Uganda: the Pearl of Africa by Taylor Stewart
February 17th, 2009 by KPIC AdminEvery time I leave America’s borders to visit another nation, I am always thankful of the blessings our country offers. It also affords me the opportunity to gain a broader perspective of the sea of humanity in other cultures that carry the beautiful image of God. Having ministered in thirty nations over the years, my latest trip to Uganda was a life changing one.
I am always amazed when in a third world context how the human spirit can be so effervescent, alive, joyful, and engaging in the midst of great hardship, disease, and poverty. Uganda is such a place. Coined the “Pearl of Africa” by Winston Churchill due to it’s lush green foliage surrounding beautiful Lake Victoria, Uganda is at the same time slammed with a poverty and AIDS epidemic that needs supernatural intervention. God’s community, the Church, has been granted His perspective of compassion for the nations. Jesus modeled this compassion as He looked upon the masses as “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd”. He graciously fed their hungry and healed their sick.
