Had a couple great sessions with a group of refugee women living here in Kampala. The first day I asked them to share a bit of their personal stories with the group- how they ended up her in Uganda. It was very heavy. Every one of these women has experiences of death, separation, and violence. [...]
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Refugee women
Posted in Ministry Updates, Reflections on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hungry Children
Posted in Ministry Updates, Reflections on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we participated in a feeding program that Anne and friends regularly have for the children in the slum area where she lives. About 40 or so little kids showed up for a plate of rice and beans served with lots of sauce and a small piece of meat. The 8 year old girls come [...]
Uganda: It’s people who know struggle who teach us about hope.
Posted in Ministry Updates, Reflections on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well our time in Rwanda has come to an end and so its time for our team to split up. Dave and Jen Adams, Ron Johnston, and Catherine are on their way back home. Pete and I are traveling to Uganda to spend a few days at a ministry that IT Canada is partnering [...]
Training Update–Amazing People and Challenges in Need of Prayer
Posted in Ministry Updates on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest update from Alison in Rwanda
Saturday, November 1st–
Finally a chance to get on the internet. We just arrived back from the pastoral training sessions, everything there went really well. It was a very full couple of days it felt like we crammed about a weeks worth of stuff into 2 days. [...]
A Light Shining in the Darkness
Posted in Ministry Updates on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you think you have seen poverty up close enough times that it won’t affect you emotionally. Today I had the opportunity to spend some time with some people living in extreme poverty and it stirred something very deep in me. I find myself constantly holding back tears as we visit some amazingly [...]
Moureen’s Place
Posted in Ministry Updates on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today Catherine and I visited Moureen’s place. Moureen is an African woman who is trying to help women who have been involved in prostitution and their children. She does this with pretty minimal resources, they have a great piece of land that IT has helped them rent where several of the woman and dozens of [...]
Dancing with the Rwandan Church
Posted in Ministry Updates on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi there,
Getting an internet connection is a little sketchy here. It seems that every time it rains (which is every day) it goes out. Yesterday was a quiet day in the morning. They have this thing here in Rwanda that once a month on a Saturday morning everyone has to come out and [...]
Rwanda Bound
Posted in Ministry Updates on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A couple months ago I was talking to a good friend of mine about his plans to be part of the Rwanda training team. As we talked he shared that the trip would include some special training for women. My heart immediately leaped with excitement Could I be part of that, I wondered? [...]
The Wedding Planner
Posted in Ministry Updates on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God has been stirring things up at Bethany (our home church) in some very exciting ways. Starting with a newcomers Bible study we began in the fall–a growing number of Haitians are worshipping with us each Sunday. It is exciting to look out on the congregation and realize that close to 1/3 of [...]
Enriched by Refugees
Posted in Ministry Updates, Reflections on December 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What images come to mind when you hear the word “refugee”? Crowded camps full of plastic tarp huts? Long line ups for food? Heavily [...]
