So I am not real sure how all of this works, but I just wanted to share with all of you that is something I am totally amped about. For a long while I was very apprehensive about the trip and was even scared to open the emails from Drew, just because I was afraid of what I would have to do, of the money I would have to raise...etc. But recently God has set a flame in me for these kids, and I have begun to pray for a soften heart and compassion, and that I would go there, with all of you, and would be able to make an eternal impact, both on them and ourselves. I was watching 'Blood Diamond' and in Leo DeCaprio's character said "most Americans only come over long enough to see how bad it really is and then leave..." That struck a dirty note in me since we are only going to be there for a few days...until I realized the eternal implications of what we are doing...kids are going to meet a true Warrior, a true leader and King...they are going to meet Jesus for the first time and they will never be the same. Get Krunk...cause we are goin to battle!

Mackey

PREPARING OUR HEARTS

I want to invite you to "post" anything here you'd like to share with the rest of us, aka. encouragement, thoughts, verses, prayers, etc... My hope & prayer is that this Blog might serve to allow us to record the story of the awesome Journey the Lord has in store ahead of us, as we set out together this summer to serve Young Life's Mission in Pallisa, Uganda. Please "post" anything here you'd like to share, aka. Verses, Encouragement, Prayers, Thoughts, etc... Our Trip will leave out of Atlanta on August 10, & return on August 22. The bottom line here is simple... this is God's movement, not ours... & He's going to use this Trip is going to change each of our lives forever.
KEEP PRAYING....

"If you CLING to your life, you will LOSE it, but if you GIVE it up for me, you will FIND it." MATTHEW 10:39

"But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths, all ideologies, is that GOD is with the Vulnerable and the Poor. GOD is in the Slums, in the cardboard boxes where the Poor play house... GOD is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives... God is in the Cries heard under the rubble of War... GOD is in the Debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and GOD is With Us... If We Are With Them." - Bono

"People ask me, "Doesn't it Paralyze you to walk so closely & intimately with Suffering?" "No," I tell them. "If I've learned anything from my time in AFRICA, it's that though the suffering is overwhelming, so too is the HOPE." - Jena Lee

"He is no fool who GIVES up what he cannot keep, to GAIN what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliott