The List

We had a great day today. A good service began with Ryan leading worship, I've been gone for three weeks and wanted to worship Jesus with words I understand. It was nice. Then JB taught a great message from Romans 12. Then Issac from Fort Portal and his folks came to second service and they were a huge blessing to Bev and I. Then we did training for different ministries here. This is the follow up to last week's ministry fair. Kelli did an incredible job setting that event up and the response was more than we had hoped for. About 100 people signed up for different ministries and today marked the first day of training.

First group were Ushers. Now this may seem like an easy work to do but how many people really want to be told where to sit. Especially if you are told to sit in front. Jb is well behaved but I have a tendency to bump into things, drop my notes or like yesterday in the village I knocked the podium over.(Scared that lady half to death but she wasn't sleeping any more) I also tend to ask rhetorical questions from those in front so people tend to want to give me lots of space.
So it can be a bit daunting for the ushers to politely get the people to the front. But God has blessed us with a fantastic young woman who has ushering down to an art. Its all about the "look". She is the warmest and sweetest lady you'll ever find but if you don't sit where she politely tells you she will give you the "look" and you instantly know if you don't move quickly your life as you have known it is over. It is the "look" that a wife gives her husband when pays more attention to his repair project than her. Or when she's wearing a new dress and asks "Notice anything different" and he says "You got your hair fixed." It is the look that grabs the husband's attention and strikes him with fear. But our usher can strike that fear into any member of the church male or female, old or young. If the angels who spoke to the shepherds on that Christmas morning had this look they never would have said "Fear not".
So the ushers have been trained in the look and our other female usher has great potential but the guys just don't have it! I think the guys just have the "Lack". But maybe they can work up to it.

The hospital training went well and so did the street kids ministry later in the day. We are truly praising God for the heart he is putting in His people to serve.