By Jared Morrison This whole coronavirus thing has been and will continue to be quite a crazy ordeal. However, there have been several really positive things come out of this pandemic and one in particular makes me smile. It seems the church is being a little more like The Church. The restrictions on group sizes […]
Good Morning, Uncle Jared!
–by Jared Morrison “Good Morning, Uncle Jared!” These four words have become music to my ears! I hear them at least 15 times every day from the girls in our program while walking around our compound. Kipindi Mpito, Forgotten Children’s new flagship program, has finally begun. After several years of vision casting, planning, and research, […]
Embrace
-by Kimberly Morrison “Ouch!” I loudly exclaimed after accidentally thumping my hand on the doorframe. Gideon, who was playing close by, looked up and quietly said, “Sometimes I say ‘ouch’ too when I see you get hurt. I wish I could fix it with a hug.” I don’t have words to describe the level of […]
Better Together
-by Jared Morrison We kicked off July with our first annual Forgotten Children Uganda staff retreat. We spent 5 days together at Musana Camps overlooking Lake Victoria. It was a wonderful time of rest and growing together as a team. Our theme for the week was “Better Together” so everything we did was focused on […]
“I Fink Dis Is Fun!”
-by Kimberly Morrison Sunday is market day in our little village, and that means our usual route to the highway is blocked by vendors setting up their booths, delivery trucks dropping off product, and hundreds of busy shoppers buying their weekly groceries. That means we get to take the “back way” if we leave the […]
“You Are Most Welcome!”
-As told by Jared Morrison with permission If you ever get to visit our home in Uganda, the first smiling face you will see is a young man named Wasswa. After rushing to chain up our four-legged welcome crew, Wasswa will fling open both sides of our gate and proudly stand at attention as you […]
A Day in the Life
By Jared & Kimberly Morrison – Missionaries to Uganda This might come as a surprise to some of our supporters, but we’re not saving the world over here. (Gasp!) We hope most of you don’t envision us rescuing starving babies, caring for dozens of orphans in our home, or leading thousands to Christ on a […]
Bewitched
As Reported by Jared & Kimberly Morrison – Missionaries to Uganda This is Patience. She’s 16 years old and in the equivalent of our sophomore year of high school. Patience is one of the 15 young ladies who will be in our brand-new program next year. We recently sat down with her and a few […]
March Madness – Morrison’s Update
-Post authored by the Morrison Family, Missionaries to Uganda We started off the month celebrating 5 years of joy with Moriah and Josiah. March 3rd, 2014 is the day God fulfilled his promise to us bring us our little lady, and we got the best bonus ever to keep her company. Next, we got our […]
A Story of Hope
-by Jared Morrison This is Agnes (left) with our Ugandan Director, Cathy, at Pride College in Mpigi, Uganda. I’m glad I decided to travel with our team to Mpigi on this day because I got to meet Agnes and hear her story. Agnes, who is 17, had traveled 3.5 hours (over 120 miles) by herself […]