Rooster Honorarium

Pastor Mark Bryant was here for a few days with some businessmen from his church in Boise, Idaho. We drove 2 ½ hours to a small village where the church was dedicating a new building. Here you can see a picture of their old church, which would allow rain all over the attenders.




Over 250 people showed up; many walking as many as 4 miles in order to be there. They are very excited to have a tin roof on their new building! The service lasted 4 hours, with two choirs, two sermons, an update from a local government official and about 8 greetings, including one from me.


They were dressed in their very finest for the occasion. Traditional Ugandan dresses are very colorful and extravagant.

They gave me some sugar cane as a gift, but they gave a rooster and some eggs to Pastor Mark as an honorarium for speaking. These people are the poorest of the poor and have nothing else to give. The rooster is the highest honor, they could give a guest speaker. It sure was entertaining to drive over two hours with a rooster in the car!