Dear Friends,

We have been given one life and daily we must use it to glorify the Lord. As believers our job is to make God look good and when that happens, we discover our purpose in life and are embraced by a unique joy. Having experienced this special joy year after year, we are now planning our ninth annual trek to Uganda. God has blessed us and this ministry has blossomed: ten churches have been planted; in addition we have helped with the construction of a high school, junior high, a clinic, maternity ward, orphanage, radio stations, and ten homes for pastors.

This year we are preparing to plant our eleventh church. To understand the seriousness of our mission, you have to put yourself in a rural village in Uganda—Branch in human terms is in the middle of nowhere. It is a poor village with no infrastructure; the people eek out a living through raising crops; the village is not even on large maps of Uganda. I suspect most of its residents have never heard a clear presentation of the Gospel.

Our major goal this year is to raise up a Christian witness in this village, by building a church facility and pastor’s home to the end that a congregation of worshippers is raised up. The materials for these structures must be transported over miles of dirt roads that often resemble stream beds. Last week we were able to send the funds needed to purchase two acres of land for this new ministry. Already God has provided a host of workers to erect the building. We hope to start on the construction soon before the rains come. Upon our arrival on June 14^th, our plan is to go hut to hut doing evangelism during the day, while sharing the Gospel with many in the village through evening crusades. Then, on our last Sunday there, we hope to install the new pastor and dedicate the new facility.

This scene from last year could be the scene in Branch this June!! 

This is not easy work; it takes God’s providence, as well as the focus, determination, prayers and financial support of many of God’s people. Nothing this important can be accomplished without sacrifice and holy sweat. It takes 40 hours to get to Uganda from Hawaii, and then we travel seven hours up into the mountains. Each member of the team must carry supplies—medicines, Bibles, Sunday School literature, generators, musical instruments, sound equipment. But as a team, we can be used by God to change a village.

Our motto at Trinity this year is "Expect Great Things From God, Attempt Great Things For God." It is with a confident expectation that Christ will display His saving grace and in obedience to Him that we attempt this task. Basically we are asking God to continue to use a small church in Hawaii to impact a large portion of NE Uganda for eternity.

God is working in a unique way in this part of Uganda. A small investment there can reap large dividends. A church in Uganda costs about what many Americans would pay for an SUV. Now we need American Christians to come along side the dear Christians of this district and help them purchase the bricks, mortar, sand and roofing.

In addition to our church planting work, we continue to support Christian education and the care of our orphans. Recently we were able to help with the completion of Bethel Junior High School, which has just opened with 250 children attending.

In addition, at our high school, the new dormitory is now complete and 200 students are registered. And through the generous gifts of some Christians outside of our church, we now have a new girl’s dorm at the orphanage.

And Mehpibosheth Hall (above, right) has had a face lift and is nearing completion.

Please pray for this work and help us financially if God lays this on your heart. In keeping with the command of Christ to "Go and make disciples of all nations" and our desire to help expand the Kingdom of God in Uganda, we share with you our vision for this year.

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If you would like to help financially in the work in Uganda and accomplish our Grace Uganda Goals, (sending Pastor Pete to Uganda, building the new church in the village of Branch, modernizing the Yancey Medical Clinic, and the work of evangelism in Uganda), please  Click Here to Donate to Work in Uganda