MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 10-03-2005

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Howdy! We're back. Having the baby went well, and the recovery seems to be going well for Anna. Gaelin is progressively sleeping more and more at night, so it looks as if we're on track to getting him to sleep through the night. Our home church's Missions Conference went well. Dr. Ron Bragg, our director with BIMI, was the main speaker, and we had Paul Strosneider (started Ephraim Church for the Deaf in St. Louis, MO) and Don Brush (new head of Pioneer Baptist Ministries), in addition to us. Anna and the new young'un weathered it well, but we made sure she laid low this week to make sure the both of them would be able to make the trip to Rhode Island tomorrow. The great news is that our church's Faith Promise giving increased dramatically this year, which is a huge answer to prayer.

Tomorrow, we'll be driving to Lamar, PA, and from there to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island on Wednesday, for a missions conference in Narragansett Bay Baptist Church (Pastor Todd Stricklin). Dr. Ron Bragg will be the main speaker there as well. We're all looking forward to it. The next week, we'll be in Southington, CT for a missions conference in Central Baptist Church (Pastor Jim Townsley). Pray for us as we travel, and travel with a newborn to boot. Pray for the conferences, that we'll be a blessing to them. Pray for Anna. She's doing well, but she did just have a baby, so she tends to be rather tired these days. Pray for her continued health. We'll home for almost a week afterwards, and then we have another conference in Fort Dodge, IA (Harvest Baptist Church, Pastor Marvin Smith).

If anybody's interested, I have new pictures up on the website under Mission Pics. Also, the new BIMI produced video about the work in Soroti (where we'll be) has been released, and I've placed copies up on the website, under General Info. You can watch it streaming in your browser, or you can download a copy in either Quicktime or Windows Media formats. It demonstrates very well the great opportunity for ministry that God has created in Uganda, and the urgency of why we need to get there as missionaries.