If you’ve been checking up on me lately, you’ll notice a big fat nothing by way of updates. Part of the reason is that I’ve been locked alone inside the Tricaricos’ bathroom for several weeks. Ok, not really–the door doesn’t actually lock—but we’ve been renovating
A typical day during the rainy season. Clouds start forming by 11a.m. and rain often moves in around 3p.m. This isn’t a sight we’ve been seeing much lately as our region hasn’t been getting much rain. Pray that God would send rain as our neighbors
We baptized another covenant child in Nakaale today. There had been some speculation regarding what the name of the child would be. His Karimojong name was after a friend of the family, but as is often the case, the Christian name was a bit longer
Between a busy work schedule of late and the lack of rain—meaning I’ve got to water the garden every day, which takes awhile—most of my daylight hours have been spoken for and the riotous nightlife we have here has prevented me from doing much in
I do feel as though the agricultural analogies that we use to describe the growth(!) of the church here can dwindle into the cliche when we are reporting, but they are so unavoidable and apropos in the agrarian society that we find ourselves in. I
The question that the title of this post answers is: what are all possible values of x when x = the biblical number of wives one can take? And you thought you’d never use anything you learned in that Algebra class.
With the return of the rains, I’ve been playing farmer, beginning to plow and harrow the fields surrounding our compound in preparation for the planting season. Now before you all rush out to sign up for the missionary life of driving a tractor around all
Today is Palm Sunday, the prelude to Holy Week. Truly, I think, the story is almost too familiar to us—Jesus riding in to Jerusalem on a donkey, and the crowd laying down branches and cloaks before him shouting “Hosanna!” as he passed by. It was