I have been in Uganda for two weeks now and just as the rest of the team have arrived from the UK there has been plenty going on personally. As a board member I have been overseeing TEAMS church and the GL12 ministry since January 2015 and that has required [...]
It has been a long time since anyone has blogged and there has been good reason for that. Whilst we love to keep our followers and supporters updated on progress, we have been extremely busy re-branding the website. We felt it was best to spend time and plan for an [...]
Returning to UK on Wednesday 27th August, stepping back onto British concrete and seeing the familiar sites in Terminal 3, there was no mistake that we were home. After saying our goodbyes we departed to our individual journeys home. Although, we corporately journeyed to Uganda together, individually our life journey [...]
Mission to Uganda August 14
Definition
The most common Greek word for self-control (temperance, KJV) is enkrateia - Its root meaning is: power over oneself or self-mastery. Self-control and is also the virtue that holds our appetites in check, controlling our rational will or regulating our conduct without being duly swayed by [...]
Mission to Uganda August 14
Joy is often misunderstood for happiness a lot of the time. Happiness is an unstable state whereby we can move in and out of happy moods. whereas Joy is the complete opposite. Joy is designed to always remain within us, no matter what circumstance or position [...]
Peace - "without peace there is no trust in God"
Today’s devotional topic is peace.What does peace mean?
Freedom from disturbances, quiet, tranquil and calm.
Being in the world, peace is seen as something of a temporary nature. I never knew what the true meaning of peace was through Christ.
Being peaceful [...]
Mission to Uganda August 14
I didn’t really understand what the word long suffering meant. I thought it meant to suffer long (and in some ways maybe that is true) but, as I looked up the definition of long suffering, in the Websters dictionary informed me that it is:
1. (n.) Bearing [...]
As the theme for the trip is the fruits of the spirit we have looking into the different aspects of this. Today the theme was ‘goodness.’
What have we experienced so far? A series of delays for the journey, lack of sleep and also long days. However this is not negative. [...]