Who would have guessed

It’s always funny to me when God uses our current situation and ties it into a prayer request. I told you how I joined a running group on Monday nights. I joined it selfishly just for me, to keep in shape, and to keep sane. Running helps me process information because when I am running I am not talking to anyone and there isn’t much else to do other than think. So the running club was just for me…to get away and have some time to think.

As it turns out God intended something a bit different. I have gotten to know some of the people at the Monday night run and many of them are business men or rotary club members, etc. Meaning they are well connected in the Kampala community. So when conversation led to me talking about what I do here in Uganda I was excited to tell them about Dwelling Places. The more people who know about us the better right? I didn’t expect anything other than an opportunity to just share what is happening at Dwelling Places. Well as it turns out there is this guy who has like 20 pairs of sneakers he got as a donation and was waiting to find someplace to donate them. Our children’s home seemed like a good fit and we are now receiving 20 pairs of shoes next week. Praise God. Most of our kids have flip flops but very few have actual laced sneakers to run and play in. I cannot wait to see their faces next week when they receive they very own pair of shoes.

I would like to just say I take no credit for this…this is totally God and his timing. I mean I had no intentions of using the running group to advocate for Dwelling Places but as it turns out God had better ideas.

The other cool thing that happened this week came through another unexpected avenue…Frisbee. I have started to play ultimate Frisbee with the kids on Fridays. There was a contact made through the running club and these 4 guys come out every Friday to play with the kids at DP. This turned into us also taking some kids on Sunday to their practices in town. So now on Sunday evenings I go and play ultimate Frisbee with a bunch of local guys and girls. We started talking last Sunday about how to connect DP to their Frisbee league. They want to host a tournament in November. They would invite about 10 teams to come play and the coolest part (to me anyways) is they want to use the money raised and donate it to Dwelling Places. They are going to seek sponsors for the tournament to cover costs and they would have a raffle and all money from the raffle would be donated to Dwelling Places. They would take the money for cost of admission to support the league.

Not only will Dwelling Places receive a monetary donation from the event but they will receive publicity we could never pay for. Again I am amazed at how God has connected seemingly random events in my life to be used for his ministry and the work I was brought here to do. It is so cool to see how all of the pieces in our lives can be used for God’s glory.