Pastor John

Pastor John Mugabe stayed a night with Kat and I. John is visiting from his home in Uganda. He has come to our church to help raise support for his numerous ministries.

John leads a large prison ministry, presides over a primary school and a newly-established secondary school, and pastors a growing church. Oh, and he and his wife have developed an in-home ministry to protect the babies of female prisoners from almost certain demise by taking them into their own home... They've take in 30, to go along with their two. John is 31 years old, and I am so impressed.



It was such a neat time of fun and fellowship with John. Kat and I are looking into how we can best support his ministry. But more than anything else, his visit is a reminder that God is faithful, and that we shouldn't look at anything, not money, jobs, education, or any such thing, for our confidence in this life.

Seeing a man who was given so little and has turned it into so much. It made me simltaneously aware of all the gifts we have been blessed with, and how little we have done to put those gifts to good service.

C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." I feel the call roaring like a train whistle through my heart this evening...