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David Ayers
Oct 24, 20172 min read
Mbeiza is Home.
Mbezia died this morning. We found out just as we neared the hospital for Caleb’s surgery. Pretty much everything we feared might happen,...
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David Ayers
Oct 22, 20174 min read
Evie and Her Captain.
I sit here rubbing her back and ask what Bible story she’d like. She quietly says, “The one when Jesus walks on water.” I swallow and...
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David Ayers
Oct 12, 20171 min read
Release
Today, we beg God to part the waters, as He has faithfully done so many times before. We ask Him to make a way for His own to receive...
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David Ayers
Sep 18, 20171 min read
Mbezia & The Boat (an update from Dave)
~A post from Dave~ Life can be difficult. Sometimes the enemy comes like a flood. But then is the time to prove our faith and live our...
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David Ayers
Sep 18, 20172 min read
Mbezia.
How could a little one endure such suffering? And in the midst of it be speaking out in gratitude, and showing us love, and teaching my...
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David Ayers
Sep 18, 20171 min read
Hairy Lemon…our family’s magical place
One of the sweetest pieces of moving to Uganda has been this gift of recreating as a family. In March when we attended RESTORE, one of...
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David Ayers
Sep 17, 20172 min read
The Vision into Reality…
There is no place on this earth that reaches beyond His Love. We GO, because HE FIRST LOVED US. HE FIRST CAME TO US. Over a year ago. ...
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David Ayers
Aug 14, 20172 min read
Breaking the Silence
“Every valley made me lift my eyes up Every burden only made me stronger Every sorrow only made Your joy go Deeper and deeper, deeper,...
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David Ayers
Nov 30, 20163 min read
Islands of HOPE–Our Pilgrim Voyage
And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the...
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David Ayers
Nov 15, 20161 min read
A month of LOVE, family, and re-filling
I am blessed as I look back on October…it was a month FULL of blessings and deep, deep filling. The Lord, in His goodness, gave my...
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David Ayers
Nov 8, 20161 min read
the Summons
John L. Bell & Graham Maule Will you come and follow me if I but call your name? Will you go where you don’t know and never be the same?...
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David Ayers
Sep 28, 20161 min read
REUNITED!!!
This is such a gift from God!! I LOVE family!!!
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David Ayers
Sep 28, 20161 min read
love at first sight.
This is pretty much how happy Isaiah was to meet his Nanna and Boppa for the first time!!! And….me too!!!!
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David Ayers
Aug 1, 20162 min read
BAPTIZED
I’d like to introduce you to Godfred. He is on our ‘home staff’ here in Jinja. He accepted JESUS in the last couple months and was...
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David Ayers
Jul 31, 20162 min read
Family “VACATION”.
So, we had an ADVENTURE of the biggest kind. We took a family ‘vacation’…a road trip through Uganda way, way South to the border of...
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David Ayers
Jul 22, 20161 min read
The Islands
Our hearts are being broken. Falling in love. Praying. Seeking the Father’s heart. Remembering there is HOPE IN JESUS.
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David Ayers
Jul 19, 20161 min read
Friday Tribe 2 How we Love You!
A sweet and unexpected gift in moving to Jinja has been this INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY of homeschool friends AND their Mamas!! Every other...
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David Ayers
May 19, 20161 min read
Caleb & Flash.
One day…she went into labor. She laid eggs ALL. DAY. LONG. Poor girl. 18 eggs…Then she died. So we are holding her eggs carefully and...
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