Tag - Lira

Update from Lira

Recently we received an update from GO Africa’s Executive Director Alison Barfoot:

There are 68 children at the Father’s House in Lira. Recently, two new children have joined the Lira family; they were brought to the right place to help […]

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Update from Lira, Uganda

Update by Betty Awori, Coordinator at The Father’s House, Lira
We have managed to add 80 more bananas and 300 pineapples this month, and I believe it will do well since the rain is in plenty. In one year’s time, […]

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Planting in the garden, Lira, Uganda

“(God) took the man (woman) and put him (them) in the garden to work it and take care of it.”
God provided a beautiful place for his children to work in cultivating and harvesting. God walked with them in the […]

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Life in the garden, Lira, Uganda

Life began in the garden. “In the beginning,” you know the story.
“The Lord God planted a garden… “
God, Creator of the universe, bending down and scooping the soil in his hands. King of Kings, digging in the dirt and […]

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O, Ye, of Little faith!

The GO Project Vision Team that visited Uganda in July wanted to do a community art project when they visited the Lira Father’s House. But, what should they paint?
They sat with the Mamas and listened as they talked about […]

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Mangos and Mentors

by Mike Mitchell, currently in Uganda
Visiting the Father’s House in Lira, Uganda this week we discover that there are now some young men in our midst. Tall fellows that look you eye-to-eye as they offer their customary warm and […]

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Prayers for care givers and children in Northern Uganda

Marsha Campbell is in Africa leading a team of counseling faculty and graduate students from Mid-America Nazarene University. They are hosting two, multi-day conferences equipping, training, and investing in care givers and orphan ministry leaders at the Father’s Houses […]

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Happy Mother's Day

Several years ago, GO Project’s Marsha Campbell met a very special mother, teacher and friend in Lira, Uganda. As the Community Management Chairperson at The Father’s House there, she found great happiness in helping rescue the homeless and fatherless […]

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Come and go with me to my Father’s house

From Marsha Campbell
Audio Adrenaline’s popular song, “Big House,” celebrates a vision of a big ole house where all are lovingly welcomed into a joyful extended family.
It’s a house with room for everyone– where we can play and run…I don’t […]

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So many blessings

From Stephanie Brown (Vision Trip Leader)
Well our team has now been home from Uganda for 4 days now, and we are slowly crawling back into the land of the living after recovering from the jet lag. This time has […]

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