by Smooth Via | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
Our focus for our village outreaches in Uganda this year has primarily been on teaching and training our current pastors, leaders, and church members. We have over 200 churches in very rural areas throughout the country (and Kenya, South Sudan, and Rwanda). Many of...
by Smooth Via | May 8, 2015 | Blog
The old man’s body was contorted so badly that he could barely walk into the medical clinic that day. Wrecked by years of back-breaking work, and the difficult day-to-day life in the Ugandan village, he needed assistance just to move from place to place. He had...
by Smooth Via | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog
One of my favorite things that I get to do here in Uganda is lead some of what we call “Arise Africa Staff Missions.” Staff missions are when we take our staff and go out to some of our more remote village churches that U.S. volunteer teams are not able to...
by Smooth Via | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog
Some of my favorite miracles in the Bible are when God would take something small and multiply it. In the Old Testament, there was the widow who had only a handful of flour and a little olive oil. She was about to make a last meal for herself and her son and then...
by Smooth Via | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
Whenever my family and I head into Kampala, we stop at Café Javas. It was there, over coffee, that I first met Abdul. Abdul and I would chat about life and family as he was making my coffee. He always loved our girls and would give them free cookies when they greeted...
