Bibles to New Converts in Uganda!

To all my few but faithful readers, I hope you all have had a fine Sunday! It has been a good one here at Coventry Hills.

Around the time we were finishing up gathering Isaya Bwile's needed school funds, Richard Olwenyi (a old school classmate of mine from the Andrew Connally School of Preaching) asked if we might help him out in procuring funds for bibles for the new converts in his area. He preaches for a small but growing congregation.

You know me, I'm all about books and education, so I said we'd see what we could do. The Lord blessed our efforts! Enough money was raised to buy 105 bibles! I thought that number would be 107, but Richard had to use a little bit of the money in order to travel some 4 hours there and back to buy them.

You know how you stress out about doing something you've never done before and you realize, "Boy, that was easy. Why in the world did I spend so much time worrying." That's what I did when it came to sending the money via Western Union. What if it got lost, or I did something wrong and Richard couldn't get the money? But it all went so smooth. Richard got the money Friday and traveled to the Bible House there in his part of Uganda.

And since Uganda is 8 hours ahead of us, the saints at Genguluho Church of Christ had already met for worship and I received these pictures of many of them getting a bible this afternoon. They say "Thank you so much for the wealth of the bibles!" Sorry about the layout of the pictures, blogger is not my friend today. God bless and have a great week!

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