Hey all!

I was asked by a friend a question about my ministry work here, and I realize that I haven’t really told you all what kind of ministry I have been involved in. I apologize for that, but here is just a small tidbit of some of the work I have been helping with for the past few weeks.

This entire week in Gulu has been full of different ministry including: working with and getting to know girls from ages 8 to 14 who have been affected by the war and sex trafficking and who are now orphans or unable to live at home, helping people move, painting a house, organizing offices and necklaces, these necklaces are made by ten women who I have also gotten to know over the week who are from the Congo and have been affected by war in horrible ways and now make these necklaces to make money to support their families and livelihood. There is an organization here called the ZionProject, that started the Imani Woman, which is the women who make the necklaces (mentioned above) and who are also the ones that started the girl’s home (also mentioned above).

Every new place that I go has been completely different ministry opportunities, which has been really awesome! For example, in Kampala I worked solely with a school there helping the teachers with the kids and the lunch ladies with breakfast and lunches, and in Eldoret, Kenya it was a lot of preaching and teaching and encouragement to the church there. It’s all been really different, but really good because I am able to get a taste of what I really enjoy and what I found challenging and how I can grow in each new area I encounter.

So that’s a quick run through of ministry life here. Always different, yet always the same: always serving God. This is my purpose, and I am honoured to have so many ways to fulfill that.

Tomorrow my team and I head back to Ethiopia, which will probably be about five solid days of travel. We will go to Jinka, a town in the south and stay for about two weeks. I will hopefully be able to update you again once I am back in Ethiopia.

Until then, take care. Thank you again for your prayers, for I would not be able to be sustained while here without the help of God which comes through the support you give me. :)

Love always,

Fina