MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 12-10-2012

Greetings! The year is nearly finished. I hope in this last few weeks before the End that God blesses you and you find joy with your family and friends while you still can. 😀 You know, if the world ends, it won’t be due to the failure of the Mayans’ to buy more inserts for their Day Planners. It will be due to the great wickedness of man and the eternal plan of Almighty God. As for me and mine, we have work to do while it is yet day. However bad things may get in the short term due to stupid Electorates and even more stupid opposition Parties, our mission is unchanged – preach the Gospel to every creature. And that we shall.

I have been riding with Jeff Bassett and crew out to the refugee camp every week and leaving the family home (we are legion, and there aren’t enough seats). Djuna gives me a lift to my two preaching points on his motorbike, then out to Sangano for Jeff’s service, and I ride back with him. The car is still parked, following the Road’s successful assassination attempt. Some money has come in for the repair (Thank you, and praise the LORD!!), but not enough to do the whole repair. Please keep praying. As it currently stands, there will be no Christmas party for the children, nor for the churches like we usually do around Christmas – we lack the transport to get everything out there. If this transport drought continues, there won’t be a VBS in January either, which is when the children are off school. Our ministry is extremely handicapped right now.

Pray for our impending furlough. Our plane tickets are bought, which makes it real. I have sent many emails to churches, requesting meetings. Many have responded, many have not. Pray Pastors will find time to respond so I can finalize our furlough schedule for next year. Pray that new churches will be willing and able to grant us meetings so we can raise new support, which we need very much. Pray for all the traveling that is coming. Pray for our works, for our fellow laborers, for our employees, for our dogs, for our property, and for our fellow missionaries, who all have to get by in our absence. Pray there will be no excitement here while we are on loan from the Field visiting you.

We are looking forward greatly to seeing you all again, and to all the mighty things God has planned for the months ahead!