Our First Day in Kampala

Monday was a great day for our team! We were able to sleep in a little bit and awake to eat breakfast together. The goal of our day was to rest some after a long hard week in Kagadi. We drove into Kampala and went to a mall there because of the promise of an American hamburger at a restaurant there(yummie!) and to exchange our American money for Ugandan. While there, we did some shopping in some of their stores and one of their supermarkets(closest thing we have seen to an American marketplace). Driving through Kampala was an experience, to say the least. The city was bustling with life and industry and we saw lots of people walking to and from business, mopeds(or boda-boda's as they are called) scooting in between car lanes, and several more Western faces than we had seen in Kagadi. As I looked at the city, I could see it's poverty and the way it is still in need of Jesus's Kingdom, but at the same time, I could see Christ's presence in the city already and could faintly make out the dream of what this city COULD be! We also went to a station of market vendors and bought some authentic African articles and got to experience bargaining down the vendors. We came back to the Eby's after that and experienced a little downer for the evening....our teamate Chris Goodman got sick with a fever and Dave and Aaron ended up taking him to the hospital - the good news is that he is fine...a little weak though. Some of us sang songs by candle while they were gone because electricity was on a shortage. It was a good restful day overall and we are thankful to be here and are loving Uganda, Kagadi, and now Kampala. Please continue to pray for us that God would work in and through us to impact this nation and city for Jesus and His Kingdom. His Church is here already and we are excited to be apart of it! --Adam Shields