Its gone by to fast!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                                                                            September 16th, 2011

 Hospital

      Hello everyone! Its Shailynn and I just wanted to share about my day on the 16th. Today we went to the hospital. I thought that I would be serving food to all the patients and their families, but God had something different for me. In the morning we drove to Pastor Moses and Betty's church. From there, we headed off to the hospital. Moses split us into 2 groups and sent one off to the men's ward and the maternity ward, and one to the women's ward. I was in the group to go to the men and maternity wards. In my group were Ashley, Virgil, and some other people I didn't know. It was very hard to keep the tears from running down my face. At the beginning of praying for people, I just stuck with Ashley and prayed with her. But when the Holy Spirit told me to step out of my comfort zone, I obeyed. Turns out it wasn't as scary as I imagined it would be.(: But I know that God held my hand the whole time. In the US people take for granted all we have. God healed that day for sure!!!!!
   

                                                                                                                            September 17th, 2011 Widows

       Today was widows day. To start off our day, we listened to Kevin Hall and Joy Ricks speak to all the widows ( around 275). After listening to them speak for a long time, Jessica and I went outside to get some fresh air. We met some little boys. Their names were George, Trever, Dennis, and the 4th boy didn't know his name so we named him Bob. George and Trever are in 4th grade, Bob is in 3rd, and Dennis is in 2nd. Jessica and I really became attached to these boys!!! We gave Trever and George each a pocket bible of the new testament. They will be preachers!!!!!!!!!!  I will miss them very much!!

                                                                                                                           September 18th, 2011

  School

        The 2 weeks have gone by so quickly!!! In the morning we had a team meeting and we talked about what we were going to do today. Sandy, Joy and Betty are going back to the hospital in the morning, Kevin, Ashley and Mark are going to a school, and Jessica, Virgil, Moses, Daniel, and I are going shopping for a mattress and blanket for Daniel's mom. On the way I found some gifts for my family. We got to give the mattress and blanket to Daniel's mom. She was so thankful. After that we went to the church to meet up with every one. Ashley, Mark, Jessica and I went off to a high school, while everyone else went to the prison. God moved at the high school and also at the prison!! God is a good God!!!! We got finished at around 5'oclock so we headed back to the hotel just in time to scramble inside while the wind was blowing furiously. We waited, and waited, and waited for the rest of the team to come back so we could go over to Moses's house to eat dinner, but they didn't show up till around 7:00. They came and got us and we went to go have dinner. The food was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could eat the food we had every night. After saying goodnight to everyone we went back to the hotel and packed up all our stuff for the next day.

                                                                                                                September 19, 2011

 To much sitting!!!!!

        To start off our day we were in the car. We drove to Moses's house to pick Moses and Betty up. Our van only fits 10 and we were trying to fit 11. So what we did for the 11th seat was we stacked 2 water bottle boxes up and Jessica and I sat on that. It was cramped, but we made it. After stopping to see 2 of Betty's children at boarding schools, we went back to Kampala to the Ivory Hotel. We ate then the Halls said their goodbyes to everyone as they left to Rwanda to see their sponsored child. Betty's other son and daughter came to spent the evening with us. That's all I have to write right now but God bless you and thanks for reading!!!(:

                                         -Shailynn
      
                                                                          

Rremember the little girl who could not speak?

Today is Sunday and from 9 to 10 am people meet to pray for the service which goes from 10 to 2 followed by lunch. At about 10:30 I noticed a familiar face several rows back from the front on the left hand side of the church; it was the little girl from the hospital that God healed 2 days earlier. Her father kept his word and brought her to church!  During the service people were invited to go forward and give a testimony to what God had done for them and from the video you can see that Fiona and her father came forward. He was so choked up that he could not continue speaking and cried tears of joy over his little girl. They could not stay for the rest of the service because he had to take Fiona back to the hospital because she had not yet been released.

God's glory and power(:

                                                                                                                   September 13th/2011
          Today we got to see Charlotte at breakfast. She is such a sweet lady!!   Later that day, we followed Pastor Jonah into the bush. Now I know that sounds weired, but its the Pastors that have churches in the country. It was heartbreaking to see all 12 pastors living in a little hut built of mud and cow manure, seeing the churches built of medal slates with holes and wood. Seeing one Pastor where she had tarp for her church. But God has giving an abundant joy that fills the Pastors!

                                                                                                                     September 14th/2011
       Today it was time to move on to a different part of Uganda. When our team went to breakfast, we met Charlotte, a women Jessica and I met one night. She was like a grandmother to me! Once I finished breakfast, I walked to the room and wrote Charlotte a letter to remind her we weren't going to forget her and to give her our email addresses to keep in contact. In the letter I told her she was like an adopted grandmother and that we loved her so much. She cried when she received the letter. She also gave us her business card and her phone number. She is so cute. Another women Jessica and I loved was the hostess. Her name was Joan. She is the sweetest lady. When Jessica and I were sick, she became our temporary mother. She came and checked on us often. God bless her and her family!!

     This is the day we went to see Pastor Hudson, and his wife, Mercy. We didn't arrive until dinner, but had a meal already ready for us. Mercy is such a great cook!!! After enjoying her meal we headed to Hudson's church. We got to hear Kevin Hall and Ashley Robinson teach the word of God. Ashley called all who need healing up to the front of the stage to get prayed for by the team, and about 89% of the group came forward. Before the group split up and spread out through the people, Ashley prayed for open ears to hear. Jessica and I looked up at the same person when Ashley said I feel like there is some demons here tonight. Once we started praying for the people, Jessica laid hands on the woman which was now flailing her arms and jumping up and down in pain. I was thinking if I should go and pray with Jessica or let her handle it on her own (at the time I didn't know she was manifested by a demon.) So I decided to let Jessica pray on her own. After about 5 or so minutes, Jessica pulled me by the hand and told me to pray over this woman, who was still shaking her arms. I went to go lay my hand on her, but when I did, I could feel pulses run up my arm and I could hear the demons talking. Automatically my stomach started to hurt, and my head throbbed, so I removed my hand from her. But then God reminded me that, "Satan can only do what I allow him to do." So from then on I laid hands on her and prayed out loud. At the peak of my praying God to cast out the demon, the woman tried to hit me. It scared me at first but then she calmed down suddenly. It was the strangest thing. We didn't realize at the moment that there were still demons within her, so we stopped praying for her and gave her a hug. But later that night we just were talking in the hotel room and remembered her eyes, how that they weren't clear. How there was no emotion. But God used Jessica and I to stir the water so someone later can come and finish the job that God had started in us.
                 Right now it in September17th and in Uganda it is 9:36 pm and it has been a long day. Tomorrow I will write again telling you about the Nile, the Hospital, and today was the Widows. God bless!!             Love,   Shailynn Miller(:
    

Flowers of his field

Today was entirely devoted to serving the widows in the area. When we arrived at the church at a little after 10 am, about 150 widows were already at the church singing and praising God. Pastor Moses and his wife Betty have a heart for the widows and he calls them "The flowers of his field." Joy Ricks, Kevin Hall, and Moses shared scriptures with them and encouraged them over the next 4 hours. Of course there was exuberant singing between speakers.

The sermons were followed by a time of prayer and the laying on of hands for all who wanted prayer and the touch of God on their lives. Because there were now 265 women by this time, we divided them up into 4 prayer lines. As Shai and I touched and prayed for the widows in our line, I was hit with the awareness that each one had needs and that each one was special to God.

 At about 3pm we passed out gift bags containing a bar of soap, a bag of salt, a handkerchief from America decorated by members of Joy's church, and a pair of new panties. Yes a pair of new panties and I will add the the women clapped loudly when Betty mentioned that they would be getting a pair (some of the donations from the US were used for this outreach).

The afternoon ended with a generous warm meal for all of the widows who came.

Pastor Daniel's Family

Once we reached Tororo, we took a detour to visit Pastor Daniel's family whom he had not seen for many months.We picked up his brother on the way and continued down a dirt road. Daniel instructed our excellent driver Moses to drive further down the dirt road, then right down a dirt trail, past several mud huts, and finally turned left after the third set of bushes. It started to rain pretty hard when we pulled up in front of his mother's house so we were ushered into the mud hut on the left containing chairs and benches (the other hut/house contained the sleeping quarters). Daniel introduced us to his mother and informed us that he was born in this house.

As we were about to leave, Virgil asked Daniel if his mother was Born Again. He said that he had talked to her about it before, but that she was not. Virgil approached her and asked if she would like to be born again like her son Daniel the Pastor. She replied yes and Virgil led her in a sinner's prayer after explaining the wonderful Gospel of Christ. Virgil then looked up and spoke to Daniel's brother and he too was led to Christ. We had much rejoicing on the way to the hotel.

Daniel is on the right and his brother is on the left.

Taking the Gospel to students, Praying for the sick, Feeding the hungry

In Tororo Uganda, Youth Pastor James arranged to have us speak in a college preparatory school. After being warmly welcomed by the headmaster, we were ushered into a room packed with 300 students ages 15 to 30 years old. We were given free reign to speak to them about Christ for about 1 1/2 hours. Nurse Sandy went first and told them how God had made it possible for her to go to nursing school and empowered her to excel. Sandy's daughter Ashley boldly went next and preached on the power of God and invited the sick to come up and get prayed for. She also asked how many were Born Again and about 1/3 of the hands went up. My turn was next and I told them how God had performed several miracles to get me through school and hired on by HP. I then did my best to tell then that while education was important, the knowledge of God was far more important. "Pastor" Kevin as he is now known spoke last and preached John chapter 3 and wrapped up his message with an invitation to receive Christ as their Savior.

Pastor Moses and his church body go to the Tororo General Hospital to feed the patients as often as they are able to afford it (the hospital is next to the church). We met with the hospital administrator who thanked the church for their commitment to the hospital. You see, the hospital is run on a very low budget (3 doctors for 250 patients) and they do not have the means to feed their patients. If family members or friends do not feed them, then they simply do not get fed. The staff also knows the power of God and welcomes any healing help they can get for the patients in their facility.



Lugazi

We left the capital city of Kampala yesterday morning to travel east and stopped in Lugazi to see Pastor Hudson and meet his family and church. We were warmly greeted by Pastor Hudson and his wife and walked into the door of his rented home to a Ugandan feast. I think we licked the plates clean.

We did not come empty handed and gave them a few small gifts. Before coming I thought about what to give a pastor in Africa? I decided to give them the word of God as taught by pastors I highly respect. I filled 16GBs on each MP3 player with the through the Bible teachings of Pastor Chuck Smith and Pastor Jon Courson,  The next picture shows me explaining how to use the MP3 players to two very thankful pastors; Pastor Hudson and Pastor Daniel.

Evening service: Because we were in town, Pastor Hudson held a special service to let his visitors from America preach to his congregation. Tonight Virgil, Kevin, and Ashley spoke to the congregation followed by a prayer session for the sick of body and soul.

Ugandan worship is lively and uninhibited, allowing for individual expression. They almost have me dancing in place along with the worship team and congregation. I am finding it increasingly more difficult to stand still behind the camera. During the preaching and teaching portion of the service, a Ugandan-English interpretor stands next to the speaker to translate. The next video clip gives you a slight glimpse into the evening worship and preaching service as Pastor Hudson welcomes us.