Our day at the "M-O-S-K"

For a class assignment we were tasked with observing a worship service of a different religion that we would  find in our new country. Since Islam is on the rise in Uganda we decided to visit a mosque in Charlotte. Now  this was a new experience for us and we were unsure of how it would go. Levi told me "I don't want to go to the M-O-S-K tomorrow" Hey, you've got to give him credit for spelling "mosque" phonetically.

So on Friday, a few families went together for the visit and it was a beneficial experience. The Imam was friendly and met with us for 30 minutes afterwards to answer any questions we had. There is a lot of debate in the Christian community about how to most effectively reach out to Muslims with the love of Christ. Although we didn't get into any deep discussions during our mosque visit, it has helped us to begin to think through some of these issues.

Following this we headed over to an East African restaurant but it was closed. Thankfully next door was an Ethiopian restaurant whose owner was from Eritrea. Below is a shot of our time there. I caught Christine off guard with my photo.