Yesu Amefufuka! — Jesus is Risen!

We celebrated Easter Sunday with Sangano. They’ve been getting a good amount of rain the last few weeks (which is good) but it’s made the road a mess. We crept down the road at about 30-40km/hour (less than 25 mph) and still felt like we were going too fast. We reached one section of the road that was a pond. Thankfully, there was a way around the outside of it AND our 4-wheel drive works.

11 people were baptized this morning. What better way to celebrate our risen Lord than to picture being raised to new life in Christ. We started the service earlier than usual and one of the young men who wanted to be baptized hadn’t arrived yet. He came running in as everyone was finding their seats inside the church. James climbed back in the baptistry and baptized him before we continued with the service.

Finally, we showed the Jesus movie at Sangano. The church was packed and more and more people came in until all the seats were taken. The children filled in the rows at the front. When the movie finished, James gave an invitation and several people raised their hands. We’ll be following up with these people (most of them children!) in the next few weeks.

One of the ladies at church had a difficult pregnancy. She gave birth to the baby, a little boy, about 6 weeks ago. Today was her first day back at church with him and we got to meet him for the first time. I think Brennah fell in love. He slept while she held him for most of the church service. 

And there’s just a little glimpse into our Easter in Uganda.