Schoolies visit and visa interview.

Just a quick update here!

School holidays have just arrived which means 'Busy Busy Busy!'
We have holiday programs, dancing groups, fellowships, Christmas time, chickens, young people popping in all the time, not to mention hopebuilders teams!

It has been good though, it means time goes fast and January and the baby will be here before we know it!

We had the Schoolies Revolution team come and visit us the other day which was great! I shared about some of the vision for YSU, and the team came and prayed for us on the block of land. They also prayed for Agnes and I in the coming weeks with the birth of our baby, which we appreciated from them.

Then the team were treated to lots of dancing performances from our young men and women.
Our tailoring girls shared about what they do, as well as offered some of their products for sale.
Then we had our boys dancing group perform a dance for the Schoolies.

My good friend Solomon also shared a message about following Christ at all costs, and how in the end we never really make a sacrifice because of what Christ has offered us in Eternal life.

Solomon also shared some of his personal testimony which I wrote about here:
http://lukev-uganda.blogspot.ug/2015/07/how-much-would-you-give-up.html

Afterwards all of the schoolies got up and tried some of their own dance moves, much to the amusement and excitement of the Ugandan youth.

The Ugandan youth also got to pray for the schoolies and bless them as well.
Usually we have always done it the other way around ... where the teams come and give a message and pray for the Ugandans and come to bless them!
But I have had a bit of change of thought on how things can be done, mainly because of a great book I have read called 'When helping hurts'.
Instead of having the foreigners always come and do everything to bless the locals, this book suggested flipping that on it's head.
So even though the Ugandan youth had no performance, no prayers or no message given to them to bless them, I believe they felt more empowered by being the ones who had something to offer to the 'Muzungus'.

When I had explained to the Ugandan youth I'd like to do it this way, they were so excited .... it made them feel very valuable!

Agnes and I will also be travelling to Kampala on Monday afternoon so we can go for an interview early Tuesday morning.
The interview is in regards to Agnes' partner visa to Australia. We have no idea what the interview will include, but we appreciate your prayers ... especially because right now it is a difficult time for Agnes to travel with her very large stomach, and her feeling rather sick the last few weeks (although the large stomach is the best proof we can provide of a "ongoing relationship")

We pray it goes smoothly and that this will help in granting Agnes access to be able to live in Australia when ever we please.

We thank everyone again for their love and support.

You can check out our young guys dancing for the Schoolies here:

https://vimeo.com/147750348