Charity walk and beyond 2009

Another Charity walk finished for the year. This was a really fun day of fellowship, exercise,good food and sharing what we do in Uganda with as many as possible. We want to thank all those involved and all those who contributed to the much needed resources for HHIM. We hope to grow this walk next year to a huge group. Every participant went home with a craft, basket

or toy from Africa as a reminder

of the work we do there and a thank

you for the work they did here.

Click on the picture to enlarge it...........

and thank again...

Charity Walk 2009

Alright time to get out your walking shoes and join us for our second annual Charity walk in Northglenn. We had so much fun last year and raised much needed funds to help our ministry in Uganda.

Just click on the picture to expand it so you can read it. If interested email me for a pledge sheet to list your sponsors.

Use this as an excuse to get out and enjoy the beautiful Colorado weather and help a great cause....see ya there...

We want to invite all to come

We will be auctioning off some fun items (hot air balloon ride, dinners and entertainment etc..)to raise some money for the resource center, English curiculum, and many other things

Finally

Finally the governments of Southern Sudan, DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and Uganda are jointly sending minitary strikes into northern DRC to take out the camps where Joseph Koney has been hiding in the Garamamba forest. They have burned to the ground the base camp of the LRA (Lords Resistance Army). Congoleese people hve been fleeing into Uganda at an alarming rate over the last few months and Ugnada hardly has the resources to aid all of these people. Pray for these people and that God will rescue them. Our February team will be visiting some of the congoleese in Uganda and take some food and blankets and the word of God to comfort them in their painful times.........

Here Kony Goes again.............pray

Once again Joseph Kony ( the leader of the LRA) is claiming he will sign a peace treaty this Saturday 11/29/2008. This is about the 4th time this year he has said he would sign and then failed to show up. It is frustrating the military and the government, but especially frustrating the people of northern Uganda, southern Sudan, and eastern Congo, who havent slept at night knowing he and his men are always out there. Please be in prayer with me that this evil man will finally do the right thing, and will be brought to justice. Pray for the people in these regions to put their hope in Christ alone...................

Charity walk and beyond

Check the pictures at the bottom................


Thanks to all the contributers and walkers we raised enough support to keep the PRC (pastors resource center) in Uganda open for six months, paid the public service for 3 months, shipped more books, we're having our sign made (for the front of the PRC), we're putting our freind and helper Pastor John Baguma through another session of English coaching, and we bought him a cow.

Pastor John won't accept any kind of salary because he knows we are struggling to just get hte ministry going right now, but we wanted to do something that would help his family long term. The milk from a cow will be used for the many kids he has and they can sell the excess daily for some extra money for the family.

The walk wasn't just successful, it was a lot of fun and an encouragement. We hope to find someone soon who has a gift for organizing these kind of fundraising campains. Kimberly and I know that we are not gifted in these area's but these things are essential for sustaining a ministry like ours and for getting the word out for excactly what God is doing in Uganda through HHIM (Helping hands International Ministries).

Next will be a Golf tournament in October. If anyone is interested in helping, golfing, or organizing in any way please contact us as we need all the help we can get.

Our next other big step as many of you know is the upcoming marriage conferences in Uganda and Kenya. God has kept Kimberly and I together and happily married for 25 years and wants to share some of that with Pastors who are struggling in tough conditions, and circumstances. We are excited about what God is going to do in these conferences and the way it is already coming together.

I hope to put out a newsletter soon to give some more specific prayer needs, opportunities and clue you in on the bigger picture oof how things are going.....

HHIM CHARITY WALK

Hey, it's time to put on your walkin shoes and join us for a fun family day in the park. We will have a hotdog roast, prizes, soda's, plenty of cold water, fellowship, freinds, and much more.


We are raising resources for our Pastors resource center. We need to fill the center with books, audio/video equipment, computers, and anything else the local pastors over there can use to continue educating themselves and reaching out to others.

The center is already being used as a prayer center, a place for the local Pastors to come and council, charge their cell phones, fellowship and get recharged. We officially opened the doors on May 1, and have shipped 30 books in addition to the dozen or so I left while there to start the ball rolling. I also left a donated laptop loaded with Bible software, word, publisher, powerpoint and video software to play videos. We are so looking forward to seeing how God uses this resource center to reach the whole area there.

We will probably be returning to uganda in October. Kimberly and I are putting together a conference for Pastors and their wives, with the theme "preparing the vessel for the Kingdom". We are so pumped about this. We know God is wanting us to prepare their marriages and homes to do the work of the Kingdom. Even the marriages of the Pastors of Uganda are hard for us to understand. The culture has placed man to be the boss and the wife to be the servant. We know that God has called these husbands and wives to be a team. We also know the cultural influences are tough to overcome.

Pray for us that God will give us that balance between culture and what God has told us to be as husband and wife. We have also learned that we need to practice what we preach and that we need to know that what we teach is truth and it works because its working in our lives.

It is amazing that we end up recieving, through the preperation to teach. God is an amzing teacher.