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If you’re on our email list you will have heard about the two deaths experienced by members of our community last week. This week, we report several additions to that number. Edward Atheo (whose son’s body we transported last Sunday) this week lost his wife (he’s now outlived five children and two wives).

October 25, 2012   |  by Christopher

The Litany of Death

This morning as we sat for morning devotions at the clinic, I was struck by the discrepancy between what we heard of the village around us and the scripture we were meditating on. Cries of “Ekonit!”, which signify that the local brew is ready for

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October 24, 2012   |  by Chloe

Jeremiah and Beer

October 14, 2012   |  by Christopher

A Study in Philippians

October 9, 2012   |  by Christopher

Happy Uhuru Day

One of the most interesting things about crossing cultures, and living in Karamoja in particular, is the deep ways that the routines of your life become unsettled. It’s been said to death that everything you take for granted is turned back on you when you

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October 8, 2012   |  by Christopher

Cultural Wisdom and Rural Internet: A Concise Guide

As many of you know, I enjoy running to keep myself in shape. In the States, I would get up before work and run down my street, along the asphalt road, up and off sidewalks and loop back home. Living in San Diego, there were

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October 3, 2012   |  by Chloe

Running in Karamoja

September 29, 2012   |  by Christopher

Child Labor

September 29, 2012   |  by Christopher

Kadaam at Sunset

I have a favorite photograph from my first visit to Karamoja—one of the mission’s workers at church on Sunday morning. The background is washed in morning light. He is smiling and wearing a mint-green broadcloth button-down shirt that he, no doubt, purchased especially to wear

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September 25, 2012   |  by Christopher

The Heart of Worship

With a new life comes new accessories. I knew life in Karamoja would be very different from my life in San Diego, but I never thought to be so pleasantly surprised by local inventions or conveniences that would assist in that transition. I thought about

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September 18, 2012   |  by Chloe

The Little Things In Life

The nights in Karamoja are simultaneously the quietest and loudest nights I’ve experienced. There is no freeway two blocks away, only anomalous cars driving along the main dirt road, no neighbors twenty feet to either side of the house and no airplanes flying over head.

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September 5, 2012   |  by Chloe

The Harvest Is In, Let the Party Begin!

I won’t try to spin this to show how God’s providence shines through it. Christ will ultimately be all in all, but right now, we are at a nadir and feeling very discouraged. One of our workers and a very faithful member of the Nakaale

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September 4, 2012   |  by Christopher

East of Eden

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