The day started at 6am, breakfast at 7am, left at 8am then a four hour drive to a seminary 15 mins outside of Musaka, where we would be attending a leadership conference. Giving us the chance to just get to know those university students we would be working with next week. There was a lot of excitement and anticipation as we climbed into the van, knowing that were on our final stages of travel and about to meet everyone.
The drive there was incredible and surreal all at the same time. I can't explain what it was like to see something we only imagined become real – to see kids walking on there way to school in their uniforms, houses built one right next to the other, stores consisting of four tin walls and a makesift roof, live chickens in crates waiting to be sold and then, right next to it, a building to buy mobile phones. It was a lot much to take in.
Midway through the drive we stopped to take pictures at the Equator (yes, the real one) and finally arrived at the seminary we'd be staying at, and were welcomed by Fred Mawanda – our contact person here for the next few weeks. After unloading our suitcases we were greeted by all the participants at the leadership conference. We will be conducting a CCO-led evangelization conference next week, but at the moment we are participants in a Ugandan leadership conference. Everyone was incredibly welcoming and right away we were invited in. Lunch came, then sports and activites – learning a few new games along the way. Then came the praise and worship. I was blown away: there were singing and dancing and had such an atmosphere of joy that was so life-giving. After listening to a talk and meeting people we headed back to our 'home', had a quick meeting, and shortly fell exhausted into our beds and mosquito nets.
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