Bring them up into the high mountain

Of all the disciples Peter, James and John were the closest to Jesus. He took them apart from the twelve and showed them very deep moments on the mountain. He chose the twelve out of the 72. He saw their desire to be with him. This shows to us the circles of discipleship. God sees our desire and strives for Him and brings us closer. This pattern we can see as we do ministry in the foreign land. So, where do we choose to be today? Among the 72? Or in the 12? Or, maybe even in the 3 with Peter, John, and James? He sees our hearts and our desires to strive to reach him how he has reached us.

For All Club

We’ve had two of our clubs in the new year. Hall was full of both. Some people came because their friends told them about Christians and they were curious to see what it is like. We had a great time both times. Be in prayer for the hearts of those people. Pray that those non-Christian attenders would decide to make a next step to visit our Church’s picnic on May 9th. Pray that the Holy Spirit continues to work in their hearts leading to accepting Jesus as their personal Savior.

Praise and Prayer Points

We are going to have a workshop for our leaders in late March. It is a time where we meet and discuss plans for outreach. Please pray for our church’s picnic on May 9th. It is a unique time where we spend time together with those who are “close to the church”. Also, continue to pray for the preparation for our Summer Family Camp. And of course, Easter. Pray that the worship halls are full on that day. Please pray that our leaders continue to make disciples in an effective way.

Friends and Family

Tim and Christina are a great bridge to Liliya’s Muslim relatives. Sometimes they listen to them more because they partly represent their nation. Pray that they would have opportunities to share the good news with our Tatar part of the family. Continue to pray for Liliya’s father too. It is surprising how long he has been living under his condition. Apparently, because of the prayers of the saints and good care.
Thank you for your faithful prayer and support of this work of the Kingdom!

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Ufa Bible Ministries
PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202

Praises & Prayers — Howeths’ Uganda Journey

Praises

Greetings from a still very dry and dusty Uganda. We are seeing some hints of rain, did I say that last time too?! Maybe more hints now but my goodness it is dry! I wonder about the farmers and those that really need to get the crops going.
I planted some seeds believing that we would see rain to no avail. We did get just a smidgen of rain last night and you had to look hard to be sure. When it does come it is usually in buckets after such a length of time!
February was busy with schools starting again, the volunteers here and Bill finding a person to help translate some of his material, sitting in for Calvary & starting the FMLK Chapel again. Both of us have been struggling a bit from health challenges on top of a busy schedule. I’m finally now getting some traction from hitting the ground when Princess pulled me down.
Bill just returned from a trip to Kampala, I did not join him this time. He saw the chiropractor and is using PT here for his sciatica. We are both grateful that we are still moving and doing pretty good!
We also visited our two sets of friends in Mbarara south of us about three and half hours. The roads were bad. AND I forget to get photos. Our American Missionary friends that have been here forever, have a lot to look forward to in retirement. They are moving to northern AZ. A life of service in a Bible School! We hope to see them again before they go mid-year. Skip was a close partner years ago with George who Bill now partners with.
The other American Missionary couple are really busy with life changes as their children start to become college age. One child will be with them after they travel back later this year. They take there twin daughters to college this summer and a son that is in Greece now studying, will join in the US college somewhere.

Above: You can see the dryness in our yard and the smokey skies. They will burn a lot and unfortunately they also will burn toxic trash. It makes it difficult and we have to close up and not go out for a while. Its helpful that it mostly end of day or into night so we can just go in. It is also when you want open your windows to cool down. This was a morning shot so the previous evening burn is more prevalent.

More Praises & Challenges! — Girls Dorm Fundraiser!

Again we are so grateful to everyone who has given & prayed for the girls dorm fundraiser. We accomplished the grading so the authorities will know we are working on it!! We have someone local that will has started on the gathering the paper work and submitting it to the governmental offices so once we are in a position to start the build we will start updating everyone again. The numbers are the same so we will update you as we start and get some accomplishments going.
We are excited to start but a bit overwhelmed with school starting, the volunteers here, the hiring of many new teachers and some other exciting things going on. Timing is everything!

Exciting!! FMLK now has a well and several taps on the property at the school. We are attempting to add for the Early Childhood development Center. Many thanks to KUKURA the Spanish Group that keeps coming!! The well is at the bottom of the property down by the ponds. The well, top left, the pump and electric runs go all the way up the hill to the boys dorm . We are looking at getting solar to help with that repeated expense.

Prayers

 Please pray for the new staff at FMLK to be honest and upright. Prayer that the unseen is seen!!
 Pray for another couple of streams of funding for FMLK. This is an on-going prayer. We certainly see God providing from these young Spanish volunteers and even in this there are parameters and stops.
 Pray for the fundraiser for the Dorm & Fencing (not on the docket yet?) needed as the requirement from the government. We are so close to the dorm being fully funded!! Thanks to you!!
 Please continue to pray as Bill teaches and shares and has these new opportunities to speak to not only leaders but the youth as well.
 We met with another couple (see pic) on partnering in another youth activity. More on this later, pray I have the Spirits Guidance as I minister to these youths. Bill may step in at some point as well?
 Please continue to pray for the Muslim community. Pray for the Lord to invite these friends into a deeper relationship with the Christian community, dreams/visions, and the Lord Himself. This is the Ramadan season.
 Pray for the Muslim woman I love and having great Spiritual conversations with and that it is all worthy of her considering Christ. We stay in con-tact and she is such a delight!!
 Pray as we serve to see with Spiritual eyes and boldness in these days. Pray that our every effort will make God known and pleasing to Him.
 Join us in prayer, for all of us to see Him as the author and finisher of our days and the desire to fulfill His purpose for each of us!! You too!!
 Pray as Bill has his sciatica addressed. We’re praying for no surgery and the chiropractor to treat him long term. It is promising, yet she is all the way to Kampala. He does have a PT here in Fort Portal that he is seeing.
 Pray as I address the injury from Princess. It is slow and I’m not great at being so slow. Nor at taking pills. The material stated 2-6 months for healing, at 2 months 1 week I was much better, but not completely healed yet. Looking forward to full healing now doing 1/3 of the pills!! So grateful!

For whosoever will save his life

The Gospel feels deeper on the mission field. Receiving Christ as personal Savior here a person goes through the whole array of feelings and motions. One time we had a guy who made a list of all the people he had offended. He was deter-mined to contact each of them with the words of apologies and asking how he could repay the harm he had done. Another time we had a woman who said she would go to her village to preach about Jesus not matter what she could face there. Over and over we see such stories where God does dramatic things for his kingdom. I can only encourage every Christian to visit these mission frontiers to emerge in this wonderful work of the Spirit.

ESL Students

The base of our ESL students’ work is expanding. I was surprised to learn this month how many young children have grown up and became young adults. Please remain in prayer for the hearts of those people. Pray that their hearts will be led to Christ to receive the truth of God’s Word. Also, pray that this door of opportunity continues to be open and we can preach the good news through this venue.

Praise and Prayer Points

We have a new family in our work here. He is a former drug addict and he had a rough life prior to coming to Christ. Besides their own children they also have an adopted child. Their hearts are on the missions. They want to eventually go serve overseas. Please pray that those leaders continue to make disciples in an effective way.
It is the time of a year when we present this prayer request about our websites. We need $200 to cover our websites and hosting for another year.

Friends and Family

The school year is at its highest. We resumed our school year in January and it turns to be even busier than anything we’ve had before. Pray for the wise scheduling and stamina as we go through the programs. Continue to pray for the parents of our kids’ friends. This base is also expanding.
Thank you for your prayer and support. Thank you for holding our hands!

You can make tax deductible contribution to Ufa Bible Ministries which is recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit entity. Make checks payable to:
Ufa Bible Ministries
PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202

Praises & Prayers: Howeths’ Uganda Journey

Praises

Greetings from a very dry and dusty Uganda! It changed quickly after sending the last P&P. I’m not sure if I spell these two correctly but in the local Rutooro it would be called achocho and in Luganda fufu. At any rate it translate to dust. The nice thing is the masks were introduced in covid and everyone uses them now in this season.
I mentioned we were out of the shoots as the new year came I’ll share what I can here and some of the pictures. I’ve got to train myself to start taking more photos again. Not sure why but it seems I’m more focused on what is being said and going on and find myself going back to take pics.
You’ll see where the removal of the structures on the site where the girls dorm will be was accomplished and the grading was started. Since the new school year just started and there are so many other activities we will start again later this month on the official paper work and governmental processes.
We are off to a good start at the school with the majority of teachers hired but still lacking a couple of slots which we hope to fill soon. One of the school board members has offered to be the chapel overseer and is trustworthy so a sigh of relief there that we can start on that as soon as some of all these other activities slow down.
The efforts for an Early Childhood Development Center was decided on for the babies home. There is just no way to start an orphanage through the government without the contingencies that would be almost impossible to overcome. There are good reason for it as well. As much as you want to see the children taken care of you find that many are not orphans but abandoned.
Also as you see in news everywhere, children become a commodity that is abused and used. Too many incidences that have been uncovered and not just the locals. So with all of that said the babies home will be for day care and with a sliding scale but we hope to have it self-sustaining with the excess going back to the core business of schooling the primary children at Feed My Lamb Kabarole.

Above: Might be a bit hard to make out but the left side is what’s left of the brick building being knocked down. That was adjacent to the animal shelters. Those were all pulled down and now the materials are seen on the right in front of block 1 at the school. This is a pano pic so a bit distorted.

More Praises & Challenges!

Girls Dorm Fundraiser!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! We will continue to work towards getting this accomplished but will be taking our time and assuring the funds are well spent and accounted for. We’ve been here now long enough to see the need of intentional and consistent oversight! I haven’t heard that the government has been back yet, but could be because its always a little crazy at the start of the year as well.

Bill’s FMLK class before school started, just at the end of January.

Prayers

 Please pray for the new staff at FMLK to be honest and upright.
 Pray for another couple of streams of funding for FMLK. This is an ongoing prayer. We certainly see God providing from these young Spanish volunteers and even in this there are parameters and stops.
 Pray for the fundraiser for the Dorm & Fencing (not on the docket yet?) needed as the requirement from the government.
 Please continue to pray as Bill teaches and shares and has these new opportunities to speak to not only leaders but the youth as well. We also will be meeting with another couple here soon on partnering in another youth activity that I have had on my heart forever!!
 Please continue to pray for the Muslim community that we (several of us believers) have communication and surface relationships with. Pray for the Lord to invite these friends into a deeper relationship with the Christian community, dreams/visions, and the Lord Himself.
 Pray for the Muslim woman I love and having great Spiritual conversations with and that it is all worthy of her considering Christ. We stay in contact and she is such a delight!!
 Pray as we serve to see with Spiritual eyes and boldness in these days. Pray that our every effort will make God known and pleasing to Him.
 Join us in prayer, for all of us to see Him as the author and finisher of our days and the desire to fulfill His purpose for each of us!!
 Pray as Bill has his sciatica addressed. We’re praying for no surgery and the chiropractor to treat him long term. It is promising, yet she is all the way to Kampala. He does have a PT here in Fort Portal that he is seeing.
 Pray as I address the injury from Princess. It is slow and I’m not great at being so slow. Nor at taking pills.
Above: Another exciting project. The Vocational Center. Starting soon we will have a local woman I’ve known and have watched for sometime to come in and oversee this area. She’ has an incredible story and will be helping revamp this program and area. She will help us identify the potential leaders from the center and then continue to improve and grow, change up the status quo. We haven’t had the ability earlier with Clare so busy but I will oversee the oversight but I see this as an incredible opportunity for us both. More photos soon.
“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail. Job 14:7
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