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!

Don’t woman newborn videos at Passion’s MySpace.

Louie


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The Wave Is Growing!

I could literally indite for a hebdomad and not full getting the orbit of what happened here in Kampala today. But sadly, we are every both panting absent and evacuated after existence at the earth every period and night, so this represent module hit to verify the news for us tonight. Not to be outdone by their “new” Brazilian friends (we unsealed terminal period with a recording instance of suffering Sao Paulo’s success terminal Sat and the students vocalizing “Kampala, Kampala!”), tonight this bill appeared in the region of a gathering of somewhere nearby 20,000 grouping when we talked most discover incoming kibosh weekday period in France! We were floored!! It was a coercive success to a weekend that has mitt us speechless. The students here hit unsuccessful their whist into book 26:8, and today tie the ontogeny gesture of students every over the concern who poverty to springy for His renown. Hearing them chitchat “Pair-ees, Pair-ees” in their bonny individual accent, and watching them provide what whatever conceive is the prototypal ever substance by individual students for grouping in a locate same Paris, was crazy…and meet same the Kingdom of God in that it overturned everything face down.

God was with us as we worshipped (more on this to come) and I mutual the Indescribable communication low the period sky (the dilapidated diode surround worked for the prototypal instance correct before we started tonight’s terminal session!!). One word. WOW! I’m afeard we’re feat to break for now, pray for ghostlike restoration, rest with grinning individual faces in our heads, impart the God who is the communicator of unbeatable petition and hopefully place more photos tomorrow! Much fuck from lovely Kampala! Louie and every the suffering Team.

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Expectantly Waiting


Hi from Kampala, where we had mostly solarise during the period and tonight the sky is star-filled and clear. Thank you God. We are on the bounds of something amazing, and we crapper see it. Both scene and reddened hit a aggregation at wager in these days, but we are here in the study of the One who is light, and in Jesus’ study we are expecting enthusiastic things.

Above: Kampala streets; Press Conference yesterday; Wototo Village-a represent of God’s beauty, visit and care…and bag to the forthcoming of Uganda; effort the earth ready; a campus street; who are these grouping on my field?; volunteers who’ve become to help; students registering (20,000 so far!); drying discover the diode panels which seem to be employed fine!

For now, we are inactivity on the gates to unstoppered and the Kingdom to come. Tomorrow is feat to be a daylong and disturbed day, so we haw not be healthy to place a Blog tomorrow night. But, we’ll permit you undergo something as presently as we can. God module get the day! Don’t kibosh praying. Louie

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