I just received this from Vern:
Well, I have been staying at Morris & Aidah Oganga’s house, and their help has been taking very good care of me (James and Scovia). I’ve been waiting to use the Internet connection that was supposed to be handed off to me, but is instead headed to Colorado Springs with another fellow who took it with him by mistake.
While I’ve seen Jared (more later) and Isa (now a father of a 2 week old), most of my time has been spent with Hassan, and only today also with Juliet., in counseling. (Nancy’s note: This is the pre-marriage counseling with them.)
On Sunday AM I taught from John 19:25-30 at the Mbale church for the first service, then from Romans 6:1-14 for the second service – good response, especially. It did make the Luganda translators nervous when I broke out into song in each service (two different translators). How Deep the Father’s Love for the first service, and I Was There When They Crucified My Lord. Hassan was at these services, and unknown to me, Juliet was present also (she sure is quiet). I talked with Boaz Mungao briefly.
At CBIT on Monday I taught from 8:30-1:00 on the identification truths (Romans 6:1-11 & Ephesians 2:1-13), and included some of the content from the early part of what God is Doing in the Life of the Believer. VERY well received by the students (and Hassan was there, too, as he hopes to be tomorrow). At the end of the time, some of the students were asking for a handout on the teaching, which may be hard to pull off this week, under the circumstances. I’ll be teaching at CBIT Tuesady and Wednesday as well.
Jared’s feedback on the MP3 players that HHBC sent over two years ago: Jared says that he is learning better how to go about distributiung them, just this last week 8-9 pastors, hearing that I was coming into town, told him to tell us ‘thank you’ for the MP3 players with Luganda, Swahili and English. Their requests from here forward are for AAA rechargeable batteries and solar chargers, and also, a way to play these files out loud for larger groups or for older folks who can’t handle MP3 players.
On another topic with Jerad, when I was over here two years ago, Jerad was interested in his music, but now he is expressing more of an a interest in teaching. I’ll talk to him more to see where that goes.
