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Monthly Archives: June 2014

Father’s Day Poem from Olivia
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Father’s Day Poem from Olivia

June 28, 2014 Olivia Su Leave a comment

Through out the years,

You’ve always been here.

Through thick and through thin,

Even when the ground was full of pins .

Through out the years,

You’ve always been here.

When the water pipe broke,

And when Help’s needed with work. Continue reading Father’s Day Poem from Olivia →

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“F**CK’IN PADDLE!” “The hardest part of t “F**CK’IN PADDLE!”

“The hardest part of the job is the language. In the early days I offended a lot of people. You have to understand, back in 1997, only the wildest, toughest people came to Uganda as tourists. So when I told them to paddle harder, they told me to say “F**CK’IN PADDLE!” Latter on, missionaries started to come and I told them to “F**CK’IN PADDLE!”, but instead of laughing they all grew quiet. A few braver ones would tell me, “Juma, that’s not a very nice word to say. It’s probably better to not use it.” But then sometimes after rafting, I would ask people, “How did yo enjoy it?”. They would look at me and say, “Dude, that was “F**ck’in awwsome!”. I was so confused—he put the word with something good!

By far, this has been the hardest word for me to learn😆
(2/2) “After that I came every Wednesday to pray (2/2) “After that I came every Wednesday to pray and talk with the witch doctor and his family. But they continued to do witch craft. I was discouraged. It doesn’t seem like their lives were changing. Finally I asked them, “Why are you still doing witch craft?”
“We don’t have God’s word. We can’t read and study it.”
Immediately I went into town and brought two bibles. One for him and his wife and the other for his kids. But I didn’t think they will change. In my heart I thought, “This will be my last time here.” Because I was discouraged, I came late. As I neared his house, I heard someone say, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” It was Mathew 7! The witch doctor was reading Mathew to a group of people in front of his house. It hit me in the heart. That passage was for me. I have judged and I have judged wrongly. I thought these people will not change, but it is God who changes hearts. These customers came to ask the witch doctor for help and he has started to read the Bible to them! That’s when I knew I had to do discipleship and I started to hangout with all the bad guys—the people in the ghetto, prostitutes, and witch doctors.”
(1/2) “I didn’t know what’s next. My dream s (1/2) “I didn’t know what’s next. My dream since childhood was to be a banker and finally after all these years I have my dream job, a wife, and a beautiful family. But obedience is the the best form form worship and I knew God told me to leave the bank. When I left, I used my pension to pay off my loans, for the car and everything else. I left with nothing. 

Then I just started just walking on the streets and praying. I was walking and walking. Then I heard a voice—“Go there”. I jumped. I looked around and didn’t see anyone. Then I knew it was God. I turned into the street and came in front of a witch doctor’s home. Ahh, does God want me to talk with the witch doctor? But I was scared. I never use to come to places like this. What will people think of me? What if he calls out a demon? I sat right outside his house and waited. He came out after a little while.
“How can I help you, my son?”
“God has sent me to you.”
“To me?”
“Yes, sir.”
“I came to tell you that God loves you very much. I know this because I was out walking and God told me to come here to meet you.”
“Tobista! Tobista!!”
I thought maybe he was calling a demon, but out came his wife.

“Come Tobista. Sit down, sit down, and listen to this man. He has come to tell us something very important.”

I didn’t tell them anything special, I just told them, “Jesus loves you. He has never loved anyone like He loves you. I was walking in the road and I heard a voice telling me to come here. So I come here to tell you Jesus loves you. I don’t know whether you would like to accept this a Jesus who has told me to come here?

“Yes of course! No one has ever come to tell us this before. Now that you have come we must believe.”
(2/2) “The man told me that tomorrow I should go (2/2) “The man told me that tomorrow I should go this bar and I will meet this prostitute. He told me her name. Next day I went to the bar with my friends and sat in a corner. Two prostitutes came to join us. 
“Do you know this prostitute?” I told them the name. 
“I don’t know this person. Why are you looking for her?”
“I have something I want to tell her.”

She left and then came back again. She was the boss of the place. 
“What is it that you want to tell her? You can tell me and I will tell her.”
“No, I must tell her myself.”
More time passed and no one showed up so I got ready to leave. She left to go up stairs to look for someone, but she came back with just herself.
“She is not here. Tell me, what is it that you wanted to tell her?”
I gave up, “I just wanted to tell her that God loves her.”
“Why would you want to tell that to someone you don’t know?”
“Because a stranger told me that God loves me and I prayed that God would show me a sign. He told me to come find her.”
She started to cry. “I am the person you are looking for.”
I didn’t know what to do. I just stood there watching her cry. This is the first godly thing I’ve done. This is my first sign, my first miracle. After that I couldn’t go back to the way I lived before.”
(1/2) “Everything changed the day he pointed the (1/2) “Everything changed the day he pointed the gun at me. My parents use to tell me God loves me. I was a Christian but my life was not like that. I was in the gang. I danced in bars. I did drugs. I thought that as long as I had my friends I would be okay. But that day when the police came, I realized I had no excuse. I thought that people steal because they are hungry. People rob others because they have been robbed. But with the gun pointing at me, this close, I knew I was wrong. I am responsible for the things that I do.That day God saved me and I knew I had to change.”
“Talk to your daddy, your big big daddy.” “ “Talk to your daddy, your big big daddy.”

“My big daddy is my father in heaven. Jesus changed everything for me. I use to be on the streets, and in the bars singing for the ladies. But now I sing for Jesus. My dream is to become a singer and let people in all the nations hear my songs.”
“ Her name is Martha, a friend of Jesus.” “ “ Her name is Martha, a friend of Jesus.”

“She was born premature at 25 weeks. There was 8 other premature babies in the hospital, but she was the only one that survived. “You should name her Miracle!”, “You should name her Gift!”, people told me. But no, I named her Martha, because she was a friend of Jesus. 

I love my daughter. She is a friend of Jesus.
“I’m thankful to be alive.” We went around “I’m thankful to be alive.”

We went around the circle each listing one thing we were thankful for. 
“I’m thankful to be alive.”
“I’m thankful to be alive and my family is alive too.”
“I’m thankful to be alive and you guys can come visit.”
“I’m thankful to be alive...”

At first I thought they were just copying each other. And then I realized it is I who have been taking being alive for granted. Life in the ghetto is hard. There is not enough food, not enough space, not enough money and too many troubles. Yet they face it with bright smiles, they don’t give up meeting together and meeting each other’s needs. Rain or shine, they are family. Today, they are thankful to be alive. I am too.
“What tools do you use at home to gather people “What tools do you use at home to gather people for Christ?”

Here I am looking at someone who has not finished high school, living in the ghettos, and does not know where his next meal where come from. But he goes to two different ghettos everyday to teach more than 100 kids how to dance. 

“I did a lot of bad things growing up. I don’t want these kids to grow up doing the mistakes and bad things I did, so I teach them how to dance. What tools do you use at home to gather people for Christ?”

I didn’t know how to answer him but I know now that I am without excuse.
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  1. “We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think.”
    – Sir Ernest Rutherford (Nobel Prize Winner 1908)

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  2. Today Nathan wrote an essay about his life in the village. This was one of the sentence he wrote: 我们平常散步的地方是高山野岭,在那里大自然是大家的厕所。I couldn’t stop laughing.

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