The Exorcism

No, I am not referring to the movie. I actually witnessed one yesterday. As our usual Thursday's go, we went to Remand Home in the afternoon, which is a home for teens who have committed crimes as they wait to go to court. We did a normal program but instead, at the end we had a "deliverance" session for kids who needed prayer and healing of diseases or habits. We definitely stirred up some demonic activity because as we were walking back to the van to leave, we hear someone screaming and waling. We looked and saw a girl that was unable to stand and was being walked/dragged by some other team members to a more private location. My first thought was that she was being possessed because of how she was acting and what all the kids had just been through with our program. She started to draw a crowd so they brought her into her room, which everyone else, including me followed. I was allowed to enter and pray over her as she was laying on the floor convulsing and screaming. It wasn't the exorcism's that you see on tv where their heads spin around or their eyes go black or they start spewing out Latin, but this was just as scary because I knew the girl was being attacked. They said she would regain consciousness every once and a while and said she was being dragged into darkness and every time someone would say Jesus' name, it would burn. When we got in the room she was still waling and convulsing as 3 other team members were praying, holding her down and demanding the spirit to leave as she was closing her ears and shaking her head. The other Remand Home girls who shared a room with her gathered around her and starting singing Christian songs. We then were asked to leave because we needed to get home, but they said that when they left her, she was sleeping. They also found a voodoo necklace thing around her waist which they took off and later we burnt it at our place. The car ride home was quiet as you can imagine as us American's were trying to process what we had just been witnessed to and a part of. The Ugandan's said that demon possession is common here because of all the witchcraft and voodoo. A lot of the kids at remand home had gone to witch doctors to get healed, which means they are making a pact with the devil. It was definitely an eventful day and one that I will never forget. It just makes me love and thank God even more for saving me from such evil.


Lauren