Hello partners!

First of all, thank you so much for all your support. We truly couldn’t have done this without each of you. As you know, we will be leaving this Thursday, October 8th, for Arua! We are all so excited and the team is ready to go. Our trip coordinators have given us a schedule of every thing that will be doing while we are gone and I wanted to share this with you.
Friday, 9th- Arrival in Kampala. We will spend one night here. From here, we will travel by bus for 7 hours to the camp in Arua.
Sat 10th- Arrival in Arua and rest
Sun 11th- Church and rest
Mon 12th- Minister to YWAM staff at Arua base camp and then minister in the male and female prisons, about an hour’s drive from base
Tues 13th- Minister in the local hospital and then travel to Elim to stay the night
Wed 14th- 5 hour seminar for church at Elim and travel back to base
Thur 15th- Hospital ministry and then minister at local women’s Muslim group
Fri 16th- Safari
Sat 17th- Teach, lead small groups and play with HIV+ young people. (These will be mostly teenagers, so you know we are excited about this!!!)
Sun 18th- Leave for America
Mon 19th- Arrive back in Georgia

Please be in prayer for us each day as we minister. Pray that we will be focused and clearly hear God’s voice, that the people we are ministering to will be open to Him and for our safety as we travel. On a personal note, we just found out that we will have no communication with those at home while we are gone. So, please keep us and our kids in your prayers. I’ve never been this long without speaking to them! I know they will be in great care with the grandparents and probably won’t notice we’re gone, they’ll be having so much fun! We are so excited that it is getting hard to sleep at night. Only 4 days until Africa!!!! We will send you pictures and stories as soon as we return. Thank you so much for your partnership and know that everywhere we go and everything we do while there, you are doing as well through your partnership with us.

Together in the Cause that Counts,
Michael and Amy