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MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DRILY KANSAN
ERNATIONAL
Students teach Rock Chalk chant to Ugandans
AMELIA ARVESEN
news@kansan.com
In the African village of Nakivumbi, more than 8,000 miles from Lawrence, a crowd of Ugandans sang the Rock Chalk chant.
Jordann Bell, a senior from Ellsworth, led the chant during a mission trip earlier in June with a team of students from the Christian campus ministry, Called to Greatness.
"In that moment, even though there's so much hunger and lack of emotional support for those children,
nothing else matters in the world just because they're so joyful and so carefree," Bell said. "They were just excited to be in our presence and we were excited to be in theirs."
Even though English is taught in the Ugandan schools, a
language barrier still exists. She said the ministry connected with the people in three villages through a love of for music and singing.
A YouTube video captures the chant, but Bell said what the video didn't show were the children singing Bible songs and praising God.
"They had the chance to welcome us and invite us into their school family and we got to share that too," said Josh Prescott, a Called to Greatness intern.
I can't settle for a life of mediocrity after what I've seen there.
The main purpose of the mission trip was to share Bible teachings and interact with the people in the villages. She said it gave them an opportunity to love the people in a part of the world with material and relational poverty.
"Even if they look, speak, live and believe differently, they still have the same wants, needs, desires to love one another and have a sense of family
JOSH PRESCOTT Intern at Called to Greatness
like we do," Bell said.
like we do, didn't.
Some of the villages, she said, lacked electricity and running water but even in such conditions, the people were happy.
Prescott said when he returned from the two week trip,he felt incredibly thankful
for the opportunities in America.
"I can't settle for a life of mediocrity after what I've seen there," Prescott said.
Edited by Kaitlyn Klein
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Clockwise from top left: Jordann Bell, Brennan Keller and Denton Keller pose with children from a village in Uganda, where they spent two weeks of their summer serving with the Called to Greatness, a Christian campus ministry.
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