Yesterday we flew to Gulu, Uganda – a town in the northern Uganda. This town was in the middle of the civil war for twenty years. The LRA would abduct children – boys to be soldiers and girls to be “wives” so the children in the villages would travel to Gulu at night and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘trips’
December 10, 2007
Watoto Villages
Today we went to tour of two Watoto villages. The villages are set up with about 99 homes. A home consists of a mother and eight children. Clusters of 9 homes are scattered around the central meeting area and the schools. Within the 9 homes a senior mother helps to care and support the other [...]
December 9, 2007
KPC Ministries
Today we went to KPC Kampala for their Sunday service. It was an incredible service! Worship was awesome with a full choir behind the worship team. As expected, the songs were full of life and dance. We loved it! Then there was precious baby dedication and a special dance by some boys from the Watoto [...]
December 8, 2007
Bulrushes Home – Uganda
Greg, Sonya Yamnitz and I are in Uganda, Africa. We are here to check out a project we want to be a part of this summer with Go Global. Since this is Greg and mine first trip to Uganda, we are getting the full tour. Today we went to see the Baby Watoto, the Bulrushes. [...]
December 4, 2007
Dream Center
Greg and I just returned from a trip to California. We went for a conference – Global Summit on Aids and the Church – more about that later. But while we were there we went to L.A. and toured the Dream Center. This is an incredible place that is making a huge impact on the [...]
November 6, 2007
Live the Dream
Sonja (my sis) and I had the opportunity to accompany Leslie (our senior pastor’s wife) on a great trip to Baton Rouge to the Live the Dream women’s conference at Healing Place Church. It was an incredible time! Great speakers – Holly Wagner, Christine Caine, and Tammy Trent – made the conference full of spiritual [...]
September 19, 2007
Quick Trip to Washington DC
Greg and I had a great opportunity to go to Washington DC with our pastors, John and Leslie Siebeling. We went to check out this great coffee shop that National Community Church runs. It’s called Ebenezers, which means “Thus far the Lord has helped us.” And it’s located in a prime spot just a block [...]
September 12, 2007
Pictures from Greg’s Trip
Check out pictures from Greg’s trip to Mozambique. The children are orphans over there that they worked with. The organization they partnered with is Children’s Cup. It’s an incredible org that is doing an awesome job caring for the overwhelming number of orphans in Africa.
September 11, 2007
Luggage Has Returned!
Greg’s luggage arrived yesterday! Yahoo! Thanks to all of you guys who were praying. It’s just stuff, but some big things he reclaimed were his power cords to all his electronics (computer, camera, phone) and his journal and Bible. We are thankful! Plus some gifts he bought for me were in that suitcase too. [...]
August 30, 2007
Greg in Mozambique, Africa
Greg is loving his time in Africa right now! Here he is helping to build a playground for some kids. They are working with Children’s Cup, an organization that cares for orphans in Africa, and Healing Place Church, an awesome church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You can follow their trip at the Mozambique blog!
Mozambique is [...]