PREACHING AT MARANATHA BIBLE CHURCH, IN SAN ANTONIO

It was time to leave for San Antonio. On Saturday 4th October, we woke up so early in the morning, we set off for Oklahoma City, by 8:00am.

It took us 2 hours to reach Wills Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Checking in was a lot easier, as I was getting more experienced. Jeff helped where I got difficulty.

The plane left around 11:00 am and an hour later we were in Dallas.

Fort worth Dallas airport is so big! I had to use a terminal shuttle to get to the right Gate for my next boarding. I didn’t have much trouble getting through the process.

4 hours later, we boarded for San Antonio and by 6:00pm we were in San Antonio. There is a lot of construction going on at the Airport, so it took some time before Pastor Draper could get where I was. But soon, he got me and we set off.

We had dinner and had a good time before he took me to the place I was supposed to stay.

I stayed at Johnson Nantambwa’s, he is a Ugandan by birth.

I had a great time with his family. He is married to Monica and they have two daughters.

They have a beautiful house.

We woke up Sunday early in the morning for church.

Maranatha Bible church starts the first service at 8 so were at church by 6:30 to make preparations.

I was scheduled to preach that Sunday evening service. This Sunday happened to e a mission’s Sunday. Several missionaries attended this Sunday service.

However, it turned out that the preacher of morning services was not able to come and the pastor asked me if I can preach.

I have preached for the last 15 years and before I came the Lord had given a message, so it would not be a hard thing. I told him that I had no problem with that.

I preach three times that day and by the time we went home I was so tired.

I enjoyed the services at Maranatha Bible church.

Monday is normally the Pastor’s day off, so I spent most of the day with the Pastor and his wife together with Jackie one of the missionaries the church support on the Philippine Islands.

We took lunch together. I ate Mexican food called Fajita, it tasted great. The only thing I didn’t like about it was beans, because I am used to eating beans back at home.

I have adjusted to the American food and I am now comfortable taking any food. Most of the foods in the US are processed and it is a bit hard to adjust to it when you have been used to our Ugandan food. Food here tastes different. Here they add sugar to most foods, we are used to add salt to food and sugar is added to tea or coffee in Uganda.

In the evening we visited Stuart and family. It was a great time of fellowship, having Johnson, his wife and children around. We also had Amos, another good friend with us. Stuart and Johnson have been coming to Uganda on mission trips and we have picked friendship. We had dinner together and before we went home.

Johnson’s home is close to the road and I could hear the school buses come over to pick children for school in the morning.

It is so interesting that Education for Elementary and High school is free in the US. The government pays tuition and students are transported to school and brought back in the evening. I n Uganda some kids walk for over 5 miles to go to school and tuition is paid for right from Elementary school. May children find it hard to go to school especially orphans and children from poor families. Most families in Kabale are so poor.

I felt at home, as we discussed different Uganda stories with Johnson and his family.