Potato Chips and Popcorn?

 1/13/12

 I came to Uganda with the mindset that the culture here would be completely different than American culture, and I am continually surprised when I am proved wrong.  Yesterday my family served me potato chips (or crisps) for tea time, and then for breakfast this morning I had popcorn and a banana! (an interesting combination but delicious nonetheless).  My brothers like much of the same music a typical American teenager would listen to.  They love Kanye West, Ludacris, and they probably know more American hip-hop artists than I do… Jonah’s favorite movies are Salt, Too Fast Too Furious, Saw, the Bourne Series, X-Men, and more typical American movies.  My brothers are way cooler than I am J 

What surprised me even more than the similarity between the two cultures is the similarity between the worship styles of Ugandan Christians and American Christians.  I almost expected to come here and be refreshed and renewed in my faith as I experienced passionate African worship and Christians who are so open and alive in Christ.  What I have discovered, though, is that God is no different here than he is back home, and he works in the lives of the Ugandans just the same as he works in the lives of Americans.  Ugandans worship the same way we do, and they struggle with having passionate, unswerving faith just like all Christians do.  While I am slightly disappointed I have not been instantly lit on fire for God just by being in Africa (sarcasm…), it is slightly relieving and intriguing to know that God is present equally in all his creation, whether African, American, or any other nationality.