Every day gets better.

Every Day gets better. Elishama Junior Academy in Ndejje became the first recipients of the Fountains of Hope water purification systems.  Francis Nsubuga, Owner and founder of the Christian primary school located in a heavily populated Muslim community, was overjoyed to receive the gift.  The school has about 43 children now after four years of development.  It was the pilot school for the Kampala Church of Christ to model in future locations of Church plants.  Though Muslim parents support the quality education, we learned children may be persecuted by their parents if they pray Christian prayers at home.  Please pray for the Holy Spirit to keep the children safe and warm the heart of the parents to hear the message of Jesus. After school hours, a team of about six people were trained by Bill Farrar to operate the system.  When completed, we prayed, sang songs with some of the children and blessed Francis and Judith who will become the expert users of the system for this location. It was poignant to hear the twice daily Muslim call to worship as we left.

Every Day gets better.

Sunday at the Mityana Church of Christ.

Sunday was literally heavenly. We were invited to the Mityana Church of Christ legally established in July 2014.  Michael Simbwa, with a burdened heart for his home village had been educated in the Lord's Word at the Kampala Church of Christ preparing him for this great task. He began going door to door making friends and teaching his community about Jesus. After about 12 Life Care Groups were started in homes, the people wanted to start meeting for Sunday services. The church was birthed and now meets in a school building owned by one of the members. 

Today, after Michael delivered a Bible class from Acts 2:1-4, we praised the Lord in song, I led the communion comments and Bill delivered the sermon with a very transparent testimony. During the service, Michael and Bill dedicated nine babies to the Lord with their parents. The climax was seeing Ten souls won to Christ with a public confession and baptism.  Oh how we praised the Lord for His and mercy!!! 

First weekend in Uganda news!

Saturday was a great start for our work in Uganda. Many friends greeted us at the church. Their kind words reminded me of the many reasons I love being here. Being Bill's first time here, the Ugandans have broken him in to the constant joy and laughter due to the seemingly endless challenges of the day. While Bill was shopping with the guys for tanks, I was with Rebekah teaching about the Samaritan women at the well for a Pentecostal conference near her home. It is such a blessing serving our gracious Lord! Our cups overflow! 

Made it to Uganda!

Hello everyone!!! Greetings from Uganda!! We've made it smoothly and safely. God has blessed the journey already! We flew over on British Airways using Bill's frequent flying privileges...  We are staying at a different place this time which is very nice with hot water.  Today we will meet with the leaders in the morning and get started purchasing what is needed for water purification. As an extra blessing, Bill had someone donate a second purifier for KCC. We will be honoring them with the news today and see where they would like to install it. God is good. Thank you for praying!!!

Final Days in Honduras

Our time in Honduras is coming to an end. Here's our traditional group photo, taken as we left Izopo on Wednesday — a wonderful group and a beautiful country.

The teen group went shopping in the Valley of the Angels yesterday. Along the way, they stopped at Mi Esperanza, a center of hope for Honduran women, who are learning skills to release them from poverty. Later, the group had their de-brief time and shared a final dinner, and they are flying home today.

Our small group is wrapping things up, saying farewell, and delivering final gifts. We say farewell to Honduras tomorrow. We are all happy to be headed home, but will miss our friends in Honduras.

Working Hard in Izopo

The whole North Central group worked in Izopo the last two days, and had a great time doing it!

Some worked with the Hondurans to lay adobe bricks for the walls of two houses, (they had fun working in the mud!), while others climbed up high to put on the roof.

And some painted the school houses - inside and out.

There were others pouring cement floors, delivering new stoves and helping run a one-day clinic.  And we all played with kids and visited with our friends from Izopo, two busy, productive days!

NC/LaVega Teen Day

The youth group spent the day yesterday with the teens from La Vega. Even though there was an obvious language barrier, that didn't stop us from having tons of fun, playing games, swimming, and singing the entire bus ride back to Baxter! The picture above was taken while singing on the bus.
    -   Leah and Arianna