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Christopher & Chloe Verdick | missionaires in Karamoja

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Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough. You drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns

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November 18, 2020   |  by Chloe

Musings on Haggai: Consider Your Ways

Last year, the harvest was good. I suspected that when it was happening, by the sheer number of drumbeat led, moonlight parties in the village. The number of marriages that took place within a short time after harvest, made me smile at people’s good fortune.

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June 26, 2020   |  by Chloe

Births and Weeding, Signs of the Time

The threat of COVID is still here. Lockdown is in full swing. And masks are the new fashion statement. Some form of lockdown has been in place for the last eight weeks in Uganda. Church services have been cancelled including all gatherings with more than

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May 21, 2020   |  by Chloe

Update

In my feeble attempts to observe Lent this year I read (mostly) a devotional by Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own. It has short daily devotionals and prayers, just enough for a busy mother to be able to swallow each day. In one entry,

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April 16, 2020   |  by Chloe

Liminal Night

These are times we won’t forget. When President Museveni made the announcement last Wednesday that closed all schools for all ages across the country for a month due to COVID-19, I was standing in a grocery store watching it on their televisions for sale. A

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March 26, 2020   |  by Chloe

Yes, COVID-19 is here too

“Our life is not willed by God to be an endless anxiety. It is, rather, meant to be an embrace, but that entails being caught by God.” – Walter Brueggemann Grief to grief. Night to night. Trial to temptation to failure to burden. This is

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March 17, 2020   |  by Chloe

Heavenly Embrace

Days pass, the mountain of things untold grows, and yet it’s hard to know what to write! We’ve been back from furlough for nine months. We’ve written about people leaving the field and others joining us. We’ve told you of our trips to visit friends

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February 17, 2020   |  by Chloe

Miracles and Plagues

Here is grace. For seven years, including two pregnancies many sleepless nights and busy days I was never diagnosed with malaria. Here is grace. I experienced my first case of malaria only a few days after being treated for another disease which I had avoided

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August 12, 2019   |  by Chloe

Here

Sunrise’s Horizon
March 12, 2019   |  by Chloe

Sunrise’s Horizon

Furlough Colors
March 6, 2019   |  by Chloe

Furlough Colors

We’ve landed in San Diego! We plan to be stateside for six months, at the end of which we hope to return to Uganda and continue with the work. We look forward to enjoying time with family and many of you! Don’t be shy, we’d be happy to see you and catch up.

November 14, 2018   |  by Chloe

Landed

Goodbyes, goodbyes, how I wish to bid you adieu Farewells, farewells, if only you would take your leave This week, we said goodbye to dear friends and teammates Dave and Sunshine Okken with their children Caleb, Megan and Jacob. It is difficult to say how

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July 13, 2018   |  by Chloe

Bittersweet Goodbyes

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