a music festival last week. Several sponsorship projects were invited to participate. Our children were also invited. To our children, the news came with a lot of excitement. All the 60 children now in the program anticipated to attend. Unfortunately only 20 children were invited to participate from every group. Several groups from different cities were invited to participate and they were supposed to present different music items.The leaders had a hard time to choose who were to go. Finally it was decided that the children who can sing and danc
e better, would be given the priority to attend. 20 children were selected and last Sunday they gave some presentations before the church. The members of the church especially the parents and guardians, were so excited for this golden opportunity for their children to travel to Kampala and especially to train on their skills.
On Monday very early in the morning our children boarded the early bus. It takes 7 hours to reach Kampala which is in central Uganda. And by evening the children had adjusted and shown around. Because of excitement they forgot about food for the whole day. They enjoyed the ride on the Bus seeing different places they had never gone to. They were amazed to see Lake Victoria, the biggest lake in Africa. The festival took three days, with several groups presenting their items. "It was all very exciting and challenging seeing these children show the art of God's creation" Says Doreen, one of our children leaders. 
Our children participated very well and among the 12 groups who attended, our children were the third. The two leaders who went with them brought back an amazing testimony, how our children performed well and excited every body, especially with the Kikiga dance(local dance). It is amazing to see different skills and gifts these children have. The enemy would have killed all these precious gifts. Thank you friends for giving these children an opportunity to go to school and expose these children to great opportunities. Most of these children had lost hope and were seen on the community as useless and worthless children. Many of these children were on the street as beggars and some of these small girls were all already 
involved in acts of prostitution at an early age. They tell stories how men would seduce them with 200 Ush for buying a piece of cake.The young boys say,they would go to steal because they were so hungry. Most of them would spend three days without tasting food. One child said, i wished i was never born! But since they came into the 
sponsorship program of our church, God has transformed their lives. They are a big testimony on the community. They now know how to pray and recite scripture. They sing very well, praise to our God. I was amazed to see these children perform in our church service as they prepared to go to Kampala. Please pray for our children as they grow up so that they great skills and gifts God has put in them will grow and be utilized and benefit the kingdom. Also pray that God will provide uniform for our children. We had to borrow uniform from other singing groups. Our 
children got a challenge as they were traveling back, the bus they had boarded had a mechanical problem and being late they had no alternative. Have way on the journey back home it broke down and they remained on Bus in Mbarara town. It was a horrible experience for them to sleep on the Bus and on hungry stomachs. Early in the morning, another Bus picked them up and brought them to Kabale. By the time they reached they were so exhausted but happy! How we pray that the Lord will provide our own transport means for such trips in future.
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