Lomilo Prayer Requests:

March 2024:

1 Pray for Waffle as he mentors the pastors. Pray that he can teach in an easily understandable way, that can be practically applied to their lives.

2. Waffle would like to take an on-line Bible course with some of his proteges. Pray that they can find a way to connect well on the internet and dive deeper into God's Word together..

3. Pray for our Tractor to endure! It has taken quite a beating, knocking logs and stumps and boulders, breaking bolts and punturing tires. One tire had 10 punctures in it before we could get it fixed!

 

January 2024. Pray for this new year with CLIDE. Pray for joy and peace to be manifest. Pray for good cross-cultural communications and teamwork.

December 2023. It's Waffle's birthday this month! Pray for his health and strength to meet the challenges here. We need to take the Land Crusier to have the 4WD repaired. We have tried many places in Uganda, and spent plenty of money, only to have it break again in a short time. We need to get the Kenyan experts on it, so we plan a 2 week Kenyan trip after Christmas. Pray that we an find a good mechanic to get us back on those rough roads again!

November 2023. It's a busy month for veterinarians! We have a wonderful group of international veterinarians joining us for ministry up in the forests of Mt. Elgon. We will do vet outreaches and share the gospel in the villages. There will be vets from Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania joining our Uganda vets and vet studetns, with Val. Val loves to teach the vet students, so it's going to be a great time together. Please pray for everything to go smoothly and safely.

October 2023.

1. Lots of CLIDE Team meetings this month. Pray for good communications and leading of the Holy Spirit for inspiration and guidance for our ministries and relationships.

2. Val is also going on a well needed Women's Spiritual Retreat in South Africa. Pray for rest and relaxation and good fellowship with the other missionary ladies.

3. We will also have a CLIDE retreat this month. Pray for good Bible teaching and some fun actiities together.

Sept. 2023. Pray for our Celebrate Recovery treaining (a Christian 12 step program to help people become free of addictions.). We keep postponing it due to various major challenges. It feels like a spiritual battle aimed at keeping our Karamojong people trapped in their addictions.

August 2023. We have some wonderful visitors coming from Northside Community Church in Albany, Oregon. We look forward to doing some construction with them, as well as holding a Spiritual Retreat for our Non-Timothy/Scholarship students. It's going to be a blast working with them and sharing our hearts and lives together. Pray for the students, that the retreat will be one of fun and joy, together with deepening of their spiritual walk. 

June - July 2023. Val is going to be in the USA during this time. She missed going on furlough last year, due to the Karamoja famine. She really needs some quality time with family and friends, and looks forward to visiting all of the churches, if possible. Pray for rest and recovery from all the stresses and strains that are going on.  Pray for Waffle, who will be "Home Alone"! 

May 2023. Pray for the Tepeth people, who live up on the mountains all around Karamoja. Their language has never been written, so they have no Bible to read. We have an ECD (nursery school) in their communities, where we are trying to teach the children their own language. Now, Wycliffe has contacted us and would like to work with us to translate an oral Bible, as well as the Jesus film! that will be so amazing!! Pray that we can coordinate things well and that the communities will unite behind this ministry.

April 2023. Pray for unity and teamwork for the CLIDE team. There are many stresses coming up and we long for good communications, improved cross-cultural understanding and building up of one another in our fellowships. Pray for the young children who are going through famine right now. Pray that we can get enough food to feed them, as well as have times of Bible study and prayer to encourage them.

March 2023. Pray for our visitors from Good Shepherd Community Church. We are realy looking forward to some fellowship with them and some good adventures! Pray for the churches and women that we are plowing for. Pray that their crops grow well and bring a good harvest, that will bring praise to the Lord!

February 2023. Waffle is back,with a Tractor!!! "Kubota" is now a new word in Karamojong! He has purchased the implements and will begin plowing soon, to get the ground ready for the upcoming rains! We also have seeds for the families to plant: sorghum, maize, beans and black eyed peas.

January 2023. Famine is getting worse here. The dry season is extreme and the drought withers away any wild herbs that the people may have been able to collect. We pray that the rains can come well in March and bring life back to these villages.

December 2022. Pray for Waffle's travels back to Uganda from the USA. he had a good, but short, furlough and was able to see many of our friends and family members. Unfortunately, Val wasn't able to come. Please pray for her. She misses everyone and is having many challenges.

Also pray for the CLIDE Team. There is division coming up on the team and spiritual warfare that is weakening our Team Unity. Please pray for understanding, grace and harmony.

November 2022. We have 4 new Baptist churches in Moroto District that we are helping with famine relief, both for the older people as well as feeding the children. Please pray for us to set up the feeding centers in a good way, so that they bring both nutritous food to the children as well as spiritual guidance and love.

Pray for Val. She has an ongoing recurrent fever, usually in the eveneings. It goes away after a short time, but brings weakness and lack of energy. It may be the so-called "Long COVID"? 

October 2022. Val is busy working on her citizenship documents in Uganda, but it is being complicated by various government offices, which seem to be corrupt. Please pray for her to break through these blockages and find someone in these offices that will be helpful, kind and actively pursue the documents that we need to obtain.

September 2022. Waffle is flying to the USA, without Val!!! We had thought that Val would go first, then Waffle would follow, but it looks like Val is going to delay. She is busy working on getting the famine relief set  up well, as well as doing her citizenship paperwork. Please pray for both of us, as being apart can be challenging.  THe famine minstry is also overwelming at times. Pray for strength, wisdom, perseverance and enduring love for these suffering people.

August 2022. Things are getting tough out here in the villages. Following a very bad harvest this year (drought and army worms) and a hightened insecurity in the villages, very few families were able to cultivate the land to get food for their families. Please pray for the people to be able to endure until we can get emergency food rations to them. The children are the ones suffering the most, due to malnutrition.

June 2022. We hope to be able to come on furlough soon! We really miss everyone. This COVID season of separation has really been a tough one all around. Please pray that we can complete all of the things that we need to do before we travel to the states. Hope to see you soon!

April 2022. We have been at the Police station for much of this month. We have 2 issues: one is the land that we bought 7 years ago. the original owners have contiinuously refused to allow us to mark the borders, and have been leasing out our land to various people each year, while chasing us away with machetes or fire. Secondly, the huts and other structures that we have built on that land continue to be vandalized and burgled. We are pursuing 5 people that have conspired to commit burglary of items worth over $10,000. The police are following several leads and hope to capture them this month.

March 2022. This is looking like a Malaria month. Both Waffle and I have remnants of COVID for the second time, as well as malaria... Praying for strength to return soon and a good recovery. Our COVID symptoms are still relatively mild, praise God! Please be praying for the security here. THe gold mining villages have exploded with violence after 3 geologists were killed in the bush a few kilometers from one of our new village churches (Naput). People are fleeing the area and seeking safety in the larger towns.

February 2022. Our new Christian ECD (Early Childhood Development) centers, or Nursery schools, are really coming up well! We have some wonderful visitors who have helped us in the training and construction of the schools/churches. About 100 children have enrolled so far.

January 2022. Waffle and I both have COVID-19 now. Fortunately we have mild cases. It must be the Omicron variant. Please pray for our quick recovery. We have mostly upper respiratory signs, cough, with body aches, fever/chills and headache.

December 2021. Christmas in Kapchorwa! Pray for our time with Val's "African Family", and for some time to rest and relax on the cool mountain. Pray for our pastors-in - training as we take them for a Christian Conference on the mountain. Pray for their spiritual walk and their leadership development.

November 2021. Val has a 6 day ministry outreach with a group of international veterinarians to the Maasai in Kenya. She will be helping to mentor the new vets and share the gospel with the herdsmen and women in the kraals. Pray for her travels there and for the people to be receptive to the Gospel. :)

October 2021. CLIDE team meetings this month. Pray for our planning and for our unified vision for how the Lord could work in and through us this quarter.

September 2021

Armed warfare is still incresing, with frequent (weekly) gunfire i the villages around us. Several community members have been killed while trying to defend their homes. A Ugandan officer was shot down as well. I removed a bullet from a friendly-fire injured cow today.  Pray for peace and security to return.

August 2021

I'm headed back to Uganda! It will be good to be with everyone there again. Please pray for Waffle. He has had a very bad anaphylactic reaction to bee stings. He called me in the midst of gasping for breath, looking for the epinephrine injection in the hut. Fortunately, they were able to get medicines in time, and I was able to be with him on the phone as they gave the medicines. Play for a full recovery and no more allergic incidents.

July 2021

Please pray for me, Val. It has been a bit rough in Uganda over the last several months and it has effected me psychologically. The warfare, suffering and death, the debilitating effects of the COVID shutdown on the people, and various sicknesses for Waffle and I, have all been draining. Pray for a good rest and time for me to be with God during my break in the USA. Thanks!

June 2021

Please pray for Val's family during our time together. We will have a remembrance for my brother-in-law, Tom Struzzierri, as well as a wedding for his daughter, Christie. Please pray for my sister, Michele as she goes through all of these transitions, trusting in the Lord with her heart.

Also pray for the security situation here in Karamoja. We hear machine gunfire from our hut several times in a week, and the innocent people have no guns to protect themselves any longer.

 

May 2021

Val will be coming to the states briefly to be with family. Our sister, Michele's, husband has passed away from COVID-19 and we will be gathering together to commemorate his life. I will meet my family in Virginia after a 2 week quarantine in a 200 yr old log cabin! Please pray for us all as we gather and spend time together.

After Virginia, I hope to travel to Oregon for a short visit and break time. I hope to see many of you, although my time will be very short. Please pray for travel to work out well and for the COVID restrictions to be reasonable!

 

April 2021

We have had another very bad raid on the Nakabaat mining village. The people have all run from their homes and have abandoned their mines and gold panning sites. The raiders have taken over and are not planning to leave, and the Ugandan miliatry and police are not going to be able to clear them out. Please pray for us to get a mining license for the people, so that the army and police will come back in and remove the marauders from the village.

 

March 2021

Pray for our 6 little fledgling churches that are coming up. With the COVID-19 lockdowns coming ang going, we can not reach them or meet with them at times. Pray that they will stay strong and that the Holy Spirit will guide them in His word when we are not able to get there.

 

January 2021

Please pray against CORRUPTION!  It is election time in Uganda. We hope for free and fair elections, but the process is really stacked to benefit the corrupt and powerful. Pray that God would put the people that He wants us to have for the President, Parliment members and Local Councils. Pray that it does not get violent and that election officials have good accountability and integrity.

The internet is down and will continue to be down over the election period, by decree from the party in power. Please pray for us as we will have limited communications for at least a month or more.

 

December 2020

Christmas time with our new village churches should be very fun! We are planning re-enactments of the Christmas story, together with a big feast in each of the 6 churches. Waffle is donating some of our Ducks for the Christmas meal, and we are also going to roast a goat or two. The ducks have multiplied amazingly, with at least 60 of them quacking around here now! it has been an easy ministry to help pastors and poor families with food or breeding trios. Please pray that the Christmas church services would be impactful, and that our duck flock would continue to bless people!

There is a dilapidated adult learning center in one of the communities where we have a group of new believers, meeting under a tree for church. The community would like to give us this building to be restored to be used for the church. Please pray that the government officials will come beside us and help to make that possible, and not obstruct, ignore or demand bribes for the building. Waffle would like to rejuvenate it and give it another life!

We have a nice end of year get together with CLIDE members. It has been a slow year in some respects, due to COVID-19, but we really praise God that we are all healthy and progressing well through this season of unknowns. Please pray for our health and for our ministries to continue even when in lockdown or in isolation. Please pray for the extra donors that have come in at this time to help us work to prevent the spread of Corona, to help those effected by COVID lockdowns, and to spread the gospel to new communities during this time. God is really using you all!

October 2020

1. WOW!! Spiritual seeds have been planted We now have our 6th new church! The raiders who attacked Nakabaat mining village a few months ago are from Turkana, mixed with some from Matheniko. The Turkana have many cows and many guns and are related to the Karamojaong. We have been seeing them in Nakabaat, and they hang out around the edges of our church gatherings when we come to pray with the gold miners in Nakabaat. A couple weeks ago, I invited them to come sit with us and pray. They invited us to their village, and are now ready to begin a new church! We went there one time so far, and had 75 adults in attendance! They danced and sang songs with us, and listened to our Bible stories, earnestly answering the spiritual application questions. Pray for salvation and commitment from these new sprouts.

2. Our Farm Africa trainings are going well. We will finish up with Goat Fattening shorlty, then conclude our Leather Making and Milk Product trainings after that. Pray that God would build relationships with the local people through these trainings and connect us with them in a deeper way if He desires us to pursue their relationships. 

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Gunfire excalating in Kangole. Raiders near CLIDE office. One dead villager, another one shot and hiding overnight at the tree near our office. We try to stay  in our hut as much as possible after dark, as armed raiders can be heard prowling around the community, breaking into people's homes. Please pray for our safety and the safety of the church leaders and community here.

Waffle's Mom has been bed ridden for several years, with an autoimmune disorder. We were hoping to be coming on furlough to visit her shortly, but COVID-19 has kept us locked in Uganda. Unfortunately, she has now passed away at her home in Colorado. Waffle's sister, Leigh and her husband Bill, have been taking excelletn care of her, but the disease continued to bring her down. We will all miss her so much.

We have recieved a grant from an organisation called Farm Africa. We will be teaching women in 42 community groups about 3 different Value-Added businesses: Goat rearing, Leather tanning, and Milk product development. We are excited to work wiith new communities and people and know that the Lord witl open up unique opportunities to share His love, hope and message. Pray for our trainings to be inspirational and encouraging for the ladies.

Mentoring Church Planters

Our PPBB Project:  Pastors, Prostitutes and BodaBodas. COVID-19 lockdown is destroying the livelihoods of the poor. Those in povery have very little resilience when changes happen in their lives. they have no bank accounts, savings, stored food or even possessions that they can sell to buy food during the lockdown. They live day-to-day, getting just enough to survive till the next one. When movements are restricted and markets are shut down, they have no where to get food or money. We researched to see which groups were the most badly hit, and discovered that defiinitely Pastor and motorcyle taxi drivers were seriously disenfranchised through the Lock down. We started buying seeds for them to plant, so that they would have food for their family growing in their back yards. Then we heard of antoher group that was practically going out of business.... the Prostitutes! With social distancing being mandatory and effectively preventing the spread of Corona, no one was participating in their business! We decided that this may be the ideal time to help these prostitutes leave their profession and begin another more reliable, safe and wholesome job. We started with providing food for them, developing relationships, and hope to help them begin other businesses sometime next year. Please pray for our Prostitutes, Pastors and Bodoboda taxi drivers to make it thorugh the COVID lockdown and to see the loving hand of God in their lives during this time.

Raiders attack Nakabaat and the whole village flees in TERROR! We rescued them after they ran through the bush in the night.

 

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May 2020

1. God is doing alot in our new churches. Although we cannot officially meet with them in church services, we travel to see them and discuss COVID-19 issues, share a few Bible Stories and help them with COVID-related challenges in their villages. We are helping provide food to those who have little during this Corona Shutdown, especially pastors. We also provide seeds for them to plant in their gardens, since they may not get an income for a significant time.

2. We have alot of new people interested in the gospel, from several gold mining villages. I went there to help with the COVID 19 situation, and to do training and sensitization, but found many people hungry for God and for His power in their lives. Pray for wisdom in how to approach this situation.

April 2020

1. Pray! Corona has come to Uganda! Airports are closed, people from overseas are evacuating. We have decided to stay here through the pandemic, to help with the challenges that people are going to face. God is with us. All traffic is shut down, all planes grounded, all people told to stay at home and not gather together. 7pm curfew every night.

2. Pray for our Corona Task Force: Moroto District. I (Val) joined them and I and my evangelists are busy training communities on the disease: social distancing, hand washing, isolation, quarantine, etc. We are helping to prevent cross-border spread from Kenya, where many more cases have been seen. The Task Force has set up a quarantine station at one of the schools and we are busy getting it ready for potential suspects, especially truck driveres from Kenya. Pray that God will open doors through these evangelists during our village meetings.

3. Pray as I (Val) buy and supply food to those who cannot work and get any income during this time. Pastors are the most effected, but older people are also suffering alot. 

4. Pray for Waffle. He is still at the construction site, 4 hours drive away from me. His USA construction team has gone, but he is in lockdown there with 12 young men, continuing the construction. They have been camping in tents, since December.

 

March 2020

1. Pray for our sponsored students (173 of them!) Twenty-six are entering community college this year, and we are so proud of them! Many want to do into medical professions, serving God through their profession. We are going to have 12 nurses, 4 midwives, 4 pharmacists, and 1 in medical record keeping!

2. Pray for Uganda during this COVID-19 pandemic. They are still deciding how to respond, with no cases reported in Uganda yet.

3. Pray for our new little churches on Mt. Moroto. They are facing some persecution from the community and from the witchdoctors. Some witchdoctors aretrying to curse the church members and bring sickness and accidents.

 

February 2020

1. Locust swarms are coming to Uganda! Pray that they will pass over and not devastate the crops and the trees of the people. Pray that they leave the pasture grasses for cattle so that they can have feed during the dry season. Also pray that the rsponse of the

2. Continue to pray for our construction projects on our land. Waffle has a great team from Suburban church in Corvallis. They are working on his shop and a second hut. Eventually we will be building a Leadership Training Center on this land, for church leaders' training, discipleship and missionary mentoring, livestock and agricultural training, herbal medicine training, and peace and reconciliation. 

January 2020

1. Pray for our  vet short term team that is here with us. They are an amazing group, with both talent and personality!! We love them and praise God for their adaptability and hard work.

2. Pray for our new churches up on Mt. Moroto. Nakiloro church is on the foothills. We have PastorGrace who is planning to begin living there to help us minister to the people and mentor the new believers. Kakingol church is up the escarpment. We ususally need to put our Landy into 4WD to get up the rocky curves and rough ditches. We have a group of 3 young men and one young lady who are really growing there. Pastor Moses Lochap is helping us to mentor them. He loves to go out hut to hut with these guys and pray for people.

3.Pray for Lydia Anderson, our intern from Baker City. She will be staying behind after the other vet short term team members return to the USA. She is an amazing young lady, with many talents and a heart to serve and care.  She will be with us for 1 more month.

December 2019

1. Pray for Val's snake bite on her ankle. It looks to be a medium sized viper bite. The swelling is going down now, but the tissues are beginning to necrose and deteriorate a little at the bite site. Pray for no loss of function to my left ankle. 

2. Pray for Waffle's health. He has been sick off and on for some time. He has had some tough virus, as well as a consistant cough, as well as various allergic reactions. 

3. Pray for our Land Rover! Gear box challenges have taken it back to the mechanic, but it looks like it is back and running for now!

4. Pray for the Construction project in Ngenge: for no rain! for good relationships with students and community, for short term team to enjoy themselves and accomplish that which God has for them.

November 2019

1. Pray for upcoming visitors in December/January. We have a construction team coming to help CLIDE with their Moroto Office land as well as helping us with our Ngenge property. Lots of fencing to do, a latrine and maybe some block making.

2. Pray for our vet ministry team that is also coming. They will be doing some small animal (dog n' cat) surgeries as well as helping treat some local livestock on Mt. Moroto. 

3. Pray for our new little churchs in both Nakiloro and Kakingol. They are doing well, but facing challenges, persecution and witchcraft against them. 

October 2019

1. We would like to do some additional leadership training for our new believers from Nakiloro. They are a great group to work with! They have even started to collect building materials for their church. We praise God for the Holy Spirit working in their lives!

2. We are beginning the planning and organizing for our winter short term minstry groups. Pray for good coordination in the villages, as well as with the US Teams. Pray for God to prepare the hearts of those that will interact with them, for His kingdom purposes.

3. Waffle will be conducting a VBS (Vacation Bible School) for the MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) missionary kids and youth. Pray for fun, energetic, adventurous learning activiites for the kids. Pray that the kids will have receptive hearts to what God is speaking to them through this time, as they look to their future ministries and lives.

4. This month, the Nakayot Peace Village Health Center is supposed to open, but they have delayed due to lack of water in the community. The 3 boreholes are all broken, and people are drinking and cooking using water from muddy puddles. Pray that we can get some borehole mechanics that can determine the problems so that the people no longer suffer like this, and the Clinic can open.

 

September 2019

1. We would like to go to Kenya this month to do some work with the Samburu people: training on camels health and husbandry and visiting the Believers to encourage and mentor them. Pray for our preparations and travel.

2. Pray for our health: for Val to get over her malaria well, and for no parasites to continue to stay in her liver. Waffle still has the Shingles, but they are responding well to an herbal medicine that Val is applying.

3. Pray for our Overnight Prayer in our new little Nakiloro church! We will have 20 hours together praising and praying and worshiping and learning from God's Word! We expect 100 people to show up!

4. Pray for our sick, orphan antelope, Micky Michael. He ate poisonous plants which were quite toxic. He has been seizuring every 15 minutes. We have him on Valium drip, but he keeps ripping out the catheters when he has a seizure. 

 

August 2019

1. Pray for Waffle, he has been sick with flu, then got Shingles afterwards, so he has been hit pretty hard for several weeks. 

2. Pray for our Nakiloro "Revivial" Church! We had an excellent deliverance conference in Moroto, called Karamoja House of Prayer. This was a time to confess to associations with witchcraft and evil spirits, and to pray for freedom from bondage to these spirits. Pray for the 6 Nakiloro members who came forward for deliverance, that Satan and his spirits will now completely leave them in Peace.

 

July 2019

1. We have established a new little church in Nakiloro, which is a village behind Mt. Moroto! God led us to share Christ with the people, through the ministry of E3. Pray for the new believers, who we have just baptized (72 members!)

2. We had a great CLIDE leadership training by OC International. They came up from South Africa to teach us about coaching strategies, and how to help us to be accountable to moving forward in life, setting realistic goals and working towards them. Please pray for each of our CLIDE members, as we open our hearts to God's leading in a deeper and more impactful way. 

 

June 2019

1. Pray for the Land Rover! We have taken it to so many mechanics, and each has made it worse! It started -with a "engine power-washing incident", but has progressed to a multi-faceted mechanical breakdown. It looks like we have to buy a new engine! I don't think we will ever power wash our engines again! We don't have enough funds to do this, so we need prayer for God to bring in resources that are needed. 

2. Val is in the USA this month, for her Mom's memorial in Fossil. Pray for the family and for God to be near to us all at this time. May the memorial be a time of rejoicing in a life well lived for the Lord!

3. Val will be visiting churches in the US while she is there. Pray for good connections and fun with the kids in the Suburban VBS.

 

March 2019

1. Pray for our sponsored children, some of whom are now starting college!! Pray for their studies, as well as additional sponsorships that can contribute to their schooling.

2. Pray for this agricultural season. Unpredictable weather patterns have disrupted the food supply for people here, as most are subsistance farmers. Pray for proper rains, minimal wind, few crop-destroying insects and timely cultivation. Also pray that the CLIDE tractor can be used to its fullest capacity to help the most people.

3. Pray for our future Celebrate Recovery training (it's like a Christian AA program). We have postponed it due to a significant accident that happened to one of our US facilitators. Pray for his full recovery and a renewed opportunity to break the stronghold that alcohol has on our Karamoja and Teso communities.

 

February 2019

1. Kidney stones are finally out!! Praising God for all He has done. The stent will be out shortly, and then Waffle's pain will finally be over! It's be a long 4 months!

2. Second construction team is busy in Nakayot with painting and ministry. They are from Sunset Presbyterian Church in Beaverton. Pray for their ministry and their outreach to the communities.

3. Sunset Prebyterian church is also helping with a Leather Making Training (#2). Please pray for the members to learn well and to be able to apply the things they learn so that they can make leather products as an income generating activity.

 

January 2019

1. Still no surgery, as the surgeon went on holiday and the new, replacement equipment that they ordered has not yet come in. Waffle is enduring!

2. Construction teams are going strong!  The Landy is out with the gang in Ngenge now, with a bunch of our sponsored kids, putting up our hut and latrine. This is land that we hope to one day build a Discipleship and Leadership Training Center. Pray for God's hand on this vision!

3. Sponsored kids are doing well, but need prayers for their next year of studies. Pray for good health, good concentration and cooperation with one another.

 

December 2018

1. Waffle has kidney stones!! They have been very painful, and we need to get a successful surgery! We have tried a couple times in Kampala, but the surgeons were not able to visualize the stones, due to equipment problems and surgical challenges. Please pray that we can get a better opportunity to get these out. Waffle has a stent in to keep his ureter open, so that the stones do not block urine flow from the kidney. The stent has been causing some bleeding and is uncomfortable.

2. Construction team from Suburban Christian and NW Hills in Corvallis is coming soon! They want to help us with building our first hut in Ngenge, on our land where we hope to one day have a Discipleship Training Center.  They will also help with building a pastors house and a church in the Peace Village.

3. Timothy Retreat is this month! We look forward to having the kids around and having some good Bible training times, fun times and counseling for those with childhood traumas. Please pray for these kids!

 

November 2018

1. Please pray for Waffle to heal from his Kidney stone surgeries. He had a very painful kidney stone incident and went in for 2 surgeries. He has a stint in now to help any other stones to be expelled. Pray for his pain level, and for the removal of the stint in a week or so.

2. Pray for our friend Dorie, who was visiting us in Uganda, then traveled to Rwanda. She became very sick in Rwanda and was hospitalized with possible pneumonia and malaria. The treatments in the hospital were not sufficient and she called me (Val) in Uganda and asked me to help evacuate her back to the states. So I flew to Rwanda and then to the US with her, helping with the flights and wheelchairs and travel needs. She is doing better now, back in Portland, but is still weak.

3. Pray for our new vehicle that we are importing. We are having problems with the paperwork and it may delay past an important deadline, which can cost us more than $10,000! It is a 2014 vehicle and Uganda does not allow easy importation of vehicles that are 5 years old or more, requiring a huge Environmenatl Tax. Please pray that we can get it through the customs process before the end of December.

4. Please continue to pray for our mothers, who are progressively declining in health and strength.

5. Pray for the 4 day Timothy Children Spiritual Retreat in mid-December. We will be bringing about 100 of our sponsored children together for fun, Bible lessons, counseling, health check ups, and times to relax and enjoy one another. Pray for spiritual growth for each of them, that they would sense the presence of God in their lives and seek to follow Him.

 

October 2018

1. Please pray for the amazing opportunities we have for visiitors to come help us with special trainings over the next few months. Pray for their travels, for their planning and for the teaching opportunities. Pray for the villagers, pastors and CLIDE staff who will be participating in the trainings, that they will gain knowledge and insights that can impact their lives.  THANKS!

2. Pray for the safe delivery of our "New" 2014 Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-up. It has 7 weeks of travel to get to us from Dubai, UAE. Pray for it as it travels on the seas on a big container ship from Dubai, as it passes through the Persian Gulf and along the Somali coastline (no Pirates please!) up to the port at Mombasa, Kenya. It then goes through customs and is transfered to a truck that will carry it to Uganda, up to the capital, Kampala. We will meet it there at the customs warehouse and pay the various taxes and customs duty. We don't yet have enough money for the customs taxes, but are moving by faith. Please pray for God's hand to work on this! Thanks!

3. We praise God for Val's good visit with her Mom in the states. They shared some good smiles, stories and songs together, and God was there. Thanks for praying!

4. Prayer for healing for our Celebrate Recovery member who was in a boat accident coming from Alaska. He swallowed alot of water and had to go on dialysis for some time. He is recovering now. We have postponed the Celebrate Recovery training till next year sometime and look forward to seeing God's grace bring him here to Uganda!

 

September 2018

1. Pray for our Celebrate Recovery training for equipping recovering alcoholics with tools to help them set up Alcoholic recovery groups in the villages. We have 3 US trainers coming Sept 6th - 17th.

2. Pray for Val's Mom. She has been deteriorating over the last several weeks, getting weaker and and less interactive. Val's brother Jerry is overseeing her care and is working with the doctors to make sure her medications and care are going well. Val may go and visit her in the USA at the end of September.

3. Pray for the purchasing of our new vehicle! We had several that we were looking at, but now the government has introduced a new tax called the "Environmental Tax" on all vehicles. It can amount to as much as $15,000 per vehicle (US Dollars!). We are trying to decide if we should try to raise more money, or buy an older vehicle, so that the taxes are lower.

4. Pray for next month's trainings and visitors:

• Leather training in the Peace villages
• Discipleship training in Oral Storying

 

August 2018

1. Pray for the upcoming Celebrate Recovery training in September. We are meeting with potential "Champions" or Group Leaders this month and connecting them to the CR USA members.

2. Pray for our sponsored students in Daniel Comboni Secondary School. There was a riot in the school after the school administration made some changes in the programs. The school has now closed down for the term, awaiting restitution from the students for the damage the school experienced from the riots. The students may miss this term in school as a result of the closing.

3. Pray for us to make a good choice for purchase of our Land Cruiser double cabin. We are looking at diesel, 2014 to 2017 models. Used vehicles can be challenging, but we have some good options that are coming up.

4. Pray for Waffle's flu. He has been sick for a few weeks and is just getting strong again.

 

July 2018

1. Pray for the planning for our visiting groups this fall: Celebrate Recovery in Sept., Discipleship Storying in October, Peace Celebration Nov., Marriage Conference Nov.

2. Praise for the great time we had in outreach to the Kakwa people of S. Sudan. We went with E3 ministry friends and visited the refugee camps where they are staying in N. Uganda. Over 200 got saved during our few days there!

3. Praise God for the funds that have been contributed for the purchase of another ministry vehicle!! We are excited to be looking at the choices available and hope to purchase it with in a month or so.

4. Pray for our sponsored students (150) in their various schools. Pray that they will study hard and continue to learn to trust in Christ, and live a life worthy of their calling. 

5. Pray for Waffle's health. He has had several bouts of flu-like symptoms as well as a new kidney stone flare-up. 

June 2018

1. Pray for the CLIDE Team Meeting this month. We are doing strategic annual planning and budgeting and need the Lord's guidance to see His will for our ministries.

2. Pray for a visit from a One Challenge leader this month. One Challenge (OC) is the mission organisation that is now overseeing CLIDE. They are based in the US, but have administrative staff in South Africa that can come visit CLIDE and get to see and assess our ministries.

3. Pray for Waffle's aquaponics project. He is getting the tanks and growing beds set up now. Lots of logistical challenges with flooding, rusting, and design challenges.

4. Praise God for a full recovery of our sweet Sproodle pup, Black Mamba, who ate a sick rat and also became sick. She is now frollicking around again!

5. Pray for our outreach to the Kakwa people of S. Sudan. They are in a refugee camp in N. Uganda, fleeing from tribal warfare and genocide in their home villages.

 

May 2018

1. Pray for our sponsored students who are busy doing Work-Study with us this month. they are on their spring break and need to make some extra income. We are doing tree re-location, aquaponics, painting our huts, the church and pastor's house and sorting 30 bags of sorghum from our last year's harvest.

2. Pray for our Child Sponsors who really sacrifice to contribute to helping these kids. These are the top students in their classes, and would need to drop out if we did not have these sponsors to rescue them. Praise God for their willingness, mercy and loving-kindness.

3. Pray for our pet Ostrich, Orville, who contracted a clostridial infection. His siblings have died, but he is starting to recover.

4. Pray for our pet Monitor Lizard, Seamore, who we got from the wild when he was quite emaciated. We are busy catching rats for him to eat!

 

April 2018

1. Praising God for the great visits that Dr. Moses and Christine had with everyone in the USA! They had wonderful visits with our supporting churches and some fun too! They enjoyed the Pacific Ocean and got to taste the salty water, and even had a trip up to Seattle area for Celebrate Recovery training.

2. Pray for Val's medical visits this month, her spiritual retreat and her visits with friends.

3. Praise God that Val and Waffle will be back together again at the end of the month!

4. Pray for fund raising for purchase of another ministry vehicle.

 

March 2018

1. Pray for Val, Moses and Christine in all of their travels and relationship building in the US. They have 42 appointments with various friends and supporting churches this month!

2. Pray for Waffle who stayed in Uganda with the construction teams. He's a bit lonely out there in the bush!

3. Pray for Val's medical appointments and good healing following her horseback incident! She is improving little by little, but the post-surgical nerve damage in her arm and hand is persisting.

 

February 2018

1. Pray for the 2 construction teams: Sunset Presbyterian team is working on the Nakayot Health Clinic and the Nakayot Nurse's Quarters.  The Suburban Christian team is working on the Nakayot School Kitchen, the Nabwal Church and the Nabwal Pastor's house.

2. Pray for our Veterinary ministry with Dr. Liz Hoffman. She brings her expertise in small animal medicine and surgery to help our people with their pets, as well as working on some cows and goats on the side! We have had a rabies outbreak in the region, so pray that many will come to get their dogs and cats vaccinated!

3. Pray for Dr. Val, Dr. Moses and Christine, who will be traveling to the USA for fund raising and to visit the churches. CLIDE's ministries are growing very well and we would like them to have a more direct relationship with our churches in the USA.

 

January 2018

1. Praising God that we are back with our People in Uganda again! And we were able to bring our sweet puppy, Tala, aka "Black Mamba", a Sproodle (Springer Spaniel/Poodle)

2. Prayer for our poultry and livestock. During the famine in Karamoja, the animals could not get enough food and many of them died, especially ducks, chickens and some goats. Pray for them to be strengthened again.

3. Pray for Construction planning for the 2 groups who are coming to build in the Peace Villages.

4. Praise God for Joel Schmidt, who came to work with Waffle on construction and has been a huge blessing to all of us!

5. Pray for the New Year, for the multitude of CLIDE ministries! (Child sponsorship, Peace, Herbal medicines, Agriculture, and Discipleship)

 

December 2017

1. Praise that Val is recovering from her horse accident and will get her external fixation device off this month and we finish up on her physical and occupational therapy.

2. We will be traveling back to Uganda on 28th of December!! Pray for good travels, especially with Val's difficulty in moving. 

3. We will be speaking at the Bend Seventh Day Adventist Church on Dec. 16th. Please pray for new relationships and for God to inspire our SDA friends through our sharing.

4. Christmas with Val's family! We will be staying with Val's sister in Sisters and hope for a little snow before we head back to Africs for 2-3 more years.

November 2017

1. We unexpectantly have had to remain in the USA after Val fell off of her horse. She broke her pelvis in 3 places, her rib, and her humerus. Please pray for complete healing.

2. Pray for the CLIDE team as they continue all of our ministries without us while we have our various surgeries and hospital visits over the next 2 months.

3. Pray for new friendships we are making at the hospital and with friends of our friends who have been stopping by to visit. We have wonderful flowers, chocolates and cards everywhere!

 

October 2017

1. We are really looking forward to our return to Uganda! Pray for uncomplicated, restful travels.

2. Pray for our upcoming ministry in Kapchorwa. We will be doing Evangelism, discipleship and church planting with John and Janelle from E3 Ministries. This is a great chance for us to be trained in church planting and to have time with friends in Kapchorwa.

3. Presentation at Cascade Park Baptist Oct. 8th.

4. Presentation at Corvallis First Baptist Oct. 1st.

5. Commissioning at NW Hills Community Church in Corvallis 15th Oct. 

6. Presentation in Baker City, Oregon 22nd Oct.

 

September 2017

1. Pray for our trip to Colorado to see Waffle's mom, sister and family. Waffle's mom has heen having multiple health issues and may need to begin thinking about assisted living or a nursing care facility.

2. Sept. 17th Speaking at Prime movers, Good Shepherd Comm. Church in Boring.

3. Sept. 24th Speaking at Suburban Christian Church in Corvallis.

4. We're going fishing! Pray for good success both on te ocean and Columbia River.

5. We are planning a Celebrate Recovery ministry in Uganda and are organizing the teams to go out to do the training and mentoring.

6. We are planning a Marriage Counseling ministry in Uganda next year and need prayer for developing the curriculum and strategies.

 

August 2017

1. Waffle is participating in an Outdoor Club for abused children. He will be the "Fisherman in Residence". Pray for times to mentor the kids and for God's healing hand on their young lives.

2. Men's Prayer Breakfast in Tillamook.

3. Waffle goes to California to conduct a wedding for a couple that he mentored for many years.

4. Barbecue with frinds in Corvallis. Pray for God's inspiration and the joy of the spirit in this fellowship.

5. Eclipse in Fossil with friends and family. Pray for reconnections with Fossil friends. Pray for time of sharing at the Fossil United Methodist Church.

6. Alaska Road Trip for Val with Lorelle. Pray for safety, fun, good weather and hiking opportunities on the way.

7. CAT Meeting. CLIDE Advisory Team meeting. Pray for wisdom for these leaders and for good participation, harmony and good communications for ministry planning and visioning time together.

8. Waffle will go to see his Mom at the end of the month. Pray for her health and well-being. Pray that she will sense God's presence and love in her life.

 

July 2017

1. Waffle has a short term mission in Peru: Caballa Cocha. He will be doing Evangelism/Discipleship and Church planting. Pray for good connections with the people and that his Spanish will kick in well!

2. Val is going to Texas for a Global Forum/Conference of Church Planters. Pray for God to lead her to people who can mentor them and work with them in Uganda.

3. Speaking at Dayton First Baptist and Paso Robles in California. Pray for God to give us the words and encouragements that each body needs.

4. Val is going on a road trip to Texas with her sisters! (and neice, Erin).  Pray for good travels, fun times and family time together.

5. Celebrate Recovery (Alcohol Addiction Recovery Program) short term mission planning time. Pray for God to lead the right people to come to Uganda and help break the bonds of alcoholism in the lives of the tribal communities.

6. Vacation Bible School in Tillamook! Pray for the kids to enjoy their time, and to be challenged spiritually and emotionally, connecting with each other and the Lord.

 

June 2017

1. Speaking opportunities.  We will be speaking at Good Shepherd missions conference in Boring this month and several Bible study groups. Pray for inspiration and the Spirit to work through us. Pray that we will encourage other in their walk with the Lord.

2. Adventure times!  Waffle will be helping with a Boys Scout camp and a church camp. Pray for fun and spiritual sparks to ignite.

3. CLIDE transition. Pray for a smooth success in CLIDE's transition from CVM to New Horizons. Pray for good opportunities for them to grow into their leadership positions and have wisdom in ministering to the communities.

 

May 2017

1. Church visits. We are in the US and would love to visit all of our churches and friends. Pray that we can organize well and meet and have some meaningful interactions with everyone.

2. Family time. Our moms are not doing so well. Pray for joyful times together and intentional conversations that can draw us all closer to the Lord.

3. Friends time! We want to see our good friends, be revitalized and have some fun and relaxation together. Pray that we can coordinate well and make the efforts necessary to slow down and enjoy one another.

 

April 2017

1. Easter celebrations in Kangole mean 40 new believers will be baptized! Pray for thier new growing spiritual life!

2. Waffle preached in the IDP (Internally Displaced People) Baptist Church this month. Pray for his message to go deep into the hearts of the former refugees and to touch thier lives transformationally, bringing hope and courage.

3. We will be traveling to the US shortly! Pray for our finishing up well here in Uganda, and good preparations for CLIDE ministries during our 6 month furlough in the US.

 

March 2017

1.Pray for the people suffering in the current drought. People have tried planting crops this year and each time, they dry up and whither. The weather is very unpredictable and hunger is beginning.

2. Pray for our furlough coming up at the end of April. We will be in the states for about 6 months, mostly in Oregon, but some in Colorado and California. Pray for good travels, good times of visiting with everyone, and great times of sharing what the Lord has been doing in and through us here in Uganda.

3. Pray that the Lord leads us to a good, new organisation to work with. We have narrowed it doen to 6 good options, and have had many people come in with good advise and information for us. We hope to decide in the next 2 months.

4. Pray for the people of Karamoja, as there is a significant drought here, with alot of hunger as a result.  Several dozen people have died, reportedly from starvation. It is a tough time, and we would like to help somehow. Pray for wisdom in how we can respond.

 February 2017

1. Pray for our Timothy sponsored children. They are all returning back to school this month for another year. Many of them are orphans and most of them come from impoverished families who could not afford to send them to school. They have rough histories and have experienced alot of trauma in their lives. Pray for them to trust the Lord as they study and stabilize thier lives.

2. Pray for our construction projects to glorify God and for the communities to come beside us as we construct buildings for the Peace Village school and CLIDE office.

 

January 2017

1. Pray for our visitors this month and next!! We have several teams coming to help us in ministry, and we are excited for the chance to show them where we stay and introduce them to our CLIDE team and our friends in the villages.

2. Pray for the new believers who were baptized over the Christmas and New Years season. There were over 80 that have started their new life in Christ and will need some mentoring and guidance to live a life worthy of the calling that they have recieved.

 

December 2016

1. Waffle and I will be resigning from Christian Veterinary Mission at the end of this year. We have had some challenges over the last 3 years, so this will be the best way forward. Pray for a smooth transition to a new organisation.

2. Praising God for Waffle's good health report. There are no signs of any thyroid cancer any longer, and he will not have to come for annual checkups for it any more!

 

June 2016

1. Pray for our relationship with a former CLIDE staff member. She is not doing well and we are concerned for her.

2. Pray for God's hand of love to be extended towards the people who are suffering from drought and famine. This year has been quite bad, and the harvest does not look very promising.

 

 

January 2016

1. Pray for spiritual breakthroughs in the lives of our discipleship leaders. Several are facing spiritual battles related to their past. Some were warriors, others were alcoholics, others were practicing witchcraft.

2. Pray for God's hand to work in the communities where we live. There has been recent thefts and armed break-ins at people's homes. 

3. Pray for good health for Waffle. He's had some MSG toxic responses and some flu.

4. Pray for both Waffle's Mom and Val's Mom. they are both having health challenges. Val's Mom has been in an assisted living site, but has transitioned to a place with more care, now that she is not able to get around on her own.

 

 

January 2015

1. There are many team challenges that we face and would love prayer for team harmony and a unified team spirit.

2. We will be having an important information session with our supporting churches at Mission Connexion in Beaverton, Oregon (Sunset Presbyterian Church). We look forward to sharing our vision with our churches and getting them more involved with us both in prayer and in ministry.

3. We will be visiting our mission agency, Christian Veterinary Mission in Seattle. Please pray for good communications and synergy.  Both Waffle and I expect our ministries to be changing this next term and hope to share our visions with the CVM staff.

 

29th December 2014

1.  Waffle had hyperthyroidism and needed to have his thyroid removed.  Histopathology revealed that he had 2 types of cancer in the thyroid, and one of them had extended up to the margin of the thyroid capsule, meaning that some cancer cells probably are still in his body.  Please pray for him to be able to get a good treatment regime of Radioactive Iodine.

2. We would love to be back in Uganda as soon as possible. We miss everyone so much and long to be doing ministry together with them.  There have been some teamwork issues as well that we would like to get back to work on, so that the team can run more smoothly.  Please pray for team harmony and a unified vision.

3. We would like to use our time in the US in the best way, to glorify God, encourage others here in the states to spiritual growth, and to equip ourselves for greater ministy in Africa.  Please pray for discernment in time management and spiritual wisdom.