MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 05-29-2013

Greetings! We are traveling hard and making good headway with our meetings. We’ve been down to Louisiana, then Florida with a stop in Pensacola to visit some friends (Stephen Spilger and Kristen and Garrett Tracht) at PCC, where some of my kids are wanting to go. It was instructive, getting to tour the campus – seems like a great school. Then we swung back home by way of a meeting in Georgia so I could swap vans with another missionary (I made sure I covered it with Obama bumper stickers first, Nate Wright – kidding!). 

We had another meeting with our friends Bill and Tresia Gillespie at Maranatha Baptist here in St. Louis. Then it was an all day jaunt the next day to North Carolina for some more meetings. Those meetings went great, and then we got back to NW Pennsylvania for a missions conference. Thanks to a cancellation, we got some extra meetings, and my kids got to spend a lot of time with their new friends. It was very pleasant just to be stationary. We spent some time hiking in the Alleghany National Forest, which was gorgeous. It felt like home in Uganda, being in a small town, surrounded by green trees.

We have loads more meetings this year. Pray for our safe travels. Pray I will be successful in raising more support. I need to make up the difference of what we didn’t have when we went to the field under supported, and also what we have lost in the way of churches dropping or reducing support, and also the losses brought about by inflation and the meteoric rise in cost of living. 

We have gathered many books. I heard from a lady in Connecticut that has a book re-selling business. I will be able to walk through her 4,000 square foot warehouse and pick out whatever we want. Also, she may have 20 school desks and chairs to take back with us as well. Pray we’ll be able to raise the funds for shipping. Keep bringing us boxes of books. We will be carrying those in our van back to St. Louis every time to add to the pile.

God bless you!