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To Be A Sojourner
November 20, 2018   |  by Chloe

To Be A Sojourner

Warriors and Infants Alike
September 9, 2018   |  by Chloe

Warriors and Infants Alike

Suffering. We’re all acquainted with it in some form. It is acute to anyone who’s humanity began in Eden, the perfection we were made for and will never experience in this life. Death, disease, neglect, poverty, these things simply were not, but now they are

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December 15, 2017   |  by Chloe

Job, the Beloved

Uganda has about ten Christmas songs. Anywhere you go in town or village, you will hear the same ten songs (Holly Holiday, Born on Christmas Day, Jinger [sic] Bells, etc.) over and over again. At Akisyon a Yesu, the staff started the Christmas disc on

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December 12, 2017   |  by Christopher

A Case for Advent

Caught your attention? Good. We’ll get to that cobra business presently. For now, let’s just start reading at the beginning. Where do the days go? If there isn’t a sudden shortage of some important medicine or emergency maintenance request, there’s a regular stream of conflicting

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February 14, 2016   |  by Christopher

Carmel Plays with a Cobra

I often find myself lost in the midst of weeds and I wonder if I’ve drunk the wrong bottle from Alice’s wonderland or if the forest itself is somehow bewitched. I push past the everyday maze of Ugandan English to find its seeds sticking to

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September 25, 2015   |  by Chloe

The Weeds

Come ye thankful people come, raise the song of harvest home: all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied: come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home. The

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September 1, 2015   |  by Christopher

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Two deaths this week for two families of church members, employees, and friends (and it’s only Thursday). Sunday, the young niece of Acia Nicholas died. Months ago, the mission helped to get her to Mbale where she had a brain tumor removed. And while she

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July 16, 2015   |  by Christopher

The Cry Goes Up How Long

How would your behavior change if your insurance policies, savings accounts and retirement funds were entirely dependent on the people you knew, favors you could call and strangers you could cajole? I’d like to think it would make me a nicer, more sacrificial and persuasive

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November 20, 2014   |  by Chloe

A Lesson in Grace

Let’s have a quick survey: Raise your hand if you sung about prostitution and/or murder in your church service yesterday? I’m guessing, if you did raise your hand, that you are probably a missionary serving with OPUM and that I probably sang alongside you yesterday.

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November 3, 2014   |  by Christopher

The Day Jesus Returns

Pastor Dave had the singularly uncomfortable job of preaching from James 5:1-6 on Sunday. It’s a good text to preach when one is on furlough raising support, but it just doesn’t come as easily when on the mission field, especially in rural East Africa. The

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September 3, 2014   |  by Christopher

Come Now, You Rich

With apologies to those hoping for some big news from the mission, this post may not scratch you where you itch. I just came across this interesting article that was too strange not to share. You don’t often expect a web designer to draw lessons

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July 18, 2014   |  by Christopher

An Unlikely Juxtaposition

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