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In December of 2006, Katie Davis traveled to Uganda. She was immediately captivated and fell in love with the people and the culture. While in Uganda, Katie met Pastor Isaac Wagaba who implored her to come teach Kindergarten at his orphanage in Buziika, Uganda, called Canaan Children's Transit Center.

In the summer of 2007, Katie returned to Uganda to teach Kindergarten at Canaan. As she walked the children home from class each day, she was shocked to see the sheer number of school-aged children sitting idly on the side of the road or working in the fields. It was then that it came to Katie's attention that there were very few government-run public schools in Uganda, and none in the area where she was working. Most schools in Uganda are privately run and therefore require school fees for attendance. Due to the extreme poverty in this region of Uganda, many children are unable to afford schooling.

God laid it on Katie's heart to start a child sponsorship program, matching orphaned children who are unable to afford schooling with sponsors in the US. Sponsors pay$300.00 per year to send these children to school and provide school supplies, 2 hot meals each day, and all needed minor medical care. Originally planning to have 40 children in the program, Katie had signed up 150 by January 2008. By the grace of God,in December 2008 the sponsorship program had successfully sent all 150 children to school for a full year and provided them will all life's essentials.

This incredible woman of God is only 20 years old! She left everything she knew in America, traveled to Uganda and adopted 13 children!!! She strives everyday to bring Christ's love into the lives of Uganda's "unwanted" children!

Master of Disguise

27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands [are] the hands of Esau.

27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

We all know this story from Genesis 27 in which Jacob pretends to be his brother Esau so that his father Isaac will bless him as the firstborn instead of Esau. So what exactly is going on here, and what does it have to do with us. Well let’s look at what Jacob desires and how he goes about obtaining it. Jacob desires his father’s blessing, and even more specifically the blessing of the first born son. Jacob obtains this blessing by pretending to be Isaac’s first born son Esau, using both his name and his raiment. So Jacob comes before his father and assumes the identity of the first born son, in order to receive blessings from his father. This is exactly what we do. We use the name and assume the identity of Christ the Son, in order to receive blessings from our Father. This same concept can be found in 1st Samuel 18:4 where Jonathan places his garments on David. The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed, and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed. It is ONE book and it’s all about HIM!!!

The Day of Double Blessing

Since we just discussed Christ’s first miracle at the wedding in Cana, I thought I would mention an interesting fact about this passage regarding what day the wedding was held.

We know from Scripture that this wedding took place on the "third day"

“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:” John 2:1

Just like with our week, the third day of the week for the Jewish people is Tuesday.

Day 1) Sunday
Day 2) Monday
Day 3) Tuesday
Day 4) Wednesday
Day 5) Thursday
Day 6) Friday
Day 7) Saturday (The Jewish Sabbath, the day The Lord rested.)

So why is this wedding taking place on “the third day” a Tuesday?

Well for the answer to that question, we have to go all the way back to the first chapter of Genesis.

You will find when you read in Genesis that God would create, declare those things “good” aka bless those things (the Hebrew word is Towb Strong’s H2896) and then conclude the day.

This declaration of "good" happened on the first day (Sunday) of course.

4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:4-5

On the second day (Monday) however, God does not declare anything "good". I have to agree with Him on this one, there is nothing good about Monday's!!

6] And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7] And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:6-8

So again, nothing is declared good on the second day

God makes up for the lack of any blessings or declarations of "good" on the second day, by declaring two things "good" on the third day (Tuesday).

9] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10] And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

1st declaration of "good"

12] And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

2nd declaration of "good"

13] And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Genesis 1:9-10 & 12-13

Since God declared that what he had created was "good" 2 times on the third day (Tuesday), to the Jewish people the third day came to be known as the “Day of Double Blessing”

So all good little Jewish girls, if possible, will hold their weddings on Tuesday, the third day, the “Day of Double Blessing”

And it was no different for the young couple whose wedding Jesus attended in Cana.