Jinja Village Clinic

We also spent some time yesterday with the staff and patients at a clinic in the middle of a remote area outside of Jinja. A little baby named Blessing has been sick with an upper respiratory infection for a while now. His father asked if our team would pray for his son. We gathered around him and asked the Healer

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The Uganda Foster Family Network

We spent the morning with Irene who, with her husband, leads the Foster Family Network here in Jinja. The FFN is a community support network who collectivelyhave taken in 250 at risk kids into their homes and really embraced them into their families. They work together, they support each other-it’s incredible! It could very well be the best example of

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Our First Day Back in Jinja

Jinja, Uganda Peaceful, calm, serene–that’s how our first full day on the ground in Jinja began. Our first stop was to spend time with the YWAM Uganda staff and see the terrific impact they are having in lifting up the marginalized people that live around them.   They run a vocational training school, a Bible School & the most amazing

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The New Widows and Orphans Home – Adama, Ethiopia

Widows and our Team As I write this blog we have just had an official ceremony opening the new Widows and Orphans home in Adama Ethiopia. The new building is stunning!  Two of the five stories have been completed and are now occupied.  I was here in June, and the change is amazing. Widows lined the entry way and greeted

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Living Hope Home – Ethiopia

At Living Hope Home with Nigerian Bishop Okoye We headed South out of the Capitol of Addis Ababa into the Rift Valley.  Addis is in the mountains and we descended into the low lands. We traveled toward Adama, and two different homes. The first home was the Living Hope Women’s Home, a home for girls in crisis pregnancy. The girls

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The Forsaken Children of Ethiopia

He’s 5 years old and just spent 4 days in Jail He’s 5 years old and just spent 4 days in jail. His crime?  He lives on the streets of Addis Ababa. Leaders from across Africa are meeting in Ethiopia this week, and it doesn’t look good to have children living on the streets, so Nati was rounded up and

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The Boat To Lingira Island

http://www.youtube.com/get_player We boarded the long-boat in Jinja for the hour and a half boat ride to Lingira Island.  Our team was headed into the final few hours of our time in Uganda – the Pearl of Africa.  I wasn’t sure what to expect when we booked the boat ride.  It was to be either a 40 or a 15 passenger

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Celebrating Life & Shaking the Bones

The Medical Clinic Staff We arrived at the Medical clinic about an hour outside of Jinja, Uganda.  The clinic is impressive on it’s own.  It is a place for the poorest of the poor to receive excellent medical care, counseling and love.  The staff REALLY care about the patients and their medical conditions, but they care much more for them

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The Wamakale Family…19 Kids and Counting!

The Wamakale Family and their 19 Children! I first met Moses and Panena about a year ago.  We went to their house for dinner and I fell in love with this incredible family.  The parents had a few biological children and then began to adopt Ugandan Orphans.  Moses let us know that with their adopted children, they now had 16.

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