Church

I thought you might be interested to hear about my church a bit.
I'm attending a small church plant. The mother church is local to me as well, called Life Christian Ministries Namuwongo. It has 500 members.
The little plant I go to is located also nearby, near the slums of Bukasa. It is in a half finished school building and has maybe 30 people (including kids).

It is a pentecostal church (from my experience, the largest percentage of churches are. I haven't seen a single anglican "Church of Uganda", but on the CIA factbook, Anglican is by far dominant... doesn't seem at all accurate.)

Anyway, biblical teaching seems scarce sometimes here, although there are definately some exceptions.

Pastor Robert is one of the pastors at the church. He has brought so many blessings to my heart as he shares, He is such a genuine, humble and godly man from what I know of Him so far. Hearing him speak about forgiveness, reasons for unanswered prayers, marital faithfulness, raising family, etc etc. He is a breath of fresh air always, so I praise God for him. I don't think I would have been so inclined to stay without getting to know him.

My philosophy is that in 6 months, you just need to get involved somewhere, flitting around trying to find a church won't really achieve as much. I really believe the more time you can spend in given relationships the better. So I've preached there and had a chance for some other ministry too, I really want to base my involvement through churches. I have another church based in someone's house that I want to get more involved with their youth programs. I met them 2 weeks ago, and plan to visit on this weekend / maybe help with their saturday night youth program. They go on evangelism trips and also minister at prisons, so hopefully I'll get to go with them on some of those trips coming up.

The service goes for 3 hours usually, can be tiring :) I don't understand most of the songs, they have quite a few different ones each week, but I'm starting to recognise some repeated ones now. They usually translate for me for messages, they very kind that way, although sometimes the translation is too quiet or hard to follow. I sometimes need a translator between Ugandan English --> Australian English.

Regardless, Pastor Robert usually share in english which I appreciate. Luganda and Swahili are the other main languages used.

David, who I've spoken of before, introduced me to the church, so we go there together. After church we usually head up to a local restaurant together to get a meal for a 1000 shillings (~70c).
It includes goat soup, matoke (savory cooking banana) , yam, kasava, beans, g-nut sauce, generous slabs of avocardo (cheap here) and rice. I usually manage to finish it, but its a struggle sometimes... 70c only!!

I'll try to take some pictures this week. I don't like taking the camera around much, its one less thing that can be stolen, also an obvious sign of money, I feel that can be like vinegar to a wound when you are walking through slums.