A few days ago our team finished Mending the Soul's By His Wounds Workbook Facilitator Training in Goma, DR Congo. We couldn’t have asked for much more (well, hot water would have been nice, but it definitely was a want and not a need). The reports we heard the last...
Celestia and I have had the opportunity to visit some twenty countries. We’ve lived overseas. We’ve been exposed to numerous cultures. But nothing compares to the Congo. The needs are impossible to quantify. Every single person we interact with has bone chilling...
The Rwamwanja Refugee camp is located in a forested region of Uganda called Kyenjojo. It is “home” to over 85,000 refugees from Rwanda, Congo, and Burundi—many of them children—Rwamwanja is just one of four camps. Sixty lead pastors were carefully chosen to attend...
After a very early flight and a roller coaster van ride through the mountains our team arrived in Congo yesterday. We were greeted at the border by a beaming team of Congolese partners. It was so good to see our dear friends and hear how God has been sustaining and...
Life is change. Constantly challenging our ability to stay safe and secure, tucked away in our cocoon of what we know and can rely on. I’m not good with change. I feel scared when I’m faced with it. My first reaction is to grip tighter to what I know. The thing that...
By His Wounds Intensive Healing Conference, 2019 Fort Portal, Uganda—at the base of the “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori Mountains My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Hate is the most self-righteous of all emotions. We feel deliciously...
By His Wounds Intensive Healing Conference, 2019 Fort Portal, Uganda—at the base of the “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori Mountains Day 4—The Power of the Cross The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of...
By His Wounds Intensive Healing Conference, 2019 Fort Portal, Uganda—at the base of the “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori Mountains Day Three—Touching the Tears of God I’ve lost my home, it was burned. My children were killed in front of me. I was raped as a...
By His Wounds Intensive Healing Conference, 2019 Fort Portal, Uganda—at the base of the “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori Mountains Day Two—Wounds the Eye Cannot See No one can snatch me from my...