I just returned from my third trip to Uganda. I didn’t expect to become so invested in Uganda when I first went to Africa. When I arrive each time, I feel like I am going back to see my family. I have supported children in Uganda through Gospel Messengers, an indigenous work in Southern Uganda. I first met Moses Mbuga when he spoke in Oregon five or six years ago. Moses Mbuga is the Senior Pastor, Gospel Messenger Church, Buganda, Uganda, East Africa. I was invited to come and see the work that is being done. Moses is a pastor, and an overseer over several churches and seven schools and also works with orphans and village children who don’t have an opportunity to go to school except through Gospel Messengers. There is no public education in Uganda. For $30 a month a child can receive an education, one meal a day, a uniform and a pair of shoes.

Kathy Robinson of Colton, Oregon had asked Jennifer Joy to made a Glory Ring for Uganda earlier this year. The Glory Ring photographed above was in Uganda when I arrived at the Gospel Messenger Church.

I have gone each time with a team of men and women who God has touched with a burden for these children. Last year one of the teams put a well in one of the villages. This year we saw the affect that this had on this community, because the children looked much healthier. These people were drinking surface water and it was nothing more than a mud puddle to us. This year that same team member returned to put a well in another village after spending a year raising funds for the project. The cost of these wells is approximately $10k American currency. We visited seven schools and saw first hand what our money does to help these people. This time I was able to travel the mouth of the Nile rive and anoint this river with “HIS Crown and Key Holy Anointing Oil” for the LORD.

This time we also went into Northern Uganda where they have been having a civil war with the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army). I must now tell you that their lord is not Jesus Christ. The President of Uganda has been trying to negotiate with the rebels to surrender and they will be given amnesty. So far they have made not progress toward that goal. Sudan is also trying to negotiate this surrender. If you have heard of this conflict this in the Riff Valley. We were able to meet Pastor James John who lost his parents in this conflict when he was 6 years old. We were on the radio in this far away place telling the people that God loves them and that he hasn’t forgotten about them. There are thousands of people living in the IDP camps (Internally Displaced People) because of the rebel forces. It is not safe for them to return to their homes. They have been in these camps for the last five years. The army has them protected in these camps, but if they return to their own land they will be in peril unless the rebels surrender. I was given a picture by the Holy Spirit to share with these people, that Uganda was like a very large bee hive and many bees were coming to pollinate the flowers in Uganda (the people) so that there would be honey in this hive for the whole world. The plane that we took form London to Entebbe was primarily filled with Christians on a mission to Uganda. It was exciting to be a small part of that.

While we were in Northern Uganda, we were able to interview people from the same congregation who were victims of this war and some of the people that had hurt them deeply. This had to be a miracle for these people to reach this level of maturity in the LORD. I came home from this mission sobered by mankind’s inhumanity to each other. The stories that I heard I cannot even repeat. If you have seen the Transitions DVD about Uganda, you will see why GOD I blessing Uganda right now. They have publicly acknowledged their sin, witchcraft, idolatry and rebellion and asked GOD to forgive them and to be the GOD of their nation.

On our journey back to Kampala to travel to Entebbe to catch our plane early the next morning, a problem developed with the van we riding in. We were about 100 miles from Kampala and the Holy Spirit told me to begin praying in my prayer language and not to stop until HE told me to or the engine would stop. One and one-half hour later the Holy Spirit said that I could stop praying and we made it back safely. It was a silent – non-announced mission of the LORD. After arriving in Kampala safely, another team member told me that the “oil light” was on the entire return trip. I consider this a miracle.

Thank you to all that prayed for me while I was in Africa for three weeks – September-October 2006)

Dolores McKee (dolores_mck@yahoo.com)