Stories tagged with: uganda

• Missionaries to Chitwood: 'You're one of us'

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Friday, April 12, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chris Carter/IMB

  ARUA, Uganda (BP) -- Missionary Jeremy Taliaferro remembers "mad-dash googling" on the internet to find out who is Paul Chitwood.

  The International Mission Board's presidential search committee announced their candidate last November. And Taliaferro admitted at first he was a little underwhelmed since the Chitwoods had not served as IMB missionaries. Read More

• Prosperity gospel a problem in Africa, Chitwood says

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Tuesday, April 09, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chris Carter/IMB

  JINJA, UGANDA (BP) -- There's a deacon in Uganda who will gladly pray for church members who pay a few shillings; another preacher says God will bless them with a car or house if they are willing to give him some money. And another preaches John the Baptist was born of a virgin birth.

  These are a few examples International Mission Board missionaries in Uganda and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa have shared on why theological training is so critical. Read More

• IMB's Chitwood encourages refugees, missionaries

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Thursday, April 04, 2019 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chris Carter/IMB

  ARUA, UGANDA (BP) -- With only one arm, Agnes carries a five-gallon jug of water on her head in a refugee camp near the South Sudan border in northern Uganda. On her own, she's a single mom with two children to care for and has to make an hour-long trek to a well because it's the closest one to her house. Read More

• Sheik sent to kill pastor professes faith in Christ

  by Morning Star News/East Africa Correspondent, posted Thursday, January 12, 2017 (5 years ago)

  AMURIA, Uganda (BP) -- Islamic extremists ambushed a church leader in eastern Uganda this month after a sheikh sent to assassinate him during worship instead accepted Christ, sources told Morning Star News. Read More