Rain on Sunday morning

Here's something you don't think about in the States: rain.  Does rain effect church attendance in the US?  Well, if you're in Seattle, the first spring/summer Sunday WITHOUT rain may effect church attendance.  In Kampala, rain has a dramatic effect on everything.  Only about 7 families who attend Kampala Lutheran Church own a vehicle (counting us missionaries).  The rest of the members rely upon taxi-buses and motorcycle-taxis (called boda-bodas) to get to church.  Which means, for them, if it's raining outside they'll likely be sloshing through mud for a ways to get to the paved roads and then they'll wait in the rain until the next taxi-bus comes along.  If they don't live on a taxi-bus route that passes by the congregation they'll be standing out in the rain as they transfer between taxi-busses at least once.  The taxi-bus drops you on the main road, about 150 yards from the church tent.  The other option is the boda-boda which will deliver you all the way to the church.  But who wants to take a ride on the back of a motorcyle in the rain and mud with the added danger of extra-slippery roads to get to church?  We were down almost 30% because of this morning's rain.  I guess the rainy seasons here are going to be like the summer slowdown in the US.  Pray those members who can't make it in the rain will rejoin us when the weather clears.