Update from Uganda

Ki Kati, Oli Otya (Hi, How are you?)

Just wanted to give you, as my prayer supporters, an update of what has been going on in my life over the past 4 months. In case you haven’t heard I have been commissioned to serve in Uganda, Africa for 6 months by the ministry, Potter’s Field Ministries, I’m interning at for a year.

The first 3 months of my internship, January-March, I was at Potter’s Field Ranch in North-western Montana taking part of their ministry training school. Wow, it was such an amazing experience and God definitely met each one of the 12 interns at the school. We went through a number of studies including the book of Acts, apologetics, book studies by authors such as Roy Hession and Warren Wiersbe, and cultural and language classes for the respective countries we have been assigned to. It was during this time that I was assigned to Uganda along with another guy intern and two girl interns (picture below). After our 3 months of study we were privileged to go back home for a week before departing to Uganda and we arrived here a little less than 2 weeks ago.

We have been here for a few weeks but have already fell in love with the people, the ministry here that we are going to be a part of, and the culture. The first few days after arriving were spent becoming familiar around town, getting settled in, and getting to meet others in the ministry of Potter’s Field Kids which is based in Calvary Chapel Entebbe. We started serving alongside the church after settling in and it has been such a blessing to be working with these people.

Some of the ministries we are going to be involved with are:

·         Teaching kids Bible stories and doing various activities during Saturday Kids Clubs and Sunday School on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings

·         Medical outreaches to the islands on Lake Victoria once a week giving immunizations and checkups to the impoverished communities on the islands. We also run a kids program on these islands while the medical procedures are taking place.

·         Working with the kids academy at the church which a couple hundred kids from the community come to receive schooling.

·         The church is going under some building expansions right now and there is quite a bit of construction work to do that we will be a part of.

So yeah, it has been a blessing to be here and I so appreciate and covet your prayers. Thank you so much for supporting me and my team in this way. A couple ways you can pray specifically:

·         Pray that we continue to adjust to the culture and continue to learn the native language, Luganda. Most of the natives know English but there are those who don’t so we are trying to pick up as much of that as we can so that we can be ‘all things to all men’ (1 Cor 9:22).

·         Pray for health. We have been so thankful for good health so far but it is very easily for a foreigner to acquire diseases that we haven’t been exposed to in the States.

Thank you so much!

Siiba balungi (have a good day)

Grant