Finding our Way Home

Entrance to The Way Home Discipleship Center in Nasuti, Uganda.

Today was a homecoming of sorts.  Not in the typical fashion of returning to my boyhood home, or a place where I had spent much of my life.  This "homecoming" involved going to a place where I had never been before, the site of ECM's widow and orphan project, "The Way Home."  To be honest, I had seen and been involved with the work of the Way Home for several years, but now the project has grown and is developing its own Discipleship and Pastoral Training Center to supplement the help already being given to widows and orphans (new homes, discipleship, and Farming God's Way training and implementation).  The new center will house pastors who come for Bible and Pastoral training, a great need in a community where most pastors have little or no training.  Pastors are already lining up to receive this valuable training, which we hope to start in August.  Please pray for ECM missionaries Russ and Marcia Baugh and the entire Way Home team as they follow God's lead in this exciting venture.  Click here to learn more about The Way Home.

Missionary Russ Baugh leads a front porch
Bible study for The Way Home staff.

On an entirely different topic, I had the opportunity to catch up today with an old friend, Immanuel.  Immanuel worked for us 15 years ago when we lived in Kampala, and turned from Islam to Christ in part through our relationship with him.  During that time he had a son, whom he named Mark.  I had the opportunity to "meet" Mark for the first time since he was a toddler, at his boarding school in Kampala. It was exciting to see them again!

Left to right: Mark, Mark, and Immanuel