For Your Enjoyment...

From Seed to Oak

UGANDA MISSION: DAY 04

Today we will be delivering our first batch of shoe boxes at a church in another slum. This church body meets every day at noon for an hour of prayer and worship, and is very burdened for the needs around them. Please pray for the children from the community who will be invited to this distribution, that their hearts would be open to accept the Gospel message we will share with them. Pray that the enemy would not be able to snatch away the Seed that is planted, and pray that they will be like well watered plants. Pray that...

    they will be called oaks of righteousness,
    a planting of the Lord
    that He may be glorified. 

    - Isaiah 61:3

For Your Enjoyment...

The best part is: he hasn't even opened his box yet!

Making Disciples

UGANDA MISSION: DAY 03

Today we will be on site at a Greatest Journey Discipleship class at a church in a slum community of Muslims and Catholics. After receiving a shoe box, many children have the opportunity to enroll in The Greatest Journey Discipleship course, a 12 week class that teaches the children about Christ, following Him, and sharing the Good News with others. 

This church ministers to 300 children, some of whom are boys that were rescued from the war in Sudan. Pray for the love and healing of Christ to penetrate into the hearts of these children, and that they would be emboldened to share the Gospel with their community. Pray also that God would provide resources and laborers for the ministry of this church. 

This video shares more about The Greatest Journey and the impact it is having on hundreds of thousands across the world. 

  

On a Wing and a Prayer...

UGANDA MISSION: DAY 02

 

Today we land in Entebbe, and reach our destination at midnight, Uganda time. Pray for health and safety during our time here. Our desire is to be strong, sharp, and ready to serve this week. 

All For Jesus

Hasten, hasten, Glory of Heaven, take Thy crown, 

subdue Thy kingdom, enthrall Thy creatures. 

-Jim Elliot

To the Africa Interior!

UGANDA MISSION: DAY 01

                                    

Pray for our team as we travel today. Below is our flight itinerary: you can pray for 

smooth transitions and timely flights, as well as rest on the flight across the Atlantic.

The times listed below are for the Central Standard Time Zone.  

APRIL 27 ST LOUIS MO  --> DETROIT, MI             2:10PM    3:45PM

APRIL 27 DETROIT MI   --> AMSTERDAM              6:45PM    2:40AM

APRIL 28 AMSTERDAM   --> ENTEBBE, UGANDA    4:00AM    2:15PM

Take the Sword

It cannot be stated too frequently that the life of a Christian is a warfare, an intense conflict, a lifelong contest. It is a battle, moreover, waged against invisible foes, who are ever alert, and ever seeking to entrap, deceive, and ruin the souls of men. The life to which Holy Scripture calls men is no picnic, or holiday junketing. It is no pastime, no pleasure jaunt. It entails effort, wrestling, struggling; it demands the putting forth of the full energy of the spirit in order to frustrate the foe and to come off, at the last, more than conqueror. It is no primrose path, no rose-scented dalliance. From start to finish, it is war. From the hour in which he first draws sword, to that in which he doffs his harness, the Christian warrior is compelled to “endure hardness like a good soldier.”

– EM Bounds –

Pray for our team as we leave tomorrow, heading into the heat of the battle. Pray that, despite 22 hours of flight time, we would be sharp, energetic, ready, and more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.