It's broken.

Today I had some new experiences in Unga. I took teammate Tami Carter for a visit. It was so incredibly fun to introduce her to my friends and also incredibly fun to meet some new people with her! By nature Tami is a lover of people, and eagerly desires to bless those she meets, and she brought that with her today. It was so incredibly fun and eye opening for me.

We met several ladies I had not yet met, and it was fun to walk her around some of the old familiar places that Katie and I walked so many times. But even in all of this fun, there were reminders that we were in a broken place. For the first time ever, people were rude in their shouts and hollers after us. One man actually crossed the line with inappropriate gestures that I had never encountered in Unga before. Some of the women were demanding money from us, while others just hollered insults. It was disheartening, and honestly I still am not sure why today of all days. I remembered though, that we were there because people there don't know Jesus, they can't be expected to act like him! This is part of our task of transforming the community, that people would respect each other, as well as themselves. That people would have enough Hope in the Living God that they would not resort to demanding (way more aggressive than begging) money from passers by.