More Than You Can Imagine (Kenya and Uganda: 16 January to 10 February 2026)
We started this trip with three in-country partners. By the end, we had worked with five, with time spent with three others. God is slowly opening for us more fields to work with, ministries to support, encourage and assist as they pour into people there 24/7/365.
The trip featured start-off with delivering medical supplies and equipment to Pastor Paul. Paul had been met during our trip to the Global Missions Health Conference, where Karla learned that he had been able to build a clinic but not outfit it yet. Leveraging contacts from our August trip to Chico California, Karla went to Chico to pick up donated supplies prior to our departing for Kenya. The two bags of supplies were welcomed gratefully. They also provided important learning opportunities about what paperwork will need to be obtained from the Kenya government to get a shipping container of donated medical supplies to the clinic.
After his brief visit, we then spent extended time with Pastor Isaiah, who we have now been working with for nearly 10 years. Community Clinics and a Widows Clinic, prayer walks around the houses in his mission church orphanage, plus multiple times of sharing Scriptures with the community church were just some of the many engagements.
From Kenya, we ventured into Uganda where a surprise six-hour border crossing waited. Turns out the van had not been cleared from their system when we visited one year earlier. God provided wisdom and resources to complete the border crossing. However, the unexpected challenges left the team depleted, resulting in creating an impromptu retreat/reset day, with us staying in Jinja for two nights before proceeding onto Mityana, The extended stay also opened an unexpected opportunity to visit Pastor Peter who oversees a mature, large orphanage as well as is spearheading efforts to plant a thousand churches. Future trips with potential medical clinics to street children are possible.
In Mitiyana, we worked with our lead to help purchase land to be used for his orphanage. Daniel takes care of roughly two dozen kids, with insufficient space for them to get good nights sleeps. Opportunities to expand his current location were extremely limited. God opened the door and an acre of land can now be developed to relocate the orphanage.
Back to Jinja, we visited the orphans tendered by Mwebaza, along with visiting the community church they attend that Sojourners helped to enclose and place a roof over. One of the orphans has been dealing with a non-healing foot ulcer, so plans were established to get follow-on care after our departure.
Returning to Kenya, we proceeded to travel to Philemon, a Pastor who one of our Sunday School Classes from our home church has been supporting for over fifteen years. We had met Philemon at our home church Feb 2025, and now it was our time to meet him. Our first clinic, to his church and the surrounding community seemed never to end. Yet we closed the doors late at night so that we could journey up to the desert, where clinics to three tribes were planned.
Each village had roughly 200 to 500 families, and each would exceed the ability of Karla and myself to take care by ourselves. However, God provided community nurses and health providers that extended our ability to see all that needed help. At one time, we had over four medical stations working. One village had nearly 60 active cases of Malaria. We had to adjust our schedule as one village experienced a tragic death the night before our clinic there. Rather than going there, we sent our two pastors onto the village to reach out to them while we continued to see people in the village on the island in the middle of the lake. The last day, we got to go to this village where the death occurred, spending extra time as God opened up to talk with the people and the leaders there. God's ability to provide comfort and care was amazing.