Trip to Northern Uganda

As many of you know I will be leaving a week from today for a "Vision Trip" sponsored by World Vision to Northern Uganda. I will be one of eight people on the trip the purpose of which is to see if we as a church can connect in a meaningful way with a newly started project in this area of the world. If we find a way of connecting, we will have the opportunity as a church to forge a three to five year relationship with the people in the project area.

Northern Uganda showed up on our radarscope as a result of our encounter with Grace Akallo last fall. Grace, a child soldier who escaped after seven months of captivity, eventually made her way to Gordon College on the north shore, married to Jonathan and recently had a baby boy. Her story (we have copies of her book, Girl Soldier, in the church office) so moved many of the church we wondered how we might become more involved in helping to heal the terrible wounds of this area of the world.

I will share information on Northern Uganda and my trip over the next week and ask that you would keep me in your prayers.