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Megan's Birthday

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Our little girl is 7 years old today! Where does the time go!

Got Out!

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Well, I finally did it. After some time (I won't mention how many months), our whole family got out of Karamoja! This past Monday we left Nakaale and made the adventurous trip down to Mbale. We were on our own, as Bob Wright was too sick to caravan with us if we needed any help. So we, Heather Foss, and our visitor Monica who was flying home embarked. We only got stuck twice! Below is the spot where we wished we had a shovel to work away at the mud we were stuck in so we could rock ourselves out. We finally did that, but only after Monica, David and a Karimojong friend John Moru did some digging with mostly their hands! But then we had a very nice time playing with friends, brought there by some nicely paved roads... No pictures of the ride back home, but let's just say it had its own 'adventures', but we didn't get stuck!

Christ's Mercy In Times of Need

“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16) This past week, a friend and member of our church came to me, a man who has been among our most faithful brothers. I was deeply saddened to hear him confess that he had sinned by taking another wife. His first marriage has been troubled for a long time. The struggles have become increasingly difficult. My own feeble efforts to intervene have not proven very helpful. So, even though he knew it was wrong, he followed the counsel of the community elders rather than the commands of Christ. In Karimojong culture, the way to deal with a troublesome wife is to take another one. So they pressured him. So he did. And he did so without mentioning a thing to me. Events developed quickly while I was away on a trip down country. I was happy that at least he came and confessed this rather than trying to keep it a secret. What was disturbing wa