The last couple of months have been a whirlwind of travel and other things. We spent most of July in Georgia. Some people from a great organization in Atlanta helped us with some speech and language evaluations for the kids and the rest of the month we spent visiting Amy’s parents and some supporters and churches in Columbus. We had a nice break visiting the family, and even got to do the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum on the way home.
We’ve had a lot of news and updated plans for the future in the last couple of months. We are waiting for some answers from Pioneers and a few other people before making final decisions, so more will come about that later. If you are one of our regular financial partners, I will be reaching out to you personally over the next few weeks (unless you are one that I’ve talked to recently already!), please keep praying for us as we trust in the goodness of the Lord and this season of family development in which he currently has us.
I (Justin) am trying to plan a trip back to Africa in the next couple of months. Right now Uganda is on another lockdown and there are some restrictions in South Sudan that would make a trip back impossible. I could get there, but then wouldn’t be able to move between places to meet Teresa and teach the pastortraining courses we have in the queue. Thank you for your prayers for our family and for the Lopit people, keep praying that God will open doors for me to continue traveling, that pastors and churches would grow and that the gospel would go out among the Lopit tribe and the rest of the world’s newest nation!
Since I wrote last, we have helped Teresa get into a program for new mothers. She will be able to go to school while also learning some vocational skills and basic parenting things, and is much better taken care of than she was in the old arrangement where she was staying at our place and having visiting teachers. I also talked to Paul last week and he is continuing with his course work and with discipling Michael. He said that they have had a terrible drought again this year and that lots of people haven’t even planted crops…another thing for you to be praying about!
Feel free to reply to this email and reach out if you want to connect. I’ve been making lots of phone calls lately and I can add yours to the list! As always, thank you so much for your prayer and support! Justin, Amy, Ezekiel and Caleb Culp
