Love Your Neighbors

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31

 Welcome to our little neighborhood in Northern Uganda. We currently share a compound with five other families and have since last June. However, when we first moved here, there were nine children running around. Now we are left with only three. There has been a lot of transition, with families headed back to their home countries, or moving because of new jobs. Whatever the situation, the community dynamics change with the coming and going of tenants. 
With all of the change we've been experiencing in our compound, God has really been speaking to me about Mark 12:30-31. It's a verse that I have tried to live out, but probably not with as much attention as deserved. However, despite the fact that our main purpose is to serve the pastors and people of Uganda, I also desire to serve my neighbors. These people are after all, our community. 

A few weeks ago we hosted a compound cultural potluck. It started about an hour and a half late, but the food and conversation was amazing. Let me say it again...the food was amazing!! There was such a variety of cultural foods and plenty left over.  We have many nations represented in our little compound including Korea, India, Uganda, USA and Canada. It was a great way to get to know one another, especially with new tenants recently moving in. 

It's been such a blessing to create a little community here while we all live far from our families and friends. We look out for one another and do our best to help when we can. Community is essential for us to serve here in Uganda, and we've been truly blessed with the neighbours we have. We look forward to deepening our relationships and definitely enjoying

more ethnic foods!