Uganda: Update #1

After a long journey, a team of our brothers and sisters in Christ - men, women and children from West Texas - have arrived in the east Africa nation of Uganda for Christian mission. Midland's 2008 Uganda Mission Team is composed of 32 men, women and children, and here is their first report from Uganda.

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Greetings from Mbale!

After many miles of traveling by van the team arrived at our "home away from home" - Mt. Elgon Hotel. We met up with the team from Oklahoma (combined FPC Oklahoma City and FPC Edmond) and renewed old friendships and made new ones.

We unpacked the many suitcases we brought and had our first devotional under the open air cabana with a wonderful, refreshing rain coming down. Each day we will be doing a devotional based on the book "Humility" by Andrew Murray. After dinner everyone went to the rooms to prepare for Sunday services that eight different teams will conduct at 8 of the churches that have been planted in previous years. Each team will be responsible for the sermon, men's Sunday school, women's Sunday school and children's Sunday school lessons and present individual testimonies to the congregations.

We are very anxious to visit the churches we've planted in recent years to see how they have flourished. Please keep the team in your prayers as they step out into new adventures with Christ. Hopefully we will have pictures to send tomorrow.

The team would like to say "Thank You" to our many supporters who have allowed us the opportunity to share the Gospel. We feel both blessed and excited.

More to come . . . Webale (Good Bye)

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Please, keep them all in your hearts and on you minds, in your thoughts and in your prayers.

Want to know more about Uganda? You can visit the Uganda entry in 'The World Factbook' maintained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. You can also visit the official Uganda tourism website maintained by the Uganda Tourist Board. And Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church of Houston, Texas, has a webpage devoted to Mbale Presbyterian Church of Uganda.