Global Outreach
An Update from our GO Partner in Ukraine
Dear friends, You expressed your love and support to us in numerous messages, calls, and prayers today. It has been overwhelming. Thank you and praise the Lord! I am in Kyiv and it looks like I arrived yesterday night with one of the very last flights before the airport Boryspil has been bombed by Russians. Thankfully, Irina is staying in Wroclaw and all our children are busy with their studies or working somewhere abroad. Praise the Lord! I…
Tuesday and Wednesday
The team has been busy! Tuesday morning we planted 500 saplings at Hope Alive Property. This is a forestation project where the future lumber will be sold to assist the ministry. In the afternoon we were able to visit families who had children enrolled in Hope Alive USA sponsorship program. One group headed to a family that lived in a group of 6 huts. One hut was the kitchen, one was for the girls room, one for the grandmother, two…
Sunday and Monday Update
Our internet access so far has been very unreliable and very slow. We will update the blog as often as we can. We had a wonderful Sunday. We started out with church services at a local church plant next to Gulu University. They were very welcoming of us even as it was raining and very few people attended. After that we had a wonderful time heading back to Catharines to prepare for Monday teaching time. We are now back at…
Arrived in Gulu, Getting organized for our first Saturday Club
We arrived in Gulu about 4 hours behind schedule, but we we able to unpack and get things in order for the first Saturday Club for the next morning. We’re staying at the Dove’s Nest Hotel. Please pray for our time here that we will prepared and effective with all the people we will meet!
Arrived in Entebbe/Kampala!
Morning all! Thank you for praying and supporting our Uganda 2019 GO trip. Our trip so far has been very smooth. Our Visa applications were all in the computer system when we went through Immigration, and we did not have to pay the $50 fee again, so that was wonderful. We’re currently having breakfast at Humura Hotel in Kampala, getting ready for the day drive north to Gulu.
Uganda Team 2019
Our team departs Wednesday morning, July 17! Please continue to pray as they work alongside Catharine Coon and her team at Hope Alive! Kampala, Uganda. Hope Alive! is a relief and development project focused on orphans and fragile families in Uganda. Its vision is to impact deeply the lives of the children – spiritually, physically, emotionally, educationally, and socially – in order to see them transformed by the healing hope of Jesus Christ. Hope Alive! works closely with local churches to share…