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TBI Update
Trinity Center for World Mission has had teams in East Africa for five weeks teaching Christian Ethics. God has blessed and we have been able to teach: 160 students in Gulu Northern Uganda 172 students in Kasese Eastern Uganda 197 students in Kigale, Rwanda 150 students in Endebess, Western Kenya…
One Last Note by Charlie King
Friends, I am on my way home… it’s Monday morning, in the airport at Amsterdam, and I am waiting a flight to Atlanta. I am drinking – gratefully – a good cup of coffee and staring at a bag of Rwanda coffee that Starbucks is selling for $15 a quarter kilo. Hmm,…
Teaching in Kigali by Charlie King
Friends, James has been doing the devotions in the mornings. There is a clip of some of the singing below – I don’t think that there is a weak singer among all our students. It’s extraordinary. Audio only, click play to listen. His message this morning was from Eph 2:8…
In Kigali, locked churches, and Caesar’s help by Charlie King
Friends, Here in Kigali, a new week of instruction has begun. We got off to a good start: on time, with 150 students, rested and fed, all with Bibles and notebooks… and lots of questions. Far more than 150 asked to attend. Nehemie, the head of the team here, tells…
From Kasese to Kigali by Charlie King
Friends, We have wrapped up in Kasese and made the trip to Kigali, Rwanda in one piece. It’s Saturday night, and I am in the guest house in the ALARM campus in Kigali. Lazarus dropped James and me off at the border crossing and we “footed it,” as they say here, through…
Dispatch from Kasese by Charlie King
Friends, Kasese is the district seat, as well as the capital of the Bakonzo people (who make up our students here). The compound of their traditional leader, which they call the Omasinga, is here also. The Bakonzo have inhabited the Rwenzori mountain region from at least the time of colonization, since coming…
On to Kasese by Charlie King
Friends, It’s Sunday. We travelled from Gulu to Kasese yesterday, covering about 650 Km in 10 hours – about half of that was on murram, which is crushed stone that hardens over time, or just plain old dirt. Lazarus hung in there though, and we arrived in one piece. Sometimes the road was…
Grace Church, Kitgum, the Moral Law, and other things by Charlie King
Friends, On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, while TBI was proceeding in Gulu, I travelled to a smaller town called Kitgum, about 120 Km to the east of Gulu. It has been depressed; indeed during the civil war, and then during the years of the LRA, Kitgum was a virtual island. For…
Gulu and the issue of witchcraft by Charlie King
We are into our training week here in Gulu, at one of the churches that TCWM built many years ago, called Grace Church. It has had its ups and downs, but is doing well now, mostly due to the leadership of its pastor, Komagum Patrick. There are some photos below…
Update from Gulu by Charlie King
Friends, We have arrived in Gulu, and setting up to conduct a week’s worth of training at Grace Church at Aworang, just outside of Gulu. While visiting this afternoon, after church, James got this picture of the Aworang Women’s Savings Coop. At the Church the women began a savings program…