All week I’ve been sharing with you about our visit on Monday to Watoto Child Care Ministries in Uganda. It was such a powerful day for our team, and one of the things that has really gripped my heart is the reality of AIDS in our world. In 20 years, AIDS has gone from being [...]
Archive for September, 2006
First Days . . .
by Sep 7I’m thankful for a super-supportive wife who loves the call on our lives, is committed fully to the call, and releases me to go on trips like the one I’m on right now. I wish she was here with me. But it’s “back-to-school” time at home. Mark had his first day of 5 year-old preschool [...]
Psalm 68:5-6 – “Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless…”
Psalm 113:7-8 – “…and he lifts the poor from the dirt and the needy from the garbage dump. He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people!”
It really is difficult to put [...]
Gary and Marilyn Skinner
by Sep 4Ezekiel 22:30 - “I looked for someone to stand up for me against all this, to repair the defenses of the city, to take a stand for me and stand in the gap to protect this land so I wouldn’t have to destroy it…”
Today was an unbelievable day. It was one of those life-defining days, [...]
Nairobi Lighthouse Church
by Sep 3Today we had the privilege of being in what I think is one of the greatest churches in the world. As I wrote yesterday, for almost 20 years, Nairobi Lighthouse has been making an impact in the city of Nairobi, in their nation Kenya and to the ends of the world. Our church, The Life [...]
