Fellowship and Swallowship!

Friends,

Thanksgiving:
Wonderful! We had such a lovely time last night. At least 18 adults attended, more kids than the adults were present. Thank you each and all for your contribution. The food was good, fellowship was lovely and it was great to meet our new African members. Reuben made challenges seem easier than they could be filling our baskets with laughter! 

I am so excited about the African Fellowship! This is the best it has been so far, for as long as I have known it. Thank God for this positive growth! This fellowship has such great potential to rise and shine above our wildest expectations. The chief ingredients are the unity of the body along with the catalyzing presence and blessing of God. These aspects are interdependent: unity breeds blessing and blessing enhances unity (compare with Psalm 133). We want to stay within the confines of that beautiful spiral. . . 

Future:
The structure of our leadership will quite likely change in the near future. Please join me in prayer for God's great guidance as I work with a few others through the logistics of this change.

Following Fiona's suggestion and the rest of last night's conversations, I would like to make our next fellowship a time of worship and prayer. We will still have a swallowship component. I am yet to work out the details of this. So, please watch your email inbox and the blog. . .

In the mean time, let us continue as before: each loving the another and responding to one another's needs and concerns, along with our usual informal fellowship on campus and elsewhere. I ask your continual benefit of the doubt for each other and the winsome love that God has commanded us to share.

Invitations:
Monday - we have been invited to lead in a time of worship and praise at the Global Community Development Center (Cox's Garage). I will be leading this and I need some of you to please join me with songs and prayers from Africa. We will sing and pray as we send off the people, then we will stay behind in prayer and supplication for those who work elsewhere. This Monday we have will have a team visiting local widows, and another team working on a local community beautification project.
ESL (English as a Seventh Language) - ESL has been made available to us. Please contact me for further details.

Prayer Needs:
Please pray for my best-man, the Rev. James Ssebaggala, who will be consecrated bishop of Mukono Diocese (Anglican) tomorrow in Uganda. The story http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/732328 is incomplete but it is, nevertheless, informative. I am sure more news will be forthcoming here in the near future.Consecration of a Bishop is a major undertaking and I am particularly interested in James as a personal friend. So, please pray for him and his parishioners.