Www.paradoxuganda.blogspot.com is the place to go to view the details of what is happening in our Ugandan community right now - a dreaded Ebola outbreak. Seems astounding that Ebola is there, right by our friends, our house, our dog behind her lonely fence. Yet not astounding either, Uganda has had a previous outbreak seven years ago, and Eastern Congo near our border has had similar viruses recently. Please pray for the situation on the ground as CDC, WHO and others hit the ground tomorrow morning and begin doing their best to isolate those who have been affected. Particularly pray for safety for our team and Ugandan medical workers. Medical caregivers are disproportionately affected by diseases like ebola and marburg which are spread through bodily fluids. Pray for wisdom. I was talking with a friend today who gave me a beautiful and appropriate quote from a man named Bill Johnson, ” I try not to be as impressed by the impossibility of a given situation as I am impressed by the power of the God I serve, to respond.” (paraphrase!) Wow. I must admit, Ebola instantly impressed me, made me cry for the two year olds on our team that I love so much and who seem so small and vulnerable, made me hope and pray that our students, inside their fences, will stay safe. Yet this is another marvelous chance for God to do miracles, for God to break through in supernatural power, for God to be GOOD. Pray with me so that the Kingdom will break through amazingly and impressively in Bundi these next few weeks and months.
Meanwhile we spent the day here embracing some of our American community. Over the last few weeks I’ve struggled with a bit with depression, and some of it is missing the strong community I have in Uganda. Though community there is exhausting and overwhelming it is also refreshing and powerful. I miss it badly in this urgent and important American life I am living. I am so thankful for the way God pulled me into community today, when I needed it so badly, as I cried and prayed through processing the potential of this virus to hurt those I love. I spent time praying with my mentor/friend and then the rest of the afternoon the kids and I spent with another friend; cooking, making projects, gazing at her baby and taking a walk to the bay beach to watch her puppy dog swim in again and again. It felt great.