Uganda Trip #15

My relationship with Uganda has been ten years in the making. The last six were particularly meaningful and demanding. My recently completed trip was my 20th and final trip – unless God throws be a curve ball. On a personal note, this afternoon I will join five of my six siblings and head to Poland, […]

Sometimes travel is not a straight line! More on that later. In today’s post, I want to emphasize the importance of partnerships in ministry, especially in overseas endeavors. The picture accompanying this post highlights some of these partnerships. The top row consists of three brothers from Alabama. Yancy Carpenter is the president of Four Corners […]

Heading Home! Today we said goodbye to our on-again, off-again home in Abaana’s Hope, north of Gulu. We drove away from the compound for the last time over a six-year stretch. Mike, Stu, and I waited in an airport terminal about the size of the Refuge Room, which is shown on the picture that accompanies […]

GRADUATION! Today (Saturday) is graduation. For three years sixty-eight trainees took two weeks, three times a year, plus meetings in between. Today is a day to celebrate. The people in the picture that accompanies this post are “my guys,” – the group I worked with. The man on the far right is Vincent, who will […]

The picture that accompanies this post is called, “The Gate of No Return.” I’ll get back to that shortly. Mike, Stu and I had another day trip today. Classes are all over. Students are taking their finals and tomorrow is graduation.  We made our way to Fort Patiko. Here is the story related to this […]

Today, Mike, Stu, and I took a ½ day for some local sightseeing. In the past we tended to get here, teach and get home. The exception was with a first timer we would take an extra day for a safari. This trip we have four days in between our last class and Saturday’s graduation. […]

“It is done” from Revelation 21:6 declared trainee Beba Stephen (his picture accompanies this post). This is the very last presentation I would hear from this cohort that started three years ago. Each person in my learning group was to give a ten-minute presentation from a text in Revelation, and this gifted musician and pastor […]

My sleeplessness on Friday night/Saturday morning gave me a little gift. I watched Hudson High football live against Menomonie. I attend every Raider game I can, and it’s good to know the two Fridays (Saturday in Uganda) I’m here I can watch the team. FCC’r Ben Englund (we baptized him in the last couple of […]

Is life a little different here? The picture for this post is of a farmer’s market tied into the church that hosts the Pastoral Training Center (PTC), which we teach. It’s the first Friday of the month (September 5th), and that means it’s pay day. The campus here employs 141 people and there are farmers […]

Tomorrow (Thursday) I am back in the classroom. The thirteen pastors I am training, one Lead Trainer (LT) and myself will spend five days developing tools to help us effectively understand and communicate apocalyptic writing contained in the Bible, focusing on the book of Revelation. In our last cohort, I couldn’t make every unit we […]

I was picked up in Hudson at 9:15 am on Sunday (5:15 pm Gulu, Uganda time) and finally arrived at our very familiar guest house where we (Mike Evans, Stu Dix and me) will live together for the next two weeks at 5:30 pm on Tuesday. It took two full days to get here that […]