We came from Kampala on Thursday, July 7th in the evening when Peter was sent by Papa to take us to Jinja. We were a team of 15 Doves: Yves, Aksanti ,Freddy,Serge Kazi, Kaji, Jackson, Serge Cikoma, Robert, Jimmy, Espoir, Boris, Akili, Convoi, Innocent, Sam and Sami. Reaching late at night we didn't go directly to bed, because our hearts were very excited for our family in Jinja, yeah! As everybody knows: Jinja is our Home, so we didn't like to rush to bed till we enjoyed each other of our family and praying together. Jeff has got a heart of wishing us success and he is really a good brother to us. Sometimes events are not ones we can imagine and they really amaze us. The time on Friday he wanted to check out our songs to be ready and it was a good time to revise our arrangement.
This event was very different and amazing, and we didn't expect what God did for us that night. We sang at a restaurant called The Keep, where they have live music on Friday nights. We started approaching the stage at 8:00pm and God was making a way in every thing .We met many people ready on their chairs, very excited for the music. Each person payed 3,000sh to have access and many others didn't have access to come in because the place was full even before we began. Our CD's were being sold by Mom, after 45 minutes we had a break and we were suprised to see many people who also payed their money sitting outside and enjoying our music from there. Papa told us to sing again outside for these people. We sang an accapela song and they enjoyed it so much. It was a blessed night that no one would like to miss. After 15 minutes we came back on the stage, and it was the time that people were very excited and ready to dance. Everybody was very free and very ready to express his feelings. They were not asked to stand but they found themselves up and dancing and enjoying the concert. God is doing a great work in Jinja. Jinja is a town of very busy persons and Muslims but God is changing them. After another 45 minutes of singing, it was the end of the concert. We used that time to celebrate Todd Bukkenya and Hannnah Smith's birthdays at the same place. Mom brought out a large chocolate cake to serve everyone after the Dove sang "Happy Birthday". And then the band sang an encore song, "Angels".
This concert was organised by Papa and Mom, and it has really been successful. We thank you for your prayers and for always having the heart of praying for us. We thank God, our creator, who enabled us to make this good work. May it please Him.We slept well, although we enjoyed each other and shared about our evening before ending the day. On Saturday, we had a good breakfast before joining The Caring Place boys for a soccer match between The Dove and those young boys who love soccer so much. We were too tired to be much competition for them, and they beat us 6-1. We were just happy to end the game so we could rest. We ate together and enjoyed the boys until Peter took us back to Kampala in the evening, so we could prepare for Sunday.
On Sunday morning, Papa and Mom joined us in Kampala in our home church. Papa shared the message in our main service and Mom shared in the youth service after that. We are hoping they will come back in a few weeks to continue teaching us about marriage and relationships and have a good time of questions and answers.
