Team Five Morris

Year in review and the way forward.

January 16^th 2009 we land in Uganda, moved into our house in Wabigalo and put our kids in a local school. Began work with a IM national staff who ended up being a wolf in sheep's clothing, after I openly rebuked him in front of his elders and told him he could no longer be a pastor and firing him from IM staff he (allegedly) got me a 6hr appointment with some CID cops who interrogated me until the US embassy showed up. This was all for throwing a party at my house for the neighborhood, praying, singing and doing an exegetical devo.

Through that experience we realized we had some immigration issues and it was illegal for us to be doing what we were doing with tourist visas. Since we're the only employees with IM in Uganda we were on our own. We had some friends, Moses & Betty Odongo, who were willing to help us out with special passes through Arise and Shine Worship Center (ASWC). This was truly the beginning of something special. Our plans

Our friends from Vintage21 returned home and reported to the world and their church family the details of their Uganda trip. They were kind enough to include us in their report as well as their future goals. For those who don't know, Vintage21 is a product of the Acts29 church planting network and is now a growing multi-campus group of believers in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. We have long admired Acts 29, loved hanging out with Pastor Nate Williams and John Heeley while they were here in Kampala, and are humbled they chose to share our story in this amazing "shout-out". We pray this is a start to an amazing work together.

Sojourn Uganda, Redeemer, Sovereign Grace, One Tribe Logos in Uganda......what shall it be. We have to come up with a name and we are divided on what to call it. Sojourn sounds cool, Redeemer is on every other block around here, Sovereign Grace is good but One Tribe may speak to the people a bit and Logos in Uganda sounds like a Star Trek episode. I'm sure it will come to us, but we want to give it some meaning to what we're about. Gospel centered, Christ exalting, Scripture driven, glory of God focused, faith filled, grace operated ministry. If you haven't heard from us in awhile that's because we haven't recharged our account until now. In addition you're also not on our prayer list or you haven't checked the web-site. You may have some catching up to do. Some exciting things have happened and

So the deal is, I am so grateful for the unregenerate person who called me in.  In the sphere of pastors and church goers I have real street creds now.  I even had the vice chairman of the local pastors organization come to my house and congratulate me on my recent incarceration attempt.  He said, "Now we know you are supposed to be here."  Apparently any pastor worth their salt and not paying off officials gets a ride from the police, especially if they don't have there papers in order.  So thank you unregenerate guy for your help in my acceptance to the community.

I never knew my dad's training would come in so handy.  My dad, being a policeman himself, would