One of the principles I like to teach is: When you're in the bullseye of God's assignment for you, it always comes with supernatural favor. On Wednesday evening, the group of businessmen I have been taking around East Africa (YPO) hosted a reception and dinner of other YPO members. We were delighted when, a few weeks ago, the Speaker of the East Africa Legislative Assembly accepted our invitation to be the guest of honor and main speaker at the event. To our great disappointment, we were informed earlier that day that Speaker Kitega would not be able to come, as he was still recovering from a bad fall two days earlier. He kindly sent a representative in his place, a Member of Parliament, who did a fine job at the event.
Speaker Kitega is the top government official in all of east Africa. As such, he is over all five presidents. I had the pleasure of meeting him last January when I was scouting for the Journey of Compassion that is starting tonight.
On Thursday evening, our YPO team flew from Nairobi, Kenya to Entebbe, Uganda and then drove to a town near Kalonga where we spent the next day looking at the various projects there.
Now, for the favor part of this story: One of our team, Viv was sitting in business class at a window seat. A few minutes before takeoff, an African gentlemen came in looking for his seat, which Viv was inadvertently sitting in. The man was happy to take the seat beside Viv. They got talking about what each was doing in Uganda. Viv told him a bit about Impact Nations, and the man said, "I was supposed to speak at an event for them last evening, but I was unable to do so." That's right––of all the people on all the planes, the Speaker was sitting beside Viv. They were able to talk for over an hour. When we landed, the Speaker had us follow him past security into a VIP lounge where he shared his heart for east Africa, asked questions about Impact and YPO, and answered our questions. It was an amazing time, and so much more than would have happened in the context of a meal and reception with other businessmen.
The assignment always comes with favor.
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