September 11, 2004

  • Happiness and Joy

    Imagine about 15-20 young kids from Uganda running into CBCSD
    dancing and singing with so much life and energy. It made me want to
    get out of my seat and dance with them ... really!! The children are
    among the 1.7 million boys and girls in Uganda who have loss one or
    both of their parents as a result of AIDS or war. They are orphans,
    each with a different story, each with deep hurts and painful pasts.
    These kids were picked up by the Watoto
    child care ministries, given a home, a mother, food, and shelter; they
    have found hope in this real expression of God's love. We were blessed
    by their lively songs/dances and touched by their testimonies. Who is
    this God who is a "father to the fatherless, a defender of widows
    .." ? Who "sets the lonely in families" and "leads forth the
    prisoners with singing"? This is the God I know. This is the cause of
    great JOY for these kids who have known sorrow beyond measure.

    Our happiness depends on our happenings
    (outward circumstances), but our JOY is unchanging because of the Hope
    that we have in Christ ... our hope of glory.

Comments (3)

  • rock on! i'm gonna go see them tonight:0) it's so amazing to see how God can bring someone from a place of darkness to a place of hope and light...only God could do that...this is just a testimony of work that is being done all over the world...praise God! WHOOT!

  • hey dave! just to answer ur Q from the email... "xxx" are kisses, it's polite for us girls to do it on email, it's a girlie liverpool thing! lol..

    oh and, we are goin to watch CATS!! :giddy: when i seen the advertisements for this, i just thought of you and how u love musicals :D !!! come down to liverpool (UK) and we can watch it together with the rest of youth! hehehe...

    Take care
    Susan

  • It is amazing to think that, we in the West think we are so good in worshipping God. But to go to a third world country and to see them worship despite the hardship of life. They dance, jump and sing with so much energy, I wonder who discover the truth of God.

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