Support Request

Witch doctors sacrifice children believing that they will help people get rich quickly. Children under the age of five die prematurely because of malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Adults die prematurely because of AIDS, malaria, and upper respiratory infections. As a result, the number of orphaned children is staggering. What do these tragedies have in common? They’re all happening in Uganda at this very minute and they’re just a few of the issues I’ll be helping to address alongside Mercy Uganda on June 8 – 23, 2010.

Mercy Uganda is “dedicated to working with women and children to address spiritual, physical, educational, and economic needs, thereby helping alleviate the causes of poverty and injustice, and providing hope and a future.” Our specific agenda for this trip includes meeting with the Minister of Ethics to discuss the issue of child sacrifice, working with the medical liaison as well as ministering to those in hospice care, beginning the well-digging project sponsored by a personal friend, updating sponsors about children living in orphanages, and distributing care packages to those orphans.

Will you stand with me to help the people of Uganda? "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Luke 10:2). The anticipated cost of this trip exceeds $5,000. In addition to personal trip expenses (lodging, transportation, food, immunizations, etc.) this amount includes:

• Direct financial intervention for children having specific and immediate life-threatening medical needs.
• Supplies and training for local women to learn a craft and help support their families (sewing machines, knitting tools, supplies).
• School supplies to Ugandan women pursuing a college education in the medical field. 
• Gifts for orphans (clothing, medicine, miscellaneous needs).

Pastor Bob's website says, "When someone funds their own trip and does not actively seek others to pray for them, it is so easy for the trip to become 'their trip' rather than a coordinated work of the body of Christ, and has little or no accountability or encouragement." Please consider making a generous donation before June 1, 2010 and challenge one friend or business partner to match your gift. If you cannot give, please watch the blog and take the opportunity to pray as I progress through this journey.

“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Luke 6:38).