MISSION: Uganda Blog Post 06-10-2026

Greetings everyone!

We reached America and hit the ground running.

After struggling to get out of Uganda due to the war with Iran, we got to America later than anticipated and had to pretty much get to our house, drop our stuff off, repack, and then head off to our first missions conference. After that, it was steady conferences and meetings for six weeks. It was a great blessing to see our friends and churches again, but it was rather busy.

Then we had a graduation to get to. It is tremendous after all these years to have all our children (for the moment) finished with college. Elizabeth survived the arduous process to graduate from PCC’s nursing program, and has since become a registered nurse in the state of Florida. Gaelin completed the Pastoral program, and has been accepted into PCC’s graduate program to pursue his Master of Divinity. He intends to become a military chaplain. We are very proud of them for achieving such a notable milestone in their lives.

We also had a wedding to plan. Anna and Elizabeth and our daughter-in-law Jules had been working on this since last November, but as all of you know who have had children marry, getting a wedding pulled together is still work and requires a lot of logistics to achieve successfully. Everybody pulled together and we got it done. It was a beautiful ceremony. The weather in Florida was gorgeous. I have gained a son-in-law. Joseph Rosnik is a fine young man. It was my great honor to marry Elizabeth and Joe.

You have no doubt heard of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Ebola is endemic in Africa. That means, no matter what they do, it crops up from time to time. Due to the highly lethal nature of the disease, it tends to burn itself out very quickly, but not spread very far. Uganda has handled the crisis well. They have so far controlled their border and prevented an outbreak within their borders. Pray for Congo. Pray for the aid workers and healthcare professionals who have to deal with the sick at great personal risk. Pray it will resolve itself soon.

Pray that the war in Iran will soon reach its conclusion. The spike in oil prices has catastrophic consequences for the third world, where they tend not to have any cushion to ride out fluctuations in fuel prices. I am hearing that they have been suffering from fuel shortages like they have not seen since the 90s.

Pray for our churches. Our deacons are managing well in our absence, but it is always a challenge when the Pastor is away. The construction on our Sangano church facilities is completed. It looks great. I am looking forward to our return so I can do a proper building dedication and invite the community in to hear the gospel.

We have a lot of traveling coming up in the Fall. Pray for our health, that our car will continue to function well, and that I will succeed in raising more support. We are very close to where I need us to be. If I can get about 4 more supporting churches, we will finally be back to where we were in 2014 before we lost 40% of our support. It was a hard time there for awhile, but we persevered and God has blessed the ministry greatly. We are very grateful.

God bless and keep you!