Our Call Missions

Our Call Missions Visit to the Village Learning Center         September 2017 Although the drive to the Village of Latordore is long, (3 hours from Gulu), it is always an uplifting experience to visit the Village Learning Centers. After reaching the town of Kitgum, we turn onto a dirt road for the next hour. As we pass through each trading center along the way, memories return of the time when there were IDP camps during the LRA war. We thank God for the development and that lives seem more normal now.   I use the word ‘seem’ because daily movements and activities do not depict what is going on in the hearts and minds of people. Over 20 years of living through that horrible war where children were abducted and murder and rape were common, leaves deep worldview shifts and scars. Thus our mission in teaching children the truth of God’s word and introducing them to Jesus through their daily school curriculum, thereby helping to shape a Biblical worldview in them. We turn

“This is the last time we are moving in this country, ever!!” This declaration came from both Keith and I as we loaded up our cars, locked our sweet rental house in Jinja and prepared to drive back to Gulu. After 15 years of living here, several families that worked with us for a time and then left, we have accumulated a lot of stuff!! “Why do we need all this stuff?” Those were declared in times of fatigue, and exhaustion, but bottom line is we praise God for His provisions of the resources we use and share here in Uganda. We are now residing at the Educator Development Institute. When we renovated it several years ago, we made one office room and a closet into a bedroom and bathroom so that we could stay there when we were teaching late into the evening. Now we have claimed one more office room and closed in a foyer to make a living room and kitchen. A small apartment inside the EDI.  Closet into a bathroom