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COVID-19: Update on Missionaries and SAMS Response
The SAMS home office is complying with government directives to help public health efforts. Though our staff is dispersed, we continue to minister at full capacity focusing on our mission and supporting your missionaries around the globe. Standard contact methods are...
A New Baby Update
This is an update with some really good news about our family, and some complicated news for our ministry due to COVID-19 in Belize (but let’s be clear at the outset, there’s no reason to panic!). Mary Beth and I found out a short while ago that we…
COVID-19 Call to Prayer for Mission & Missionaries
A special message and extraordinary entreaty for prayer from Stewart Wicker, SAMS Mission Director: “Keep your eyes fixed upon Jesus,” prayed Seth, after he shared with me the story of Peter walking on the water toward the Lord. As the waves of pandemic are raging...
Not how we wanted to end
It wasn’t supposed to end like this! This week we had to make the hard decision to suspend our year with Fellows Nate and Christian. We had so much left to do, so much more to process, and so much more to say to each other. Two weeks ago Christian, Nate…
Ugandan quarantine
I must say, it has been quite surreal to read the news about Coronavirus in the world, especially in the US, mostly because it’s hard to see the people I love being affected, and it’s hard to be so far away and not able to help anyone.
On Wednesday, the President of…
Sending Community Empowers Youth in Uganda Through Teach Men to Fish
The following article is reproduced from the latest edition of The Messenger with extra pictures that did not make it into print. Read the full edition of The Messenger at this link! The saying goes that “no man is an island,” and this is especially true of...