Singing in the (lack of) rain

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Lorna

Well I usually use my diary to write my blog, and looking through it this week most of it tends to be about singing and food! School broke up for the Christmas break this Friday and we had a speech day on Friday which lots of parents came to. The children sang lots of songs and performed dances and dramas. So this week they have been rehearsing for the Speech Day because they had finished exams the week before. We were also asked to perform at Speech Day, so we rehearsed ‘Blessed be Your Name’ with beautiful harmonies.
Speech Day went really well. It was so lovely to see the children performing what we have been watching them rehearse for such a long time and everyone was in really high spirits.

We usually go to a Youth Fellowship on Wednesday evenings, and this week we were asked to lead it. We spent most of Wednesday singing because we wanted to rehearse for leading worship, and we’re all musical so it was a good excuse to sing all day! By the end of the day I had almost lost my voice! We also did a talk about what the cross really means, and shared some personal stories, and I think that it went well. I also discovered this week that a jerry can works pretty well as a drum, because I haven’t yet had a chance to buy one.

I think baking is becoming a bit of a regular thing for me. On Friday we held a big sleepover for all of Smile’s volunteers to celebrate all of the recent birthdays, so I was asked to bake enough cake for everyone which I really enjoyed. I’ve had so many people asking me to teach them how to bake! So far I’ve taught one, but there are many more, and many others have also asked me to teach them to play drums!

One of the most exciting moments this week was the arrival of the new Smile car! It was sent in a sea container along with lots of aid several months ago but due to various complications we have only just been able to get it. This was all kept as a secret from all of the volunteers, so the arrival of the car was a huge surprise at the beginning of the sleepover on Friday and everyone was so excited!

So this week has been very chilled out. Its been so lovely to spend so much time singing as it’s almost all been worship which is just absolutely magic. We’ve all had such a laugh recently with all the birthdays and celebrations and I’m really enjoying having so many people around and getting to know some of the volunteers better that I hadn’t spent so much time with before.

Thank you as always for your prayers and support.
This week I’d love if you could pray for…

- Thanksgiving for such a great week and such a beautiful family that God has blessed me with
– Pray for the children who are now out of school for Christmas – for protection, provision and blessings
– For the whole team here – for health, safety, faith and continued good fun!
– For water.

Thank you. God bless,

Lorna xx

. It w� O e e �k� 8�� ried my first grasshopper- with the eyes but without the legs, and surprisingly I did actually enjoy it! The club is held in the same church that we helped to build a few weeks ago. It is an incredibly humble church but I love it! I visited last Sunday for the Sunday service with Clare and Joe and fell in love! They have no walls to the church and no instruments, and they bring plastic garden chairs to sit on, but none of those things matter and I had so much fun and could definitely recognise God’s presence there. Clare and I learnt a song in Luganda about everything being possible with God, which we’ve worked out a harmony to.

This weekend we visited a school a few hours outside of Kampala which teaches deaf and physically disabled children. One of Smile’s volunteers works there and Smile supports the school so we attended their end of term speech day. Each class gave a performance of a song or a dance and some people gave speeches and we gave some aid to the teachers.

Well it’s been a very good week! The children at Chosen school have now finished their exams and so they’re now rehearsing for speech day on Friday (as are we!). As always, thank you for your support and prayers. I mentioned in my last blog about one of the volunteers who fell ill-we were able to visit him at home and he is recovering although he will have to be patient in his recovery, so please continue to pray for him.

Prayer requests:

- Thanksgiving for everyone here and the ways that God continues to bless us.

- For the health and safety of the whole team.

- For the children at school in the last week before the holidays – that God will provide for them and bless them in their break from school.

Thank you so much! Please leave comments and keep in touch, it really means a lot to me!

God bless.