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VILLAGE TRAINING
As we prepare to head back to North America next week, we’ve been wrapping up our two training courses in the villages of Cwero and Omel. Between the two locations we’ve been able to study God’s Word with 29 church leaders from 13 churches. I think the most interesting part of the training has been the questions we discuss after the lessons. They’ve covered a little bit of everything from birth-control, marriage, disciplining your children to training up young leaders. Thanks for your prayers that have helped make this training a great impact on these churches. Continue to pray for the pastors and leaders that they will put what God has taught them into practice with their congregations.
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THE RECREATION PROJECT
Yesterday, we were excited to have a little fun with the group of guys I’ve been doing training with in town for the past year. We took a field trip to The Recreation Project, a high ropes and challenge course just outside of Gulu. I’ve taken part in courses similar to this one on a number of occasions but for the rest of the group, everything was brand new. They had a lot of fun trying new challenges, scurrying up the climbing wall and flying down the zip-line. However, best of all was the team building and lessons that were learned.
During a few of the obstacles I was familiar with, I had to bite my tongue to let the team work together to find a way to succeed. It was tough, but it allowed us to grow as a group and learn how to work together as a team instead of individuals. By the end of the day, I think we had many lessons to take away from the experience and I’m looking forward to taking more pastors back in the future as a part of our discipleship program.
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"HOME" FOR THE HOLIDAYS
We are down to our last week in Gulu and life has been busy! We've been wrapping up language lessons (41 lessons have been completed), finishing up with ministry for this year and organizing the house for when we are away. It seems like time has flown by since the summer, but we look forward to spending some time with family and friends during the holiday season. Our time in North America will be spent in Butler, Pennsylvania from November 15th until our drive up to Winnipeg, Manitoba the week of Christmas for a few weeks. We hope to return to Uganda mid January and resume ministry and language lessons. We are looking forward to seeing each of you and hope you know how much we appreciate your love and support!
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PRAYER & PRAISE POINTS
- Please pray for a safe journey to North America (specifically, our extremely long 14.5-hour flight from Qatar to the United States) and quick adjustments to a new time zone.
- We've completed the 41 lessons in our language program and have recorded our language teacher reading through them. Pray for us as we make time during the holidays to study and practice with each other.
