The harvest is plentiful
Written by Marco DTS Student Nine from our team headed out from YWAM Hopeland in Uganda to do prison ministry and door-to-door evangelism. We arrived first at the prison and discovered they were not ready for us. We promptly switched gears, and went into the town nearby. Solomon and Tory joined forces as he was asked to speak on a …
Africa through God’s eyes
By Keaton DTS Student Africa is a beautiful continent; filled with color, culture, and crazy cuisine. Africa has also opened my eyes to some serious issues in the world. In America, Africa problems seemed all too far away to care about. However, the sight, sound and smell of poverty are all too real in person. One example of the poverty …
Muslims Meet Jesus
By Brad DTS Student The first people our team met during our day of evangelism in Uganda were three Muslim women. As Brook and Codi spoke to the women, they began to understand more of what the women believe. Brook, taking what he understood and letting the Holy Spirit work through him, began to explain to the women how the …
Saving Albert
By Breland DTS Student At the end of our first week in Uganda, we visited the home of our hostess where we were able to hear the testimony of a little boy named Albert. Monique, our hostess, houses 20 orphaned children at all times. As I listened to Monique tell this 12-year-old boy’s story, I couldn’t help noticing the large …
God’s compassion brought to life
The dust clung to my skin as we rode to our hotel. The familiar scent of diesel mixed with cooked food stayed with me as our driver weaved through traffic. I looked out the window, observing the scenery before me, taking it all in while fighting jet lag. I was in a very intense conversation with God. I wasn’t ready …
Hope for Refugees
My team ate breakfast together at a gas station, excited and nervous for what the day would hold. We were going to a refugee camp near the Uganda/Tanzania border. We didn’t know what to expect, only that we had some clothes and food to give away.
Bye, Bye, Auntie Bread
by Brittany, DTS staff, Uganda I knew we would be friends from the first moment that we met. We were sitting around the dinner table eating rice and chicken. Angela sucked on a chicken bone that stuck out of her mouth. I couldn’t help but smile at her. She smiled a toothy, eight-year-old smile back at me, bone still in …
Adventure in the special needs home in Jinja, Uganda
The YWAM DTS team on outreach in Uganda spends a day with children living in a special needs home.
DTS Outreach team has a busy first weekend in Uganda
Since they landed in Uganda, the YWAM Madison DTS outreach team has been busy running kids camps (Friday to Saturday), and did the Sunday Service (or at least parts of the 6 hour service), and ran a teen girls ministry after the kids camp on Friday. Whew! Great job, girls! Here are some photos from the team’s first weekend in …