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Ronnie and Maggie Briggs
- May 15, 2017
Blessed and Privileged
It may be an unusual way of working, but the pattern we follow as Mission Partners is two years in Kajiado and then four months in Ireland for Home Assignment. It takes about two months of preparation with all the staff in Kajiado to ensure that our various roles will continue while we’re away, Sometimes, only the promise of a phone call or an email will actually make it possible. All Mission Partners face the same issues when ‘leave’ finally comes around. Of course, Home Ass
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Paul and Tania Baker
- May 15, 2017
I was in Prison
I’m guessing the above title got your attention? “…I was in prison, and you visited me.” Not my words, but those of Jesus (Matthew 25:36). Half a dozen of the hospital staff make a trip every other Sunday. They go and spend some time at one of the many prisons in this region of Uganda. Their mission is simple: to hold a church service, tell the inmates and guards about Jesus and lead them to him. These men and women are in the depths of despair and our Prison Ministry team gi
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