MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-26-2005

Howdy, everybody! Can you believe it's already almost Memorial Day? Our meeting in Vinton, IA went well last weekend went great. We were able to challenge folks with the needs of worldwide evangelism, and be an encouragement to Pastor Collins and his family as well. Vinton is a beautiful little town, in the heart of Iowa corn country. In fact, their county is the number one producer per acre of sweet corn in the world. I'm glad there's a Baptist church here. One item of note here: Vinton is home to a school for the blind, the same school for the blind where Laura Ingalls Wilder's older sister intended after she lost her eyesight. Pretty cool, eh?

Tomorrow, we're driving to Kansas City to be in a missions conference in Trinity Independent Baptist Church (Pastor Tim Boos), so pray for us. After we get home on Monday, we're home for a couple days, and then it's off to Walnut Ridge, AK and Gethsemene Baptist Church for their Missions Conference. My sister-in-law, Esther, is driving down on Saturday to get the kids, and then, immediately after church on Sunday, we're driving to Chattanooga, TN for our second week of candidate school at BIMI headquarters. Whew! So pray for the kids while we're away, and for my mother and father, Jim and Sue Huckabee, who'll be staying in our home to keep them. Lots ahead in this summer, so pray for us!