International External Focus Director Rick Howard is traveling today with Pastor Todd Wagner, Chad Pinson, and Celestin Musekura to spend time in Sudan and Kenya: teaching, meeting with ALARM staff, and looking at future opportunities for us to impact over there! Stay tuned for any updates they’re able to send. But you can read a [...]
Read it here (http://watermarkblogs.org/africa/2011/10/02/glory-to-god-for-an-amazing-day/), and come back from more updates throughout the week!
Earlier this year Watermark Justice partnered with African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM) to conduct another lawyers conference in the war-torn Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which for over 15 years has experienced millions of deaths and sexual violence reaching levels worthy of the description “rape genocide.” We again traveled with a team [...]
Thanks to each of you for your support of my latest trip to Africa leading a group of Watermark lawyers. It was an amazing trip that was made possible by your generosity and the generosity of the other members of my team and their families and friends. This year’s trip was to Bukavu, Congo a [...]
Home sweet home…We returned safely to Dallas this afternoon about 30 hours of travel. We are all so grateful for your prayers for us, the ALARM staff in Congo, and the 170 Congolese men and women we were able to teach God’s principles to in Bukavu, Congo. We are also thankful for the financial support [...]
We spent the night at the border of Congo and Rwanda, so we could catch our flight to Kigali. Our ALARM hosts arranged for us to go into the countryside and visit 2 genocide memorials. Both were churches that Tutsis thought would be safehavens from the slaughter in April 1994. Instead, they were trapped inside [...]
We landed late last night at the Entebbe airport, and only 3 out of our 27 bags didn’t make it. The bags will be delivered tomorrow to the ALARM office in Kampala. This morning we had breakfast with our team before we went to the Watoto Church to worship. It was a joy to praise [...]
An update from our team in Burundi: Thanking God for a safe 5 hour drive to Muyinga. We spent the evening adjusting our teaching to include addressing the issue of witchcraft. Muyinga, Burundi we learned yesterday has the highest concentration of people actively engaged in witchcraft in the whole country. Pray for us and the pastors and women leaders [...]
We received the below update from Nelson Okello, ALARM Uganda Country Director. The following stages have been accomplished so far: a) Land: Land has been bought in phases (Jan 2008-April 2010) we now have land that measures about 250 by 200 meters, the community has been very positive in selling additional land willingly to the [...]
