Hello friends! We are living the life of adventure right now. So far
despite our brushes with malaria, pneumonia, typhoid, crazy bus rides,
tiring physical labor, learning new languages everywhere we go and
seeing many people come to a saving knowledge of Jesus, we can
officially say we are now truly getting the missionary experience. We
are in Sebei, Uganda near the border of Kenya, way up in the beautiful
green mountains with waterfalls all around. We are living with Reverend
Moses and his family and working with an Anglican Diocese out here. When
we showed up we drove to the top of the mountain and stopped on the
side of a severely muddy, red clay road and found 20 children around us,
many of whom grabbed our bags and carried them (some on their head) to
the house we were going to stay in. The home is a mudded house with dirt
floors and no electricity. The restrooms are outside, one metal shack
with rocks to pee on and another metal shack a little bit further off
with a hole in the ground for “other” types of business. We eat in the
morning in a separate dining room shack and at night by lantern light in
the main house. We are sleeping on beds which are pretty comfortable
but there is a family of mice that gets extremely frisky at night and it
can sometimes be difficult to sleep for fear of them crawling along
walls or the roof. Missionaries have endured worse and our contacts here
are truly wonderful and gentle men and women of God who have tried to
pack as much into our time here as possible.
things planned for us this month including door to door evangelism,
hospital visits, working with Children, speaking in Sunday church,
ministering to couples and young adults, and Catherine and I already
spoke and gave an altar call in a school yesterday to about 150
students. We talked about abstinence and God’s call on their lives. At
the end of our time here in Sebei, we are taking a bus back to Kampala
to run a youth conference in the city, which Catherine and I will be
helping to lead worship for.
so blogs may be scarce and pictures scarcer, but we have lots of amazing
pictures and videos to share with you very soon. After our time in
Kampala running the youth conference we will be flying to Dublin,
Ireland for a one week World Race conference called The Awakening www.theworldrace.org/awakening and
then we will be off to Ukraine. Our anniversary is on August 18 so we’re
excited to celebrate three years of marriage in Uganda and we hope to
enjoy some belated anniversary time in Ireland.
We are sooooo close to being fully funded. We are only $2000 away!
Please pray about giving and help us finish fund raising as soon as
possible! Thanks so much for following our journey.
