Last month in Tanzania, the BWM staff hosted an all-African-led Leaders Conference. Below is the report by Renatus Cosmos Kanunu that will bless you greatly. You’ll want to read this and weep for joy! Looking back on the Key Men Conference done in Kahama, I am amazed and humbled that God would allow Barry Wood Ministries to be a part of something so important to
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Enough of the “D” Words
I went to the movies last weekend and saw The Jersey Boys. It is another nice film from Clint, you know the guy with the big pistol, Dirty Harry. This film interested me mostly because it was about my era in high school. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons were a hit when I had a scratchy radio in my 49’ Ford. Like all
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Joy in the Midst of Sadness
Being a preacher/pastor for over half a century means I have led many a funeral. Some are very sad, resulting from circumstances surrounding the death. Those funerals are hard on all who attend. I have observed over the years that other funerals are a “mixed bag” in that there is both sadness mixed with joy. I’ve pondered the difference. Here is what life at
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The Africa I love, serve, and pray for is at war. It is not a conventional war, but it is war none the less. It is being waged by one man’s passion that causes many men pain. New names are appearing on the global landscape as enemies of a peaceful world. You’ve heard about them-al Qaeda, al Shabaab, now it is the ISIS in
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I am thinking today of the horrors of abortion. My reasons for these thoughts are varied. First, one of our dearest friends has a preemie baby grand-daughter struggling to live on a ventilator. Last night I saw pictures of this 1 ½ lb. baby girl in her critical care unit, attached to wires, tubes, and hoses, struggling to breathe. It tugs at your heart.
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I have just returned from a very poor and severely improvised area of Southwest Uganda near the Tanzanian border. As I traveled into the bush visiting villages, I was struck once more by the meagerness of life there. Folks living in mud huts with thatch roofs, one room domiciles with no heat, cooling, stove, or electricity-no nothing. Living dirty, hard lives on dirt floors,
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Kenya is a dangerous place-and I am there! Especially Nairobi, where the “bomb of the week” goes kaboom. Just yesterday in the heart of city center, a terrorist bomb killed 10 innocent shoppers in a market. Next, a “matatu” (a van used as a taxi) was exploded killing even more innocent folks. What madness, what darkness can cause such an act of brutality and
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Cowboys
I live in Texas and many of my friends are cowboys-either the Urban kind or actual ranching cowboys. The picture you see here is a real cow in Uganda. Those massive horns are the distinctive mark of the Ankole cattle of Uganda. They are know as the “cattle of kings” among the Watusi people who almost worship them. When we see those huge horns,
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I am sitting in a pastor’s training in a remote place in Western Uganda, over 9,000 miles from my home and a million miles away from the civilization you know where you are. The men and women listening to me teach are living in mud huts, they pastor small churches in buildings you would not put your pet in. They have no TV, no
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Most folks dream of going to Africa. I often dream from Africa. Having lost count of how many safaris (journeys) I have made to the African continent, the excitement is still there but for different reasons. My first trip was to Kenya in 1976. I went there to preach in the bush with a few missionary friends of mine. In those days it took three weeks
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