You might think it’s easy to be generous in a country that your considered rich in, but it’s actually quite difficult, for reasons I have discussed in previous posts. But I’ve adapted what Mark and Liz suggested in a recent comment, and that’s to bargain people down to a reasonable price, and then pay them…… Continue reading Walking in Generosity
Category: Mission
Jesus Is Love
During my time here I’m reading Banning Liebscher’s Journey of a World Changer. It covers 40 days of reflections and I wanted to share this passage from First Corinthians 13, with Jesus in the place of love. Part of today’s activation was to write a love letter to God, which I’ve included in another post…… Continue reading Jesus Is Love
Dear Jesus
Dear Jesus, The fact that someone so big, Someone so important, Someone so knowledgeable, Someone so perfect. The fact that someone so loving, Someone so right, Someone so just, Someone so free. The fact that someone so warm and fuzzy inside, Someone who laughs and plays with a child, Someone who smiles and brings light…… Continue reading Dear Jesus
TRANSFORMED: Youth Conference
During the week most of the ‘youth’ from church were attending the youth conference organised by the Baptist Union, in partnership with SOS (Sanctity of Scriptures) ministries. There were over a thousand young people in attendance some of which had travelled all day from the various regions of Uganda to be part of it. Many…… Continue reading TRANSFORMED: Youth Conference
English Politeness
Being British, we feels it’s perfectly alright to lie, as long as we think it will make the person feel better (an exaggeration maybe, but something that’s part of our culture). “How do I look?”, “You’ve never looked better!” [Really?] We have a terrible habit of avoiding anything that might offend people, because we have…… Continue reading English Politeness
Walking in big shoes
Today was more emotional than I expected. Although well aware of some of what the day would entail, its amazing how unpredictable we can be. Today I met some very important people for the first time. I was meeting Chris Dobson, and family friend, who grew up in Uganda with my father, at the clergy…… Continue reading Walking in big shoes
Child Sponsorship
Many of your who read this blog, like me, will be supporting children all over the world by providing education, food and clothes through child sponsorship. I myself have a wonderful little boy in Ethiopia, called Gemtu, who I sponsor through Compassion (compassion.org). Soapbox (the organisation who organised my trip) has a similar project here,…… Continue reading Child Sponsorship
Profile: Soapbox – Shaun and Kathy Murphy
I first met Shaun at our annual Gateway Conference (gatewayconference.org.uk), held in Portsmouth. My Pastor, Dan Harman (City Life Church), had been on a Soapbox mission trip to Nepal, in his younger days, so met Shaun and become good friends during that time. When I had my start date confirmed for my new job, I…… Continue reading Profile: Soapbox – Shaun and Kathy Murphy
The Million Dollar Video
This week I’ve been doing some work with Arthur, at the Pastors Discipleship Network (PDN). Arthur does a lot of the video, photography and graphics hear at PDN, and this week I’m sitting in the directors chair to help put together a video for the their latest project, “The Daraja Project”. PDN has a video…… Continue reading The Million Dollar Video
Profile: Pastors Discipleship Network (PDN)
The Pastors Discipleship Network (PDN) is based about midway between Seta (where I live), and New Life Baptist Church (in Kireka). They have about seven members of staff who work here running the network, organising the conferences, putting together the training, and many other things. Patrick looks after the place, and lives next door (he’s…… Continue reading Profile: Pastors Discipleship Network (PDN)