A few years ago my best friend, Rachel Miller, and a friend of hers named Laura came to visit us here in Uganda. They got to see where we live and our churches. We loved having them here! The Sunday they attended services with us, I wanted to introduce them to our church people. I […]
Let me begin by saying that I’m good at many things. Cake decorating is not one of them. I grew up in a family full of women (and maybe some men!) proficient at cake decorating. My sister decorates beautiful wedding cakes and gets paid to do it. Whenever cake decorating needed to be done around […]
A few weeks ago, someone on Facebook asked me about the animals we have here in Uganda. I thought I’d begin answering that question by sharing about the animals we have here in town. Mbarara recently gained city status in the country of Uganda. There are only a couple other cities that have this status […]
A few days ago, I posted about God loving to do the Impossible. But what about times when it seems like He doesn’t? We’ve all had times when we asked God for something and, for whatever reason, got no answer. Even worse, sometimes He gave us exactly the opposite of what we asked for. How […]
Most Sundays are pretty normal. We go to church. James preaches. I teach Sunday School. We talk to people. We come home. Nothing out of the ordinary. This week was much the same, except many of our church folks are attending a Bible Institute class here in town this week. A group from Kabazana and […]
A couple weeks ago, I shared my impressions about the book The Insanity of God. The book spoke to me, encouraged me, in ways I did not expect when I started reading it. Not long after finishing the book, I began reading through the book of Jeremiah in my personal devotions. I did not anticipate how […]
This week has not gone as originally planned. That is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s been a good week. I just didn’t get a few things done that I had planned — like writing blog posts. I’ll get back to it in the next few days, but I decided to use this short […]
I first heard about The Insanity of God a year ago. After the third person asked me if I’d read it, I decided I needed to check it out. It was not what I was expecting at all but not in a bad way. I’d expected a devotional type book. What I read was one […]
Uganda is called “The Pearl of Africa.” It’s always been lush, green, productive, vital. The people of our region of Uganda don’t face issues like drought and famine. Until recently, that is. Due to a strong El Nino in the Indian Ocean, the last several rainy seasons have been short or non-existent. We were amazed […]
A few years ago, my dear friend, Rachel, came to visit us here in Uganda. She spent a few weeks in Kenya first. The people she was with in Kenya warned her, “Uganda is banana country. You’ll eat so many bananas while you’re there!” I’m not sure we fed her any bananas at all while […]