{"id":154,"date":"2010-06-14T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/06\/14\/amazing-time-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:03:38","slug":"amazing-time-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/06\/14\/amazing-time-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing time in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends. I&#8217;ve returned safely from another amazing training time in northern Uganda. As we prayed, God blessed our trip in some very exciting ways. I&#8217;ll put together a prayer letter soon, or maybe I can pull a video together, but for now, I&#8217;ll share a picture and summarize with these bullet points:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/100_66971.JPG\" title=\"Ugandan leaders at pastor training workshop\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/100_66971.JPG\" alt=\"Ugandan leaders at pastor training workshop\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 15-25 leaders at various times attended our training in a wide range of theological subjects.<\/li>\n<li>I preached in the village church, followed by a baby dedication where I was asked to name the child, so I gave her one of my favorite names, &#8220;Shekinah.&#8221; Following this we went to a river and I baptized 13 believers, and later found out crocodiles regularly swam in that river!<\/li>\n<li>I was asked to be the Uganda national leader for ReachGlobal in our partnership with this cluster of churches in northern Uganda. We have a great relationship growing!<\/li>\n<li>Since the power is only on for a few hours each night in northern Uganda, I&#8217;d get up early in the mornings to go for a run down the dirt roads, and would be followed by a\u00a0gathering of giggling school children.<\/li>\n<li>Relationships were built and strengthened as we shared our hearts in how to grow God&#8217;s kingdom in\u00a0Uganda.<\/li>\n<li>I was also asked to conduct another training in central Kenya with a long-time friend of mine, Kenyan pastor Kioko Mwangangi. \u00a0He requested I try to do the training in Swahili, so I have my work cut out for me!<\/li>\n<li>Returning back to my family was a sweet blessing, and we all reaffirmed how sweet it is to belong in a family!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you friends for your faithful prayers. God heard and answered! Pressing on, Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends. I&#8217;ve returned safely from another amazing training time in northern Uganda. As we prayed, God blessed our trip in some very exciting ways. I&#8217;ll put together a prayer letter soon, or maybe I can pull a video together, but for now, I&#8217;ll share a picture and summarize with these bullet points: Between 15-25 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2010\/06\/14\/amazing-time-in-uganda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazing time in Uganda<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}