






The Team

We were happy to have Dr. Scott and Susan Christie and Dr. Doug and Sherri Dickens join us for a week in Uganda to teach about issues related to people who have been traumatized by war and conflict. Issues such as forgiveness, grief, depression, PTSD, etc. This is the group at the mall in Kampala with Peter, Jennifer and HarrietTrip to Rwanda
Jennifer (Southern Hemisphere), Shelah (trying to be in both) and Harriet (Northern Hemisphere)
Rather than pay the man $5.00 to demonstrate the direction that water swirls in at the equator, Harriet decided to give us an explanation...
Did you know that it goes clockwise or counter clockwise depending on which side of the equator you are on??
At the Uganda/Rwanda border and also Gorilla territory
Dr. Doug Dickens teaching a group of leaders at the conference
Dr. Scott Christie


Beautiful sunsets too
Conference participants singing
Shelah in Goma, DRC with some of the students we are sponsoring, in partnership with Pastor Stephen Bamoleke and Shalom Transformation Ministries. Most of the kids are former child soldiers, or have been displaced due to the terrible war.



Beautiful sunsets too
*we had the permission of the students, women, and children shown below to take their photos
In 2002 there was a volcano which erupted and destroyed a large portion of Goma. As a result nearly everything there is covered in black volcanic rock. The roads, the houses, everything is built out out of, or on top of, volcanic rock. Also, there has been a terrible fighting in Congo over the years, resulting in millions of deaths, thousands of children forced into conflict and high incidents of rape and violence.
Millions of innocent people have been traumatized and displaced from their homes as a result.
It was so special to meet them face-to-face. We can't wait to go back and get to know them better!
The Shalom Church, who is taking the responsibility of caring for many of these traumatized kids
These five guys are now OUT of the army and back IN school!
Unfortunately, due to the war and violence in Eastern Congo, there has been terrible and widespread occurrences of rape.



This group of women at Shalom are involved in providing a support group and assistance to victims of rape. There is a stigma associated with rape, so the women go out and try to find women who need help and then get them to treatment centers and reach out to them in friendship and love



Another place we visited offers rehabilitation and sewing classes for victims of rape and violence so that the women can have a livelihood
Around Goma
Kids from Shalom church
local houses
a road in Goma town





Around Goma





He only had one but he could get around on it very quickly!

Local bicycle used for transporting all kinds of things
* For more see our Refuge and Hope blog at www.refugeandhope.blogspot.com
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