Come and go with me to my Father’s house

From Marsha Campbell

Audio Adrenaline’s popular song, “Big House,” celebrates a vision of a big ole house where all are lovingly welcomed into a joyful extended family.

It’s a house with room for everyone– where we can play and run…
I don’t know where you lay your head
or where you call your home
I don’t know where you eat your meals
or where you talk on the phone
I don’t know if you got a cook
a butler or a maid
I don’t know if you got a year
with a hammock in the shade

I don’t know if you got some shelter
say a place to hide
I don’t know if you live with friends
in whom you can confide
I don’t know if you got a family
say a mom or dad
I don’t know if you feel love at all
but I bet you wish you had

Come and go with me
to my Fathers house
Come and go with me
to my Fathers house

It’s a big big house
with lots and lots a room
A big big table
with lots and lots of food
A big big yard
where we can play football
A big big house
Its my Fathers house

All I know is a big ole house
with rooms for everyone
All I know is lots a land
where we can play and run
All I know is you need love
and I’ve got a family
All I know is your all alone
so why not come with me?

In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (John 14:2-3 NIV)

Preparing a place, a village, a home with lots of rooms is exactly what our partner, Church of Uganda (COU) is doing for hundreds of children who are all alone—children at the end of the line. Brick by brick they are building homes for children who have been orphaned, abandoned and lost hope. Many have lost their childhood and forgotten how to play and run.

COU has embraced the vision of “adopting” these children into their parish community family. They have collectively chosen to name each village, The Father’s House, as a way of keeping their mission and vision alive. In each Father’s House, the children are being loved and nurtured into a future with hope.

Recently, our vision trip team traveled to Uganda and experienced The Father’s Houses, in Lira, Gulu, Kabale & Rukore. It is with great joy, I will share some stories of our journey along the way.

So, come and go with me…to The Father’s House!

Let’s play and run!

Marsha Campbell

*Credit: Audio Adrenaline’s “Big House”