A missionary’s life, just spreading the Word of God?

Let me first present. My name is Dirk Surmont,
friend of Jean Grade and Thomas Reed. They invited
me already on February 5th, this year, to come to
Uganda. I was willing to come, but not too soon,
rather in July and August and for a month, not some
weeks. That was agreed, but with the condition that I
would be involved in their work in Karamoja. Why
should I refuse?
My visit has a triple goal. My church, Vineyard
Ganda in the city of Ghent Belgium, decided to
support Jean and Tom as missionaries. It was in our
church that we met Jean for the first time during her
studies for her PhD in Ethnobotany at the University
of Ghent and that we started to build a friendship.
Our church ordered me to bring them an extra gift to
buy a bodaa-bodaa, the local word for a motorbike.
The second goal is to introduce Jean and Tom in the
Living Waters Course, a counseling course helping
people to be healed from father and mother wounds.
The third goal is to follow Jean and Tom in their
daily work as missionaries. My church asked me to
lead a missionary service and being with them is the
ideal preparation...

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Septermber 2011 Newsletter