To all, Most newsletters focus on the good stuff that is happening! But we all know that doing ministry is messy.  Invading Satan’s strongholds is not smooth sailing. Especially for the last few months, our staff and children in Kabale have been facing battles from the enemy.  Ephesians 5 tells us we aren’t battling flesh and blood, but powers and dominions and evil forces in the heavenly realm!! Please lift up the ministry, our staff and children. Battle in prayer for our precious ones in...

To All, All our ministry starts with identifying needy children and finding sponsors for them who will help meet their needs!  We are excited to have had 7 children sponsored over the last few weeks!! We have 3 new children sponsored and 4 children picked up for sponsorship who had lost their sponsor.  Most of these sponsorships resulted from Charlene Semkins reaching out to an adult fellowship group at her church in Texas. She “recruited” 4 new sponsors!!  Thank you Charlene!  Maybe you know...

To All, Greetings from Kabale! Donna & I have been in Kabale this last month with Jess & Beth Ritchie and our incredible 2 Roads staff.  We arrived in Entebbe Uganda under the CDC’s level 4 (do not travel mandate).  Having not been able to travel here for the past year and half we were quite determined to come.  God made a way! There are lots of restrictions here due to COVID, but we are still able to do God’s work.  Each day we have been able to meet with 5 or 6 children.  We started...

To all, Soon school here in America will be out for the summer!  For most of our kids in Uganda they will continue as some of them just returned to school.  Some may get only a 2-week break and then start right back.  As I mentioned last month, most of our sponsored children are back in school. Our sponsored children are actually very excited to be back at school. We realize that most of you who read our newsletter already sponsor children.  For that we are very grateful!! We have about 130...

To all, Many of our students have returned to school or will return soon.  I want to contrast 2 young ladies who both live in Kabale Uganda, Angel and Janet.  A year ago, they were in the same situation.  They both live in “families” with 8 children.  They attended school sporadically when there was enough money scraped together to send them.  Now one, Angel, has a sponsor but Janet still does not.  This is Angel.  Angel is the sixth of eight children and she is 16 years old. Her mother works...

To all, In this newsletter we will hear from our newly married director Amos! He will share some insights into marriage in Uganda.  He will also share about our tutoring program.  Finally, we will share what is going on concerning schools opening back up in Uganda. From Amos: Tyra and I got married on 02/13/2021! We thank each one of you for prayers and support. The road to marriage in Africa and Uganda in particular is a little longer than I presume in the US and other western countries. ...

Feb 4, 2021 Of course, the big news at 2Roads is the wedding coming up in just 9 days!  Amos, our Uganda 2Roads Director, will be marrying Tyra, our social worker and Missions director on Feb13th!! I will repost the picture of Amos proposing to Tyra last year at the source of the Nile. I hope next month to share some wedding photos! I mentioned, last month, that the lockdown of Uganda has had a huge impact on our children and their families in Kabale. We are hearing now that school for...

Jan 7, 2021 Writing this newsletter comes at a time of great turmoil and uncertainty in our country. Yesterday we all watched the chaotic events unfold at the Capital in Washington D.C..  There is so much despair in our world; both here and in Uganda. Uganda is in the middle of a national presidential election also. Of course, overriding everything we do is COVID-19.  What disruption it caused last year! Everyone I know was ready to move on from the year 2020…yet 2021 is already shaping up to...