New Team In Gulu

Hello friends of VOHA and the Acholi people! This past Monday a team from Lake Hills Church in Austin, TX headed back to Gulu with VOHA. Please pray for protection of the team as they seek to do God's will on this trip and not their own. Pray that they will be still enough to see those that he has called to meet them along the way. 2 Cor. 2:15 says "To God we are the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing" Pray that they will walk humbly with our God so that the believers will be encouraged and the lost will be repulsed by the smell of death and attracted to the sweet aroma of Christ in us our hope of Glory. Here is a picture of those who God chose for this trip (with the exception of Abby Mayfield). Please continue to read below for our first update of our travels.

We want everyone who is following this blog to know that, by God’s providence and power, the entire mission team made it safely to Gulu, where we have scarfed down a delicious dinner of “chips” and fresh avocado and are looking forward to a night of much-needed rest here at Jo Jo’s Palace. But there’s much more to tell...

On Monday morning, we set off from Austin to Newark, and from there flew overnight to Brussels, Belgium. Spirits were high and anticipation was palpable as we each dwelt on what God is to going to do in and through us over the next couple weeks in Uganda. (For anyone who is interested, we ran into Nascar driver Jeff Gordon in the Brussels airport, who happens to be an incredible man of God. It was so cool to watch members of the team lay hands on him and pray for his upcoming hospital work in Rwanda. The body of Christ truly is everywhere.) Once we completed the final leg of the trip to Entebbe, we found some rest at the Banana Village before we made the eight-hour drive to Gulu early this Wednesday morning. The drive was really something. Modest thatched huts and dilapidated shacks were interspersed with crumbling remnants of colonial structures and aged but majestic chapels. We waved to countless children whose radiant smiles and genuine excitement filled us with joy at the knowledge that soon we would be able to personally hug and minister to children such as these in the days ahead of us. The profusion of color and activity was impossible to miss. The land itself could not have been more green or wild or lush; it was truly a frenzy of foliage. We even stopped at some awe-inspiring Nile River rapids at the Katumba Falls, whose raw, surging power plainly revealed God’s omnipotence. Tony, our beloved contact with VOHA, has greeted us warmly and filled us in with more of the week’s schedule, and his selfless heart and genuine faith have blessed us immensely. Again, we are safe and in good spirits, and hour by hour we are surrendering ourselves to God’s will. If you feel led to, please pray that we would rely totally on God’s Spirit in the coming days and that the eyes of our hearts would be wide open to His goodness and love.