MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 04-01-2020

Greetings, fellow China flu combatants! 2020 is shaping up to be quite a year, isn’t it?

Today was the day we were to fly back home to Uganda. We had our tickets bought. We had wrapped up a busy schedule of meetings in churches, working hard to raise more support, raise money for building projects, and then get ourselves back to Uganda and get to work. God clearly had other plans.

Within three days it all changed. We had just returned to Missouri from the hot zone in Florida. We were prepping for the flight, with one last missions conference in Texas lined out for last week. We were going to be quite busy preparing to leave. And then we heard that Pensacola Christian College was possibly closing. Then it did close and our boys were coming home early. Then flights started re-routing. Then Uganda closed its borders. And here we are.

We are in America for the foreseeable future. I do not know how long. It will probably be June. Africa got to the party late, so their peak is going to hit late, and they are ill-prepared to deal with it. I hope it doesn’t get bad, but it might. And when it does, it is going to extend the shutdown for perhaps months. We are monitoring the situation, but as you well know, things change from day to day, sometimes hour to hour.

We are in fine shape. We are weathering this temporary setback like millions of other Americans. We are attending pajama church on Sundays like all of you. We are trying to stay busy. We are enjoying the break, and spring time in Missouri. We are enjoying more time with our sons before we go back.

Pray for our churches in Uganda. The Ugandan government has put their whole country on lockdown. Travel is severely restricted. Flights in and out are grounded. They aren’t allowed to have church. Our people have enough problems without the threat of the Wuhan Flu on top of it. I can’t send them money to help with problems, because even if I did they would not be permitted to go anywhere to buy anything. It’s a tricky situation. The saving grace in all this for Africa is that this Made in China Plague is vulnerable to heat and sunshine, of which Africa has plenty. And it is killed by malaria meds, which most Africans are already taking. Pray it does not spike.

Pray for our missionary friends who are trapped in Uganda and can’t get out. Pray for the health of the nation. Pray the crisis passes and that deaths will be minimal. Pray for America.

God bless you. Stay safe. Stay healthy.