Micah and I made the transition to our new home yesterday. The place is…interesting. I couldn’t begin to describe to you what the place looked like…50 years ago. What was likely once a beautiful mansion in the last days of colonial Uganda is now a building that shows the effects of years of neglect and wear and tear. Micah and I aren’t moving into this new living arrangement for the purpose of investing in a building though. We’re here to invest in the lives of the people who are in spiritual darkness. We’re here to communicate love to the Ugandan people. This is going to be a new adventure for us. As of right now, we have no electricity or water (hoping that both return to the building sometime in the next week). Today, I was working with Tracy, the landlady who is a member of our Jinja town class (Ambassador Institute), to help her get one of her tenants evicted. The man is a pastor whose witness is damaging and whose behavior is terrible. The man hasn’t paid rent in five months (and it is not because he can’t), he is causing confusion among the other tenants, and he was abusing his control of the only water source in the building. Pray that God would uphold our cause and be the perfect Judge of this wolf in sheep’s clothing. There is a chance that Tracy and I will be meeting with this man yet this evening. Our hope is that he would leave peaceably.
In the coming weeks, I am hoping that Micah and I have meaningful opportunities to get to know the other tenants of the building. There are always many children running around (they made for a great moving-in crew!), and I hope for many opportunities to play with them in the next three months.
I’ve included a slideshow of pictures that show our room in several stages. It’s looking a lot better than it did when we first saw it! I imagine that it will be rather homey within a short amount of time. Micah and I have committed our room to God – to be a place where He is glorified and dwells. We are praying that the souls of the people in the building with us would be ushered into God’s kingdom – that they would live with the hope of someday living in an eternal mansion that Christ himself has prepared (John 14:1-3).
All of these things that I’ve mentioned are things that we’re inviting you to pray for. We covet your prayers because we know God works through them.
Thank you for being such a faithful friend, follower, and encourager. We know that we’re not alone in this mission to which God has called us.
To God be the glory!
Hans
Ugandan Mission 
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