Tag - Africa

Torit, Sudan

Joe Knittig in Torit, Sudan
Memo to file: civilians shouldn’t make the drive from Juba up country in the night.
We’re about 4 1/2 hours into our drive to our potential pilot site in Torit. It’s a dusty, bumpy […]

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Sharon Wins the Day

It’s a little past midnight here and we’ve wrapped up our day. There’s much we could discuss. But sometimes a single story so transcends the bounds of ordinary events, that one can think of little else. […]

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The Birth of a Village: The Need and The Partner

Dear Trace, Adrien, and Joe,
As you know, I’m in Kabale at the moment. Today we visited the proposed site for the expansion of the Kabale ministry…The Bishop met with Obed and several others and they discussed many options and […]

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An abandoned woman, an orphan and a simple decision to say YES

Marsha Campbell, Uganda
Jane, from Nebbi-Town, Uganda, like thousands of women in Africa, found herself abandoned and struggling to support herself and orphaned three year old Dennis. Committed to addressing the plight of abandoned women and orphaned children in Africa, […]

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Women on a Mission

Today, Kansas City women are on a mission of a lifetime. A journey that has been a year in the making for 12 committed women and close to 100 others who recently supported them in the 100 […]

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Hope for "Dependents"

The life of a pastor in Uganda is an eye opener. We’ve been in Lira, northern Uganda.
We arrived to find the pastor hosting us in mourning. He just learned his 6 year old “daughter” died. She […]

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Hello from Uganda.

Hello from Uganda.
What a great day yesterday. We started our day in Masaka with the first 30 children we brought into care in Uganda 2 years ago. It was the end of their school term. At the […]

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Kyotera kids

Here’s one more quick pic… Diton clowning with a bunch of the Kyotera kids. Thumbs up.

Kyotera Kids with Pastor Diton
Tomorrow, we head to a new village to be in Mbira, and then on to Kabale in SW Uganda […]

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Christ's transformational love

Pastor Diton said that God’s using the church to demonstrate Christ’s transformational love. To explain, he introduces me to Stephen. Here’s a pic of Diton with Stephen.
Steven and Pastor Diton
Stephen lost both parents to AIDS. He […]

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