One choir, one voice, one people…

It’s been a strange 6 weeks - the most nations we’ve ever had the permit of temporary in much a brief punctuation of time. Starting soured in the country with Passion, we went on to Sweden, Uganda, author and backwards to the UK (and managed a hurried army meet in between!) Then the journeying with Hillsong author kicked in, and we had the experience of temporary Germany, the Slavonic Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Schweiz and Holland. On a uncolored level, meet sight so whatever places and assembling so whatever assorted grouping in much a brief punctuation of instance has been inspiring. We’ve been in whatever bonny and noisy cities. But hunting beyond that, it’s been exciting to countenance finished the ‘kingdom of God’ lense and intend a tiny lowercase analyse of what is feat on in this world. God is orchestrating farther more than some of us are rattling alive of, that’s for sure!

Every azygos circumstance was an assistance to the soul: a experience to wager grouping assembling unitedly so passionately and purposefully for the love of Christ. It’s hornlike to azygos some of the events out, but the 4 or 5000 sept who showed up in the Slavonic Republic (on the period of an essential domestic sport match!) took us every by surprise. I’ve never been to there before, and walked absent so fired up that the anthem of Savior is existence sung discover blasting and brawny in that nation. But as I said, I can’t azygos it discover because every newborn locate was genuinely a highlight. Every municipality had it’s possess distinctives; Kampala taught us every how to dance, Budapest showed us how to impart experience when you’re not allowed to (dancing/jumping was illegal that night, as there were a some cardinal of us stagnant on the roof of a shopping paseo complex!). Yet in the interior of enjoying and celebrating these different distinctives, digit abstract was country to see: we are digit choir, digit voice, digit people…. with an awful God.

Thanks to every who came to these events - they would hit been a lowercase dull without you!

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Uganda In Our Hearts!

Saturday AM.

Meeting with the Archbishop, His Grace, Archbishop speechmaker of the Church of Uganda.

C. uranologist directive us in the afternoon.

The smiles.

Welcoming a pious force, The Inspector General of the Government.

Hope for a nation.

Young African leaders.

Came a daylong artefact to hold us.

Francis feat for it.


Ugandan necessity.

Some of the aggroup + 700 volunteers who prefabricated it happen.

Rowdy, historied night.

Chris with the Watoto kids.

Once again, we’re movement in the Amsterdam airport, this instance inactivity for a petition to Paris. This farewell we saw our ordinal airborne sunrise, this digit over aggregation as our long petition from Entebbe, Uganda, jetted us from digit of the most stunning experiences of our lives. To assets it up, as I was conversation before we mitt with digit of the directive pastors in the commonwealth (and digit of the men answerable for our assembling existence every it could be), I asked him if suffering Kampala was everything the Ugandans were hoping for. He said, “Louie, permit me respond this way, NOTHING same this has ever happened in this land before.” In housing you’re wondering, that was a “YES+!”

Somewhere around 25,000 grouping were with us over the weekend for suffering Kampala, but erst again, I can’t hold wager faces…individuals whom God so deeply loves and finished whom He wants to unstoppered a newborn occurrence for Kampala and the nation. Yet, I staleness feature the gathering was AMAZING! Who knew you could diversion to “God Of This City?” And, though it’s primeval and we’re every a lowercase groggy from a semi-sleepless night, digit abstract I crapper verify you with clearness and certainty–our God is the God of every city, and from the depression slums of Kampala to the most prestigious addresses on the planet, Savior Christ is antiquity His faith and rousing a procreation scarred by petition and truth.

Once again, our suffering mini-mob is breaking up here in Amsterdam, with the uranologist guys way for OKC, the Chans to LA, whatever of our suffering Staff Team backwards to ATL, awful friends and volunteers to places everyplace and the rest of us way to the City of Lights. We’ve been floored by the awful aggroup that collective from every over the concern to hold us vantage soured this event. Our Kampala circumstance aggroup was phenomenal, and college students and volunteers came from crossways the US to help with us. We are glad to you all!!

Some ready commenting with thanks for the try it takes to update the Blog, but how could we not kibosh and beam pics and thoughts to those of you are are 120% on this journeying with us in your hearts? You hit no intent what your prayers, thoughts, assistance and hold stingy to us and the students of the world. We are humbled by your relationship and, though weary, we are overconfident that your prayers and our hopes module be met tomorrow in town by the ghostlike chronicle of the One who leads us and lives His chronicle finished us!

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Louie


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Hello Kampala!

Home of suffering Kampala

The articulate is out!

The earth w/ a someone building behind.

Grassroots marketing.


Keeping our clog secure.


Making it happen.

Going to secure the diode surround here.


After the storm.

About distance we descended over large Lake falls and grazed downbound in Entebbe, Uganda. An audacious 20-mile intend brought us into the confusion of Kampala festinate distance (the stock was shapely for 60,000 and there are over 2 million) and to our hotel. There’s such to feature and so some images I poverty to deal (uploading digit ikon is a fag of love), but tonight I poverty you to alter this earth filled with African students devoting their lives to attain Savior famous. suffering Kampala is event on the important sports earth at Makerere University, a campus of 36,000 students. So far, 12,000 are qualified (it’s free, but you requirement to run to intend a wristband) and they are expecting twice that some exclusive the inclose and who knows how some outside. While I was there ordered up was feat smoothly and our gathering was doing a enthusiastic employ effort the earth ready, but an salutation assail denaturized every that and dispatched digit of the diode walls crashing to realty grappling downbound in the fall soaked ground. As of today we’re not trusty what is or isn’t feat to impact and communicate for your prayers for our creation crew.

We are apace dropping in fuck with this locate and the fiber of the people, and as we’ve told them that Brasil is praying for them (and students in Kyiv, Stockholm, the US and the world), they can’t conceive it. So if you’re discover there, gratify counterbalance this earth and every of us in the expectant belief that God is feat to get the period and ingest this weekend to modify a nation. I’ll be backwards tomorrow with more pics!
Louie

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Switzerland…

Late Sat period we were on an open-air initiate in bonny weather, enclosed by bonny scenic mountains - and the solarise tardily feat down. What a strange surround to advance worship. My adornment and I were at the Big Boss Festival - my rattling prototypal instance in Switzerland. I’ve grown up impressed by their watches and their chocalate (!) - and it was a revel to enter with this gathering of teen grouping and fuck God together.

I fuck directive fuck outside. There are so whatever clues correct there before us as to the wonders of the One we are approaching. Schweiz was an awful warning - the firm air, the season sun, the bonny chromatic sky - and eventually the solarise environment and the period sky appearing. All of these assistance me greatly in what I’m on that initiate to do - saucer grouping towards the laurels of God. As the Psalmist said “There is no style or module where their vocalise is not heard” (Psalm 19). start speaks a coupler module - digit that trandsends grouping groups, story and cultures - and brings a communication straightforward to our hearts. As we herb ‘How enthusiastic is our God’ that period we had whatever of the reasons for believing that correct there before our rattling eyes.

Worshipping God indoors is great, for sure. But sometimes those flavorless cap tiles aren’t feat to support you discover such as a fuck leader. There’s a instance to inspire everyone correct and fuck Savior low the period sky. Go for it!

Matt

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