Teaching Marketable Skills In Uganda

Village women gathered for a sewing workshop led by Shirley Moran and myself. Starting with fewer than 25 participants, each woman...

Do you remember the Raincross Quilt Guild meeting back in 2019 when so many members presented donations to begin sewing classes in...

There are so many people in Uganda who touch our hearts. One is Sandra, a young woman hard at work in the hot sun, mixing mortar, loading...

Exactly one month after we landed in Uganda, President Museveni announced the second nationwide COVID Lockdown. Why? COVID cases have...

!!! Reader Beware: Photos in this post include those of goats being prepared for cooking. Please do not read if these might be offensive...

While we were in Adjumani a few days ago, the ladies honored me with the gift of the largest YAM I have ever seen. Always doing things in...

Meet Joyce.and her sweet baby Wilma. They are the stars of the show. I almost stepped on a humble baby. It was a very close call! Helping...

Take one small 7 year old girl from a village in Northern Uganda  who has never walked  (Apiyo), Add 2 compassionate...

Do you know when and how and why Jeff and I fell in love with Uganda? Funny thing, we know that many of our friends don't know what...

Greetings from Riverside! Yes, in case you missed the news, we returned to Riverside July 9. Uganda is on a full lockdown due to a marked...

This is James, our local milkman. He doesn’t come to our porch and trade full bottles of milk for empties like the old days at home....

Thank You! Generous friends, family members, strangers, and 2 organizations (Power Ministries and The Kiwanis CLub of Riverside) donated...

A surprise of mammoth proportions! and I went to Adjumani yesterday with Okello Charles Odoch, Dominic Toonekalit and his wife Nancy,...

Nancy and Dominic are a young married couple with three small children living in Gulu, Uganda. When we arrived to begin our ministry,...

Some Observations and Random Thoughts There are many things that I could have included in this update but haven’t because it would have...

I have a love-hate relationship with technology. This evening I’m deep into the hate side of the equation. I guess that wonderfully...

Jeff and I left for Uganda on August 15, 2019, one year ago. We thought back on the things that happened during our time there. There...

This morning I awoke to an email with a food distribution report from Pastor Simon Oloyojok. When we receive donations for food, we wire...

Just 7 weeks until we take off on August 14th for a year (or more) of volunteer service in Uganda!    This year, I plan to teach 300...