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LOVING THE WORLD
Preparing for God’s Work in Uganda In just a few weeks a team of nine covenant partners are headed to Uganda to meet with FPC’s new Global Missions partner, Operation Uganda (OU). Our mission while there? In a word, it’s Relationship. Our goals? Listening well, praying much and sharing encouragement (and some books, balls and craft/art supplies!). Building relationships with our new partner is key because we serve a God who created us for relationship with Him and with each other! While we will visit with other ministries as well, the majority of our time will be spent with Operation Uganda. This amazing ministry is the product of a fire that destroyed Pastors Russell and Jenny Barton’s family home in Australia. From that experience, the Barton’s sensed God’s call to relocate in Uganda. Upon arrival, they saw the extensive toll that war, conflict, and disease, especially AIDS had taken on the country, so the Barton family jumped in serving those who most desperately needed it, orphaned children. Today, they are a well-established ministry serving the Lord through community development as they live out their mission to “Rescue – Empower – Transform” both orphaned and highly vulnerable children and widowed or single, destitute mothers, while creating sustainable community development through worship, education, training and relationship!
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