So the Sunday before Christmas, I went to KPC (http://kpcministries.org/) for church. It's the largest church in Uganda, with a combined congregation of over 20,000 (I don’t remember where exactly I heard this from though) and has services that are quite western styled, not a huge surprise given that the senior pastor and his wife are Canadians. If any of you have heard of the Watoto Children’s Choir (I hadn’t heard of them before, but what do I know? Apparently, they’re quite well-known and I think they make annual trips to the Canada, the US, and Europe), the choir is one of KPC’s many ministries. It also seems like all the expats in the Kampala area congregate there for service; in fact, KPC is probably the highest concentration of expats that I’ve seen anywhere in the country thus far!
Anyway, as you can see from the picture, KPC puts on quite a Christmas production. It’s a inspiring presentation, utilizing the several hundred strong KPC choir, the angelic Watoto Children’s Choir, an awesome acappella group, some gutsy break dancers, lots of ballerina dancers (I haven’t yet learned to appreciate them as much as the others), and a really, really good live band. So here I was, sitting in a church in East Africa, and it’s like Christmas came and hit me in the face. You see, I’d just gotten off for Christmas break a few days earlier and, outside of Kampala, there really isn’t much sign of Christmas to be found. I followed up the presentation by rushing back to Another Hope to help prepare for their Christmas Party, the largest event of the year for the kids. In the end, it was one of the best days that I’ve had in Uganda thus far, and (or maybe because) I got a pretty big dose of Christmas all at once to make up for the lack of Christmas that I’d had up to that point.
Oh yea, and me and the volunteers got to bring the older kids to see the KPC Christmas presentation which was pretty cool for them because I don’t think they’d ever seen a performance of that magnitude before, and pretty cool for us volunteers to watch the expressions of joy on the kids faces, just priceless.
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