Saturday, June 22.
Greetings from Uganda!
Today was a very good day! We were picked up right on time by Pastor Daniels but ended up starting about an hour late as about half the class called in with one problem or another. It was OK because we ended up staying an hour extra to make up the time. Overall, this group is very good about being on time. Unlike much of our experience in most places we've been to before in Uganda.
Today we conducted practice teaching sessions and let each person present small portions of the materials at least three times. We divided the group into four small groups who took turns teaching each other. Luke and I went from room to room to observe and give them some coaching and feedback. Twice during the day, once just before lunch and once at the end of the day, we debriefed the larger group and gave them some general feedback.
The first few presentations were rough. They are not used to "facilitating" learning. Because most of them are pastors, they like to "preach". But, they soon understood and started to do a lot better. At least most of them did. By the end of the day, most of them were doing much better and on track.
After we finished the practice teaching sessions, we spent about an hour preparing them for the two (2) Encounter workshops that we will be having on Monday. We divided them into two groups of eight people each and gave each of them a different part of the material to present.
So, it was a very good day, and only got better when I returned to the hotel and was able to get on the internet with my ipad!! Yeah God!! It was so frustrating not to be able to access the internet last night. I tried everything I could think of and it still would not access the hotel's wifi login page? I finally clicked on the "renew lease" button on the wifi page and the login page came right up??
Tomorrow, we will go to church. The plan has changed slightly. We will leave for the church at 10 am. I will teach a large group adult Sunday school class at 10:15 am and Luke will preach at 11:15 am. In the evening, we will visit Pastor Jimmie's church (a new church plant from a year ago) for their evening service at 6 pm.
Things are going really well. In fact, amazingly well!! God has linked us up with the right person (Pastor Daniel) and he has brought the right people to become part of this four year process.
The weather has been warm (mid-80's) but not too hot or humid, and it has rained only once since we've been here. The staff at the Mum's Hotel are coming around as well. They recognized us from last two years because of Lead Like Jesus and have taken care of us very well. We even got our dinner tonight in about 30 minutes after we ordered it!! Amazing! Life is good!
I'm looking forward to Sunday and spending time worshipping and praising God, and in Uganda they can really worship! It should be a very enjoyable day.
Thanks for your continued prayers.
Blessings!
Fred
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