Today marks 51 years since Uganda became an independent nation. It is a public holiday so we have had the day off to relax and enjoy time with our friends. The festival that happened on Sunday was to celebrate Uganda's independence and for some reason is held the Sunday prior. The festival started only last year (Jubilee year), but I believe the plan is to keep it as a yearly event now.
In about 30 minutes, we will be leaving to go and attend a youth dance competition that is being held at one of the large churches here in Kampala. If you have been following the blog, you know about my friend Joanna. If you haven't been following you need to go back and read about her and the ministry God called her to. Joanna's kids will be competing this evening so we are very excited to go and watch them and to vote for them so they can win the competition. Voting is by text message and since these children are all street children, they have no one to vote for them. We are taking three friends along to vote for the kids. At the last competition, the judges judged them as the top dance team, but they didn't have enough votes to win. We'll see what happens tonight. We know it will be a fun filled evening with lots of high energy music and dancing. We can't wait to see the kids perform for real! Each time we have been there to visit, the children have sung and danced for us and we have enjoyed it very much, but I think tonight will be even better! We'll let you know!
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