Mission Africa Update August 10, 2018

We are experiencing problems with our website hosting and the website is not viewable or editable in Uganda because of security issues; it seems the host sees it best to block access to their sites in Uganda and that this will be a permanent situation. We are safe and there is no threat towards us. For now you can see our communications online at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/. Thanks for your patience and as always we need and appreciate your prayers! Outside of Uganda see our website at: www.missionafricajk.net. 

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We will share this Update format once a month as God allows.

From a Kappy’s Corner of some years ago:

“Random Thoughts of Uganda

A small flock of goats moves as a tight unit down the sidewalk of a busy street. Wedged in the middle of the flock is one sheep.

A neatly tended rose garden grows beside a wild, brush-filled banana plantation.

The driver of a small motorcycle carries a refrigerator on the back. The driver of another carries a motorcycle on the back.

Street vendors sell anything from newspapers to on-the-spot manicures and pedicures.

Marabou Storks, four feet tall, build huge nests in short spreading trees over the main streets.

We share the newly opened modern highway with herds of cattle, just as we do any other road.

In the middle of a round-about (traffic circle) jammed with vehicles with horns blaring and diesel exhaust belching, an immense black and white cow serenely munches on a patch of green grass.

On a very hot day another black and white cow saunters into a petrol (gas) station, parks at the pump like a car and drinks from the window washing bucket. 

Red dust covers everything that stands close to the road...plants, buildings and trees.

The rains come and wash everything down. Huge green leaves wave like shining banners over red mud.

Rain pours down, vertical one moment, horizontal the next, then stops altogether like nothing happened.

Startling white cloud mountains rise into deepest blue.

Jack fruit, looking impossibly heavy, hangs from the trunk of a Jack Fruit tree. Leaves in the top of the tree lift like praying hands to Heaven.

The vivid scarlet and deep black of a Bush Shrike suddenly turn iridescent in a sunbeam.

The sun rises in a dramatic thunderstorm.

The unfinished house on the top of the hill frames sunset after sunset.

The vast silver gleam of Lake Victoria from the window of the jet is the last thing we see when we leave and the first thing we see when we return.

And last but not least...the beautiful, shining faces of our African friends, African family and our teammates, and hearing their voices.

Praise God!”

"BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ABIDES FOREVER." And this is the word which was preached to you" (1 Peter 1:25).

“All human teaching and, indeed, all human beings shall pass away as the grass of the meadow; but we are here assured that the Word of the LORD is of a very different character, for it shall endure forever. We have here a divine gospel; for what word can endure forever but that which is spoken by the eternal God? We have here an ever-living gospel, as full of vitality as when it first came from the lips of God; as strong to convince and convert, to regenerate and console, to sustain and sanctify as ever it was in its first days of wonder-working. We have an unchanging gospel which is not today green grass and tomorrow dry hay but always the abiding truth of the immutable Jehovah. Opinions alter, but truth certified by God can no more change than the God who uttered it. Here, then, we have a gospel to rejoice in, a word of the LORD upon which we may lean all our weight. "Forever" includes life, death, judgment, and eternity. Glory be to God in Christ Jesus for everlasting consolation. Feed on the word today and all the days of thy life.”

-C.H. Spurgeon  British Preacher  1834-1892