Wasswa's Fun Facts

   How did you get your nickname:

 It was simple ,we were at school doing some physical exercise and people were making some pressure ups for them were making 30 so for me when I came I made 45 at once and not only that I did other things people could not do and from there they started calling me strong.

  What part of your culture do you want us to learn:

 To learn how people behave in different ways

What is Matooke:

 It’s a vernacular word meaning cooked bananas.

 

What do you like to do best:

 Playing football

Like if you could be any color what would you be:

 Red

If you could be any animal what would you be:

 Dog

If you could go back in time what would you be:

 I would be a pilot

Where would you go if you could choose a historical site:

 I would go to Greece

 If you could be a character in the bible what would it be:

 I would be like Moses

What is your dream:

 A mechanic of vehicles working in different countries

What do you want for your future:

 To be a strong rich man who helps others in need

What cartoon figure would you like to be:

 Avatar

Wasswa' Favorite Song

Wasswa's Schooling

Wasswa goes to Lord Meade with his brother Kato. Which is a boarding school in Njeru, Uganda. At school, he is learning the skills to become a leader and pursing his dream of becoming a business man . Please pray for the Wasswa and his fellow classmates as they achieve their goals in life. Take a minute and explore his school!!



 

Lords Meade

Wasswa's Daily Routine

In the holidays:

When I wake up in the morning I do some house work like sweeping the compound, washing clothes, washing dishes, and looking after the pigs. I sometimes preparing for our lunch, once finished I move around the compound to take time, and then I read some story books or news papers. And I complete the day like that and sometimes I depend on the day’s weather. Depending also who is going for digging or the pigs.

At Boarding school:

In School time we get up at 530 am and get back at 7pm into the dorms.

Wasswa's dreams

Wasswa dreams to become a wealthy man who helps others to assist the needy, poor, sick and disable. One of his quotes is "Disability is not inability"

Wasswa Andrew

 

Wasswa Andrew is a beautiful child of God, was brought to Sarah’s Heart for Second Chances Home in 2007 with his sister Florance, and brother Kato.  His family comes from the village Bukaya, and they made a way into the hearts of Sarah and her family. For the next week we will learn everything that Wasswa into, when it comes to his schooling, his dreams, daily work habits, and fun facts about him.  Please join me in a journey to get to know Wasswa better!

 

Rose's Favorite Bible Verse

John 1

The Word Became Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”
 They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
Finally they said, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”
Now the Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

John Testifies About Jesus

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.  And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’  I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”

John’s Disciples Follow Jesus

The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.  When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
“Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).

Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”
Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida.  Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked.
“Come and see,” said Philip.
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.
Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel.”
Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.”  He then added, “Very truly I tell you, you will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on’ the Son of Man.”

Puzzles

She loves puzzles, the one she helped with are:

 

If anyone could donated puzzles... so I can bring them with me to Uganda! Please let me know!!!

Rose's Fun Facts

 

 

What do you like to do for fun:

 Watch a comedy or plays, reading, listening to music and playing games then going out with friends

 

What is your Favorite Food:

Rice and Chicken

 

What is your favorite Color:

 Blue

 

What special skill would you like to learn:

Bake Cakes

 

What is your Favorite animal:

Pony

 

What is your favorite subject in School:

Biology

 

What is your least favorite subject in school:

Math

 

If you could be any color what would it be:

Blue

 

If you could be any animal what would you be:

Pony

 

If you could go back in time what would you be:

Tourist

 

Where would you go if you could choose a historical site

Australia

 

If you could be a character in the bible what would it be:

 Mary

 

What cartoon figure would you like to be:

Cinderella

Rose Favorite Song

Rose's Schooling

Rose goes to PMM Girl's school located in Jinja, Uganda along Magwa Road. Where she is learning to be successful for the future! Please take the time to pray for the students and staff!

PMM Girl's School

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Rose's Daily Routine

Rose likes to do house work that includes cooking, washing, and cleaning the house. She will get the notion to sit around, and tell others what needs to be done. She hates when anyone is sitting down and doing nothing, so she will go out of her way to give you work. Since she is in a S4 candidate she has to learn and revise a lot of things. She will be sitting in some of the sewing classes that will be given this September and October 2014. If she really likes it then she will go for further schooling or sign up for a vocational school. 

Rose's Dreams

Rose dreams of becoming a physician or a medical worker. Although she dreams of being a physician she wants a home that is full with a family of two kids and with her own car. Please pray for God to light the path for Rose!

 

 

Rose Kojoki

Name: Rose Kojoki

Birthday: July 20, 1995

Nationality Ugandan

 Rose is the daughter of Chandia's elder brother. Since Chandia's brother play a very big role in bringing Chandia up, Chandia is giving back to her brother by bringing Rose up.

SATAN’S TACTICS

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, “We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from family values. But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding experience in Christ. “If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time so they can't gain that experience in Jesus Christ. “This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day.” “How shall we do this?” shouted the evil angels. “Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work and the husbands to work six or seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work. “Overstimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to keep the TV, the DVD, and their CD’s going constantly in their homes. Tempt them to spend more time on their computers, especially watching internet pornography. “Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news twenty-four-hours-a-day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products, services and false hopes. “When they meet for fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions. Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength.” RESPONSE: Today I will live in awareness of Satan’s subtle tactics to keep me from victory. I will stand against him and he will flee. PRAYER: Lord, help me remain close to You today and not allow the “things” and “busyness” of life to crowd You out. Standing Strong Through The Storm (SSTS) A daily devotional message by SSTS author Paul Estabrooks © 2011 Open Doors International. Used by permission ADVERTISEMENT    Join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for real-time persecution updates Subscription Info This email was sent to nikki.mcgann@taeinc.net by Bible Gateway, 5300 Patterson Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530 USA. This email is part of a devotional or newsletter that you signed up for on BibleGateway.com. If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please contact us at support@biblegateway.com. Manage all Bible Gateway subscriptions — Opt Out of all Bible Gateway communication

Waiting!!!!

Today's Truth
"I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry" (Psalm 40:1, NIV).

Friend to Friend
Patience is not my greatest virtue. I do not like to wait – for anyone or anything - which is precisely why you should never get in line behind me at the grocery store. It doesn't matter if there are two people or ten people in front of me, my line will invariably be the slowest line. I do not like to wait on God either … but was forced to do so when I found myself sitting at the bottom of a pit called clinical depression. I was empty and more tired than I had ever been in my life. I kept asking, "How did I get here?"

Depression is not an overnight phenomenon. I can honestly say that I don't know a single person who has climbed out of bed in the morning and said, "Hmmm … I think I will jump into the pit of depression today." Deliverance from that pit is usually not an overnight process either. It takes time and patience.

1. Wait. The psalmist simply says, "I waited." Waiting is not passive. Waiting is meant to be a time of preparation, a time of rest and healing,

• To wait means to accept the pit. Isaiah 45:3 (NIV) "I will give you hidden treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name."

Any time "LORD" is capitalized in Scripture, it means "Abba Father." This verse indicates that our Father has gone before us and buried a treasure or stored a secret in every dark moment or painful circumstance. The only way we can find the treasure or learn the secret is to pass through that darkness. Some things cannot be learned in the light. To wait means to accept the pit, knowing it is for our good.

• To wait means to admit there is a problem. Isaiah 40:29 (NLT) "He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak."

Emotional health begins at the point of emotional integrity with a willingness to say, "I need help!" As I shared in yesterday's devotion, my husband was the pastor of a large church in South Florida when clinical depression overwhelmed my life. We could choose to be transparent and real, or we could sweep my struggle under the rug. We concluded that in order to be right, we had to be real. Dan and I shared my battle with the staff, the deacons, and then with the entire church. Yes, we took a risk, but we learned an important lesson in doing so. A shared load is a lighter load. We were created to need each other.

• To wait means to be still. Psalm 40:1 "I waited …" To wait means to hope in and look for someone or something who will rescue us.

So much about God can never be known on the run. I was so wrapped up in serving God that I had failed to be wrapped up in Him. During those two years in the pit, I not only gave up every role of leadership, there were many times when I could not even attend church because of panic attacks. God taught me an important truth. He is more concerned with who I am than what I do. No one can take my place in His heart.

2. Be patient. It took twenty-two years for the McDonald's hamburger chain to make its first billion dollars. It took IBM forty-six years and Xerox sixty-three years to make their first billion. Harvey Mackay, in his book Swim with the Sharks, tells of an interview with the 88-year-old President of Japan's largest and most successful electrical enterprise. The interview went as follows:

Question: Mr. President, does your company have long-range goals?
Answer: "Yes."

Question: "How long are your long-range goals?"
Answer: "Two hundred and fifty years."

Question: "What do you need to carry them out?"
Answer: "Patience."

David said, "I waited patiently for the Lord." The word "patiently" means "without tiring and with perseverance." It took me many years to hit rock bottom. It took me two years to climb out of that pit, and I am still climbing. Yes, I still battle depression from time to time. Depression keeps me broken and on my face before God – and that is a good thing.

Depression may not be the problem you are facing, but at some point in life, we will all face some kind of pit. It may be a pit that we have dug with our own hands of wrong choices or it could be a pit that has been uniquely designed for us by the enemy. But a pit is a pit – a place of paralyzing fear and numbing doubt that is constantly fed by our human frailty and desperate attempts to escape the darkness.

The good news is that God is drawn to broken people. Psalm 40:1 says, "He turned to me." Notice it does not say that David turned to God. Honestly, I doubt David had the strength to turn to God … so God turned to him. God heard the cry of David and he will hear yours. I don't know if you are in a pit and need help or if someone you love is in that pit and needs your help, but one thing I do know is that the purpose of the pit is to purify and then to restore. Right now, surrender the broken pieces of your life to God. He can and will bring you out of the dark.

Let's Pray
Father, I am so tired. I can't hear Your voice or sense Your presence in my life. My faith is weak and I need Your strength to go on. Right now, I am laying the broken pieces of my life at Your feet and counting on You to come through for me.
In Jesus' name,
Amen.

Crossroad's Fellowship Short Term Mission

What does Crossroad's Fellowship Short Term Mission Means to Me!

 

 

Hard work that is seams never-ending but prepares you for the journey ahead

To be prepared for anything, but on the field to let God do His work

Structure, Structure, Structure-

Knowing that I am in safe hands of my leaders

To be in a loving environment with a team that has my back 

Bring people that would never function to day to day tasks together

Willing to come together for the work of God

Trust

Learning about God's Word

Bring hope to the people around the world

To be excepted no matter my background

Love

 

 

All these words describe the Short Term Mission at Crossroads and if this was never a program then I would never be stepping out in Faith to become a Full-time Missionary! Thank you!!!

Cindy Shriver

I have looked at this blank computer screen for hours on end trying to find the right words to describe this person who has had a great impacted to my life! I have prayed many hours for God to guide my words about this person He has blessed in my life! The only way to describe what Cindy Shriver means to me in to start from the begin…

The first time I met Cindy was at my first interview for short term missions to Romania. She sat in the back of the interview in a big black wing chair and barley said a word through the whole processes.  All though she didn’t say a word, I had a feeling that this was not going to be last time I see her! I had no idea what plans God had for her in my life, but I knew she was going to be a big part of God’s plan for me.

After the success of my first short term missions, I was asked if I ever thought about leading a short term team.  I jumped at the opportunity!! Through my process of getting ready for Romania, God was preparing me to take on this reasonability, but not the way I thought!  God never reveals His plan to us, if He did, I would never get out of the bed again!!!  I began taking the course that Cindy taught about become a leader for short term missions!!! This is when I had a chance to sit down and really get to know Cindy on a personal level! She doesn’t know this, but she became my mentor and found a personal spot in my heart!

Once the course was done, I began to think of the possibilities of leading my own team. This would have not been possible if it had not been for Cindy’s training and encourage me. I would have never thought I could do it. But and through my own sin, and God’s correction my life took a turn in different direction of suffering and waiting for God to really reveal the plans He had for me, and what part Cindy would play in it!

Through the year of suffering, Cindy became my mentor, and in the processes, she pushed me to face my sin, and to understand that God had forgiven me. She also reminded me that I could get through this not with my strength, but with God’s strength. She held out tissue to me, and listen to me struggle with my waiting, and my ever process of being refine by God. I lost a lot of friend during this time, but not Cindy, she kept pushing me into a deeper relationship with my Savoir! Telling me that God had big plans for me, and He was preparing me for something big! I just had to hold on to Him.

Then on August 27, 2013, I was getting ready to have lunch with Cindy about the possibility of getting proposal ready for leading a team in 2015 to Uganda, when I got a text that sent me down to depression again.  I now know it was God’s hand in this, and I would never have received what God was going to do through Cindy if I was not totally depended on Him at that time. I came into her office totally heart broken and crying. I started pouring my heart out to her again, and she was there again with tissues, but this time something was different! I began telling her about possibility of running a team to Uganda 2015 when she spoke the words that would forever change my life and my path. “I don’t know if the Church would go for Uganda, but that does not mean you can’t go!”

I looked at her as if she grew horns!! “Cindy! I am totally heartbroken, can’t even get up some mornings, how is God going to use me?” She just smiled at me, and said “You can do this Nikki! Do you remember what you said the first time I met you… You wanted to get up in the morning and hear the Devil say ‘Oh no she is awake’ you always wanted to be a missionary to Africa and this is the perfect time to do God’s work! I am behind you 100% on this!”  I just shook my head, and told her I would get back with her in a week.

Less than two days, I had a place to stay for year! And a plan for reaching the woman and children in Uganda! I will be leaving in September to start God’s work! This would never been a goal of mine if it had not been for Cindy! God has used her and her ministry at Crossroads to show me my true passion!

Cindy is someone that I value a lot, and she is a true blessing to my life. I pray every day for her and ministry that she does! She has mentored me through the highest points of my life, and the lowest points of my life. She allows God to work through her to bring the best out of people, and to push them beyond their comfort zones. I don’t know where I would be if it had not been for Cindy and the work she does! She is a true woman of faith and allows God to work through her to touch many lives that want to work in missions locally and globally.

 I am part of mission small group who does mission locally and will be heading out to become a full time missionary in Uganda, Africa. She took a helpless, broken girl, and with help of God and turn her in to a Godly woman who is ready to be used by God for His Glory!! I am asking everyone this week to pray for Cindy Shriver! For God to use her and to use her ministry that she is so passion about, to reach the people of Crossroad Fellowship, if she had not been leading teams and listening to God then I would still have be moving through life as a Luke-warm Christian, and not an on fire-missionary heading to the unknown!!

God has place Cindy where He wants her and where she is doing His glory! To take her out of this would be going against God’s plans for her! She has a deep relationship with God and would move forward if He called her too! I am very blessed and very thankful that God has placed her where she is!!

A Second Chace

A daily devotional based on the New Living Translation view online   January 12, 2014 A Second Chance Jonah 3:1-10   Read When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: "No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all. People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us." When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened. (Jonah 3:6-10)   Reflect The people of Nineveh believed Jonah's message and repented. What a miraculous effect God's words had on them! Their repentance stood in stark contrast to Israel's stubbornness. The people of Israel had heard many messages from the prophets, but they had refused to repent. The people of Nineveh only needed to hear God's message once. That's why Jesus later said that at the judgment, the men of Nineveh will stand up to condemn the Israelites for their failure to repent (Matthew 12:39-41). God responded in mercy by canceling his threatened punishment. Through the prophet Jeremiah, God had said that any nation on which he had pronounced judgment would be saved if they repented (Jeremiah 18:7-8). So, God forgave Nineveh, just as he had forgiven Jonah. The purpose of God's judgment is correction, not revenge. He is always ready to show compassion to anyone willing to seek him.   Respond Jonah had run away from God, but was given a second chance to participate in God's work. You may feel as though you are disqualified from serving God because of past mistakes. But serving God is not an earned position—no one qualifies for God's service. But God still asks us to carry out his work. You may yet have another chance. It is not our hearing God's word that pleases him, but our responding obediently to it.   Trademarks | Unsubscribe | Edit Profile 2014 © Tyndale House Publishers 351 Executive Drive, Carol Stream Illinois 60188