Uganda: Yellow Fever, Fundraising, and Letters

We're pressing on... there are many things that need to be done in preparation for our trip to Uganda, but most urgent has been documentation and fundraising.

Last week, we sent our documentation packet to WH to continue the visa application process. We were required to first have yellow fever vaccinations before sending in our applications, and there seems to be a bit of a YF vaccine shortage in some areas of the country. So, we're thankful that God made a way for our entire team to get the vaccine on time! And it was just in time!!

Fundraising continues to move forward, although we still have a very long way to go before we reach the $3500 per person required. Our group has already hosted a couple of Parent's Night Outs, and this weekend is our benefit concert with One Life Lost and Richard Jordan. We're thinking about having a garage sale later this month, and my little neice has been hard at work selling cookies at her local bowling alley. We have also begun to send out support letters to friends and family and church members... we simply cannot reach our goals without God pouring out His favor on this trip through the generosity of those who hear about our trip and respond.

We are trying to be faithful by doing our part, but we are fully aware that our mere human efforts will prove useless unless the Lord pours out His favor on us.

"Some trust in chariots and some trust in horses,

but we trust in the name of the Lord our God."

Psalms 20:7

So as we come to mind, please pray that God will continue to meet our needs... that His favor would be upon our upcoming fundraisers... that He would continue to place our needs on the hearts of other church members, family members, and friends who will partner with us through prayer and giving.

"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."

~ Ephesians 3:20-21 ~