Joining the battle: "You will battle for everything." These words are from a missionary who has been serving the Lord for several years in Jinja, Uganda. Jennifer Kragt and I will be leaving to join this battle on April 5th. We have been fundraising and battling in prayer for about a year now and are greatly anticipating our departure. We are standing on the edge looking out over the next two years. Are we ready to join the battle? The greatness and the vastness that lies before us seems overwhelming, yet overflowing with such potential. It looks so beautiful, sounds so nice, 'I'm going to be a missionary to Uganda.' But when it comes right down to it, we will experience much suffering, there will be disease and death, floods and famine, we will be lied to, stolen from, and frustrated with having to fight many hard battles . However, God is doing a work in the hearts of the people, He is bringing healing and restoration, He is doing a new thing, He is able and willing. And in this time I will learn what it means to cling to Him in utter desperation (whether I'm ready for that or not).
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Make it home. In both sense of the phrase.
Make Soroti home. Settle in; claim it as your own. Become one of the members of that community. Invest in the future of that place. Consider yourself a local.
But also, make it back home. Remember that you have family and friends in this hemisphere that love you and want to see you return occasionally. We are supporting you and believe that we have made a good investment in a people we have not met. But our biggest investment is in you, your growth, your connection to God. And we want you to come back and share your stories and let us weep and laugh and pray with you. We will all miss you, but the missing is softened by the knowledge that you are walking the road God has paved for you and that this road does pass by our doors occasionally.
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