Dear Friends,
I will be leaving Wednesday, the 30th, to my
other home across the ocean. I wanted to share with you about the upcoming
trip.
In Uganda, I will be working in our 24
libraries. The team will come June 15th. We will complete two libraries started
last year and create four new ones. I am looking forward to my two-day meeting
with headmasters, and later two days with all of our librarians.
Before going to Uganda, I will go to Kenya. This
is not a Libraries of Love trip … simply a ‘Trudy’ side mission. Last year, as
I wrote in a newsletter, after leaving Uganda, I went to see a Masai pastor
friend, Peter, in the remotest part of Kenya. We visited places where school
and churches meet under trees. After returning, I shared the situation with the
pastor of Pflugerville Community Church. Their church is now donating funding
to build three buildings in Masailand. Two will be schools – also used for
churches. The third was Peter’s request, as he needs a building to use as
a seminary to train the approx. 60 pastors under his care. **May God
bless PCC and their pastor, Steve Clem, for this incredible donation.
Peter had shared that the pastors needed Bibles,
so I posted the need to Facebook. With the help of friends and New Life Baptist
Church in Pflugerville, I will be able to purchase around 100 Bibles in
Nairobi, which will be in the Masai language. There will be some happy pastors!
Peter has a pastors’ conference in April. Wilber, my Ugandan pastor, is going
to preach at the conference, so I will go to Uganda the first of March – and
return with Wilber for the five day conference.
There you have it – by the time I return in
August, there will be two new school – churches, one seminary, two completed
libraries, and four new ones. How incredible is that?! I am so thankful
for the donors and volunteers that make it all possible. Amazing people
they are! As always – all the glory belongs to God.
I will try to stay in touch and plan on
returning August 15.
May our God keep us until we meet again.
Trudy
