Working as a Team: Health Education Mission in Uganda
Date: 2016-11-03 00:00:00Janine LeGrand is a Long-term SAMS Missionary serving in a ministry of health education in Masindi-Kitara, Uganda, where they face many health challenges. Janine shares this recent story with you:
Usually I tell you about what is happening in the health clinics, but what about the people behind the clinics that help support them?…
Pórtate bien (Behave yourself!)
I often say to the children or even to friends as a humorous goodbye, "Pórtate bien!" Behave yourself!" I certainly said it to my children as they grew up. We have a pretty clear idea of what that means when we say it to a child, but what does it mean when...
Universities in Turmoil
If you live outside of South Africa, you are probably not aware of the crisis at our universities. A little more than a year ago, university students started to protest, demanding no increase (or a very slight increase at worse) for the 2017 academic school year. Their rallying cry was #feesmustfall. At first, the protests … Continue reading Universities in Turmoil
A Normal-ish Week
So I’m going to see if I can write an update here without a completely crazy story. What?! Yep, we actually have had a pretty normal week! Two Sundays ago was Harvest for Saint Andrew’s church and school. I have never experienced a Harvest festival before, but let me…
From the Archives: A Sweating Missionary
A trip to the Zambia-Botswana Border…
How to Create Community
Date: 2016-10-10 00:00:00We know that the church is not a specific building, but the people within that specific place. However, how do we go from just a building full of people, to a community of believers striving for one common goal; to lift each other up in the name of Christ?
Our SAMS missionaries strive…