MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 02-10-2024
Greetings everybody. In case you were still wondering, we made it back to Uganda!
Thank you all for praying. I think this was quite possibly the smoothest return trip to Uganda we’ve ever had.
Anna got us packed up in record time. This time around, I put Apple AirTags in each piece of luggage so I could track our bags in realtime. It was kind of cool. The minute they’d unload the bags from the hold of the plane, I could see the bags moving around on my phone. Before any of our bags rolled out in Entebbe, I knew we had all of them. What a relief!
The folks in customs barely gave us a second look. So no hassles this time. Our mechanic met us with our car. We made it to the hotel without trouble. We spent a couple of days resting, in which our mechanic fixed a few extra things. Then we traveled the 4 hours home.
There were no rats waiting for us this time. I hired a lady to clean while we were away, check for rats, and put out poison if needed. That did the trick. No rodents and their attendant mess awaited us, and we were able to go straight to bed without having to spend 6 to 7 hours cleaning first. It was a blessing to be able to come back into our home with ease.
We are at home, still getting over jet lag, and working our way through the list of things that you always have to do when you first get back.
Several people gave gifts adding up to a substantial amount of money for the work out at the camp. I almost have enough now to rebuild our Isanja church building. Keep praying. This is a good start, but we still have several humanitarian relief projects desperately needed out at the camp. It would also be a blessing for our support to increase a little more.
Pray for the coming year. We have lots to do. I want to see God accomplish much in 2024.
We are praying for you. Politics in America affects us here too. I am praying that evil will be defeated and that righteousness will triumph.
God bless and keep you.
MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 01-05-2024
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I hope you had a great holiday, and were able to spend it with family. Most of our children spent Christmas with us in St. Louis, and we were able to be with our whole extended family. Wonderful!
Yesterday, my son Ethan and daughter-in-law Juliet informed me that Anna and I are now grandparents. In September, we will have a new Huckabee in our family. SO COOL! Pray for the new young’un, and for Juliet. We are praying for a smooth pregnancy, healthy growth, and a complication-free delivery.
As of this letter, six churches in total have voted to begin monthly financial support! This is an answer to prayer! Please continue to pray that of the 19 churches we visited, that God will bring in sufficient missions giving to their budget, and they will be motivated to support us. We need it.
We are flying back to Uganda on January 29. Pray for our trip. International travel is exhausting, highly stressful, and carries an element of risk.
- Pray we will make all our connecting flights.
- Pray that all our luggage will arrive with us and not be lost or stolen.
- Pray that the customs agents in Entebbe will not harass us over our personal belongings.
- Pray for our health, that we will remain healthy before, during, and after the trip.
- Pray for safety on the road back to Mbarara.
- Pray for smooth transition back into the work.
We are very much looking forward to going home and getting back to work. We have a number waiting to be baptized and several marriages planned in our churches.
This year, our goals are to 1) continue training men and women 2) train more leaders 3) finish needed projects at the camp, such as clean water storage tanks, rebuilding several of the church buildings, and repairing our national pastor’s home. You can find more details here: OUTSTANDING PROJECTS
Please pray people will continue to be saved and added to the churches. Pray for the refugees. They are being denied rations, because the government of Uganda likely wants them to repatriate whether it is safe for them to do so or not, and the United Nations is a corrupt and godless organization.
God bless and keep you in this New Year!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” Isaiah 9:6-7