-This letter is from Lutaaya, my passionate friend at African Hearts who started it all... it's about the new house at Ssenge and the boys there. I think it's a wonderful look into what God is doing in Uganda as we speak! Thanks for reading.
Dan
How is your life? It is always my wonderful pleasure to write to you and give the updates, everything is so exciting here with the new family of boys who came in I cannot believe how they have changed drastically, in my social work classes am told that desocialisation is a process and that it takes long time for people to give up what they have been doing for a long time to give it up in a short time but am surprised. What am seeing here is a real miracle, God healing his people in the shortest time possible my faith has grown and sure God can do anything as he wants. These boys am talking about were on the streets for a long time and had started doing all sorts of evil that street kids do, sniffing drugs, stealing, fighting among many other becoming behaviors and for the time I have worked with street kids I had prepared myself expecting many challenges but these people God has changed their hearts and they are understanding, we discuss, and they follow instructions some of them are even leading in the house, they have a discipline to wake up very early every day and greet that is a big deal in Africa, do house work, study and then play. We also do devotions every night, they have given testimonies in the church we go several times and they always thank God for the new place, now this sounds normal but to a street kid to come to this point is almost impossible.
As you know we have 7 young men here and our last family member is called Abdul who we brought in last week he also has his own unique characters, so quiet and has something special that most people will like him before he even speaks a word. On money we were celebrating Wasswa’s Birth day you know when they come into the house we give them birth days which they choose themselves and so we celebrate them to make them feel special and also to boost their esteem. So we celebrated the young man’s birth day it was fun we had chicken, rice, Irish as that is what the birthday boy asked for they invited their friends from the community and we had fun together. God has really connected me to these young people they do things that matter to me, for example some of them have written me letters saying that they love me and to me this is something that I cannot take lightly. Please keep praying for these young people prayer really works. Am going to send you their pictures soon.
We have also been going out to Kisenyi slums as we have always done, it is also some good work, and every day I go down there I get more clarity on how to help these young people and also God continues to confirm my calling, am dedicated to serving in this way and I need your prayers because it involves a lot of self sacrifice, dedication, commitment, but I know it is about God for this is his work.
We are planning on having 16 street kids but we think that we first need to put some things in place like, water tank, kitchen, more beds, and many things for the house so that we don’t create situations where some have good things and other don’t have.
God Bless.
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