Going to Africa!

Hello to our dear Friends and Family!

Thank you for your faithful prayers for us over the last few weeks. God is providing all that we need! We were given the opportunity to travel to Marion, VA where Mike preached at his home church. We also traveled to Warner Robins, GA where I spoke at a women's mission meeting and Mike spoke at a men's group. Within one week of our last update, we had enough money to purchase our plane tickets to Uganda!

 
We are scheduled to leave for Africa on September 27^th and will be gone for a month. When we return, we would love to share about our trip and our ministry with Helping Hands Foreign Missions. Please contact us if you would like us to share with a group in your area! We will be available in November and December. Then, we are scheduled to go to Bolivia for the month of January and then back to Uganda in February/March.

Below, we have included a general itinerary for our trip, so you can pray more specifically throughout the next month. Please also be in prayer as we still need more committed monthly support to cover our living expenses while we are in the US and doing ministry internationally.


Sept. 27^th – Sept. 28^th 
Mike and Sarah leave on our big adventure! We fly from Atlanta to Amsterdam and meet with Dr. Brenda there. Then we fly to Entebbe and meet up with Pastor Moses. 

Sept. 29^th 
Then the 4 of us will be driving to Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

Sept. 30^th – Oct. 1^st 
Both of us, along with Pastor Moses and Dr. Brenda will be meeting with pastors and church leaders in the Congo to gather information about doing a church plant there. 

Oct. 2^nd 
We will be traveling from Goma, DRC to Kampala, Uganda and meeting the rest of the Helping Hands Staff. 

Oct. 3^rd 
We will travel to Busia, Uganda to prepare for the team's arrival. 

Oct. 3^rd – 7^th 
We will be making preparations for the mission team arriving on October 7^th. Mike and Aaron will be traveling on the 6^th and 7^th to pick up the team in Entebbe and bring them to Busia. 

Oct. 7^th – 15^th 
The mission team will be putting a new roof on a church building, doing a sports camp at four bush schools in nearby villages, doing a medical clinic, leading discipleship groups with our school children, dispersing gifts and needed items to the school children from their U.S. Sponsors, visiting some bush churches to encourage the people there, and doing hut-to-hut evangelism.

Oct. 17^th – 19^th 
We will be going to Kenya to meet with and encourage local pastors and possibly do some Pastor/Church Leader training. 
 
Oct. 18^th 
Our 7^th wedding anniversary! 

Oct. 20^th – 26^th 
We will be wrapping up things in Busia and keeping up with some local contacts. 

Oct. 27^th – 28^th 
We drive to Entebbe and begin our travel home!


 

God bless you!

Mike and Sarah McCord