What an amazing day we had today!
Started off with a half day of hard work, which saw another course of bricks laid, the painting completed on House 7, as well as the rendering team smashing out the last of the mud/poop mixture on House 8. After a quick lunch at Suubi House we cleaned up, donned our HopeBuilders shirts and headed towards the Jinja Prisons.
5 of the team were handpicked to visit the Men's Prison whilst the remainder of the team spent the afternoon at the Women's Prison. The women were so welcoming! Singing and dancing praises to God with such passion before we introduced ourselves with a word of encouragement from the Word. Afterwards we were invited to pray and share with the women in small groups. I had the privilege of praying for Jennifer, Sarah and Josephine which was heartbreaking but so encouraging at the same time. These women were so far from their families, many of whom didn't even visit their incarcerated mothers, sisters, and daughters. Just the fact that we were willing to love on them by visiting and showing that we wanted to spend time with them really touched their hearts, as it did mine.
God has a way of surprising us with His methods of reaching out to His children. Today we encouraged these men and women, but we went away just as encouraged that God is working in their lives as well as ours.
Bring on Friday!
Check out the photos below and see that we relax and eat like kings at Suubi House too!!!
Started off with a half day of hard work, which saw another course of bricks laid, the painting completed on House 7, as well as the rendering team smashing out the last of the mud/poop mixture on House 8. After a quick lunch at Suubi House we cleaned up, donned our HopeBuilders shirts and headed towards the Jinja Prisons.
5 of the team were handpicked to visit the Men's Prison whilst the remainder of the team spent the afternoon at the Women's Prison. The women were so welcoming! Singing and dancing praises to God with such passion before we introduced ourselves with a word of encouragement from the Word. Afterwards we were invited to pray and share with the women in small groups. I had the privilege of praying for Jennifer, Sarah and Josephine which was heartbreaking but so encouraging at the same time. These women were so far from their families, many of whom didn't even visit their incarcerated mothers, sisters, and daughters. Just the fact that we were willing to love on them by visiting and showing that we wanted to spend time with them really touched their hearts, as it did mine.
God has a way of surprising us with His methods of reaching out to His children. Today we encouraged these men and women, but we went away just as encouraged that God is working in their lives as well as ours.
Bring on Friday!
Check out the photos below and see that we relax and eat like kings at Suubi House too!!!
2 comments:
Keep up the great work peoples!! So good to read your up dates each day and see the impact you are having. May God continue to protect you and guide you!!
Nice to see you all so relaxed and also that Juliet and Suubi are looking after you. It is so great to read these updates and we thank God for the ways in which He is using you to impact others and using others to impact you - It only gets better!
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