MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 09-29-2008

Greetings! Our time at home was very restful. We finally got over the jet lag from our trip to Hawaii, although neither of us slept much for a few days. Our church, Grace Baptist Church in St. Louis (Pastor Ken Spilger) had its annual missions conference, and we were participants. Dr. Ron Bragg was our conference speaker, and did a great job preaching. God blessed in the meeting, and we exceeded our giving goal again! The economy is down, and gas is expensive, but God's people are still giving to missions.

Today, we're in North Platte, NE on our way up north to Anchorage, AK. That's right, Alaska. We're driving up for a series of 11 meetings all over Alaska for the next two months. We won't be back until the day before Thanksgiving, which is cutting it very fine, I know, but, barring sudden new developments in teleportation technology, it was the quickest I could get us home. Pray for us. After remembering everything we needed to take, I realized about 30 minutes from our hotel that we forgot to bring the single most important thing for our trip: our passports. They're at home. In our fireproof box. Our LOCKED fireproof box. I have the only key. So, this morning, my Pastor will be engaging in some breaking and entering to get them out so they can be overnighted to the hotel we'll staying at on Wednesday in Seattle, WA. Pray that all goes well, and we get our travel documents. Otherwise, we'll be stuck at the Canadian border, which cannot happen because of the tight schedule we're on for this trip. And we wanted adventure. Pray for our many travels this fall as we seek to raise the support we need to go Uganda, Africa.