Visiting the island school was an eye opener and very touching. It’s still hard to believe that some children in the world are deprived of an education because of location, but the Island is in the world’s second largest lake (Victoria) is remote! What a joy to see the families and children gather to thank God for the land, buildings and teachers for a school for their young children. We pray that funding will be secured for older kids as the concern for their schooling was spoken of, but not able to be met. It was very moving to hear the beautiful young children sing their school & national anthems. I believe some of our friends from CA will one day go there to teach and share the good news-praise God for His provision!