Greetings! I think 2020 is going to go down as one of the most bizarro years in recent memory. Not much has changed since the last update. Uganda is still on lockdown. We are still in America, waiting for the government there to open their borders again. We have heard conflicting news from President Museveni. Either they are opening the border to some foreign travel on June 26, or the border remains closed until there’s a vaccine for the fake pandemic. It is currently unclear. In any case, KLM is not flying to Uganda at all right now, and there is no indicator when they plan to resume flights. So here we are.

In more local news, our sons have finished their first year of college, and are home working hard earning money for next semester. We are enjoying this unexpected extension of our time in America to be with our children. We were fully expecting to have to leave them back on April 1, but those plans were changed, obviously.

In Uganda, our people have been enduring Uganda’s strict stay-at-home orders. Churches were cancelled until this past weekend. Schools are still closed. I have sent relief to them to purchase food and medicine. The cost of medicine has increased due to scarcity. Ditto for food. Pray for our churches and for the country of Uganda.

I succeeded in raising money for several projects, but we didn’t reach all of our goals. If you were still wanting to help with that, we could very much use it. The moment I get back I want to start rebuilding our church buildings and constructing the new library building. I still need about $20,000 in order to do all the projects that were outstanding when we left last June.

Since we have been unavoidably detained for the foreseeable future, and now that the Wuhan Flu hysteria is starting to subside, if you would like a visit from me in the next month or two, let me know and I will see what I can do. Or, Zoom, since the China virus taught us that Zoom is also a viable option. I can still be reached at 314-915-8164.

Thanks for praying for us. I am praying for all of you as your various municipalities begin to allow the 1st amendment to function again, and, possibly you may be facing some civil unrest too. I expect locusts, volcanic eruptions and meteors will strike at any moment. 🙂

God bless you!

Greetings. A few days after beginning our Westward trek, I got the news, very early in the morning (afternoon in Uganda), that my good friend and fellow laborer, Theogene, had died.

Theogene was one of the earliest believers to join the church at Ngarama, and one of the most faithful. He had long been the functional Pastor of the Independent Baptist Church of Ngarama. I was planning to begin the process of ordaining him on our return. Before leaving on furlough, he had become paralyzed from the chest down. The doctors who saw him could not discover why. We thought it might be old injuries he had received in Congo (he had been beaten by police), or maybe even a mental breakdown. Nothing we tried helped. After we left, the truth finally came out – he and two other men had been poisoned in revenge over a land dispute. One other man, another of our church members, died. The other is paralyzed in his arm.

Theogene gradually developed bed sores. When they wouldn’t heal, we arranged to get him to the hospital for treatment. It went septic, and they could not save him. He is survived by his wife and 10 children. I will miss my friend. Pray for laborers. This kind of thing happens frequently. And good men, faithful men, are hard to find.

Our trip out West went well. We got to see all our churches in Arizona and California, and picked up some new churches as well. We took the kids to Muir Woods, and the Golden Gate bridge – so beautiful. Then we had to come back. Drove from California to Florida in 4 days (I do not recommend this). Stopped in to visit Carlsbad Caverns on the way – breathtaking.

We have finished our meetings in Florida and are now in Texas. After this furlough, I will finally be caught up on visiting my churches. We have visited several new churches also. I have been pushing hard so next furlough we won’t need to travel as much. We still need support. Pray that the support we need will come in. Pray we will raise the money needed for building projects. I have a little better than half of the $50,000 we need. The next election in Uganda is in 2021. I am very concerned there could be a coup, and then a civil war. It is imperative I get our churches on a solid footing in case things go badly. Hope for the best – prepare for the worst.

We fly home on April 1 (no fooling). Pray that the trip will go well, and that we will have everything we need in order to successfully transition back to the field. Pray for James, John, and Ethan, who will remain in America to finish school at Pensacola Christian College.

God bless you!