Not Forgotten

We had the Watoto Children's Choir in from Uganda. Can I say, it doesn't get much better than this. I heard them sing 5 times this weekend and cried each time. No joke. They've performed for the Queen of England, Hillsong United and Israel Houghton. I'm just sayin.....they're good.

There stories are phenomenal. Each child (17 in all) represented over 1700 children that are now part of the Watoto Village which is a unique vision that is making a world of difference. Each of the children were orphans that lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.

18 months ago we sent a team of 21 NCCers to help build housing for more children. Today, we got to see the vision of aone:eight and the missions initiative in the flesh. So often you get the outline of relationships in missions....the stories from missionaries, the images, the films. Those are all good, but simply can't share the impact as much as seeing what God is doing right in front of your face. We saw the guts of it.

Every time they got up and sang, "I am not forgotten, the Lord knows my name" I'd just well up with tears seeing the beautiful faces and knowing their stories.

We housed two girls, grace and crystal along with a chaperone, Pricilla. Talk about the sweetest, most behaved kids in the world! Unbelievable.

I think seeing all the children brought missions home for a lot of people today.