The joy and excitement of being home with family and friends was all too quickly replaced with loneliness and exhaustion as I stepped off the third plane in 24 hours and finally set foot back in Uganda. I was thankful to have had the time at home with family and dear friends, and especially to have had time with my father during his recovery from surgery. Even though I was home for over a month, it went VERY FAST. Thank you to everyone who made my trip home such a blessing! The trip back to Uganda was relatively uneventful. However, the [View Full Entry]

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WE’RE COMING HOME!!! Hello dear friends and thank you for your patience with our updates. As mentioned, we are excited to report that we will be coming home for a visit soon, and are looking so forward to seeing many of you again. Although we do not yet have our plane tickets, our plan is to be back by mid-September. Our Board of Directors for Tutapona, has been busy planning our calendar. We know this will be a busy time for us, but we will attempt to see as many of you as we can. God continues to amaze us with [View Full Entry]

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"The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His unfailing love!" (Ps. 33:5) Well, it has been several months since I have updated our blog, so I thought you might like to hear about life in Uganda from another perspective. I cannot get too far, without giving praise and honor to our Faithful God, Who continues to amaze and bless me every single day! I have a new realization, far more than when we were in the States, that He truly is all that I need. I have missed Carl terribly when he is so frequently away from [View Full Entry]

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Dear Friends and Family! This is the 3rd entry in a row where we start with the blessing of visitors. We had our 3rd and final set of visitors from March 29th to April 14th. Julie’s sister Marrie came with her son Taylor and daughter Hannah. I was amazed at how much Taylor and Hannah have changed. Taylor is definitely not a boy any more; he has grown into a young man. Hannah displayed a lot more maturity and a lot of growth as well. It was so fun seeing them all again. Taylor & I started their trip with a [View Full Entry]

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“And Lo, I am with you always, even to the ends of the earth.” Praise God for His Mighty, faithful hand! Once again, we find ourselves beginning a blog entry with an apology for the long delay in updating you on our lives here in Africa. So much has happened in the last month and a half since our last correspondence, we will try our best to update you on all that has happened. Our last blog mentioned we had just settled into our home in Gulu. Well, we have moved again! As much as we were convinced God called us [View Full Entry]

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Hello Dear Friends and Family! We apologize for the long delay in updating our blog. Life has been very busy, with lots of wonderful and challenging experiences. We want to begin our update with a huge “Praise God“ and declaration of thanksgiving… We are now in a house! Thanks so much for those of you who have been praying us through our many transitions and into a wonderful house, which is more than we could have ever asked for or imagined. We have a large yard with a walled fence and beautiful flowers and we have 4 bedrooms, a kitchen, a [View Full Entry]

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“Praise the name of the LORD for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens!” (Ps. 148:13) Dear Family and Friends, We pray this Christmas letter finds each of you at peace. We miss you all so very much and yet are thankful to the One we are celebrating, that He is all we need! He most certainly has been faithful to us in our journey and life across the world from you. And we know that the blessings that have been released to us are a result of your faithful prayers. Thank you so [View Full Entry]

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Even though we have so much to be thankful for, it just does not feel like Thanksgiving this year. For one thing, since it is a US holiday, as opposed to an international holiday, Ugandans don’t celebrate it. Second, we feel much more alone than during any other Thanksgiving I can remember. For us, Thanksgiving was always a time to gorge ourselves multiple times during the day as we had the opportunity to laugh, love and share with the people we love the most, our families. This year certainly feels different. Even though we will not stuff ourselves to complete discomfort, [View Full Entry]

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“All things work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His good purpose.” (Romans 8:28) ALL THINGS! Even the things that seem a bit hard for us to understand. I am taking great comfort in this verse as we head to Gulu, unsure where we will be sleeping tonight (I am writing this as Carl dodges chickens, bicycles, cows, motorcycles with large loads of wood or coal or metal, etc., pedestrians, potholes… to keep us on the road safely). Emma was just asking questions about a poster she saw this morning of Obama. “Why [View Full Entry]

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We found a great home to move into to. We visited the home a number of times and met with the landlord to discuss things that needed to be fixed. We were praying hard that God would open the door to us getting the home if it is the one He wanted us to have and that He would close the door if it was not the right one. So, just yesterday, on the last visit to the home the landlord called and reported the home was rented to someone else. This felt like another big set back. However, we are [View Full Entry]

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