Let me introduce you to a friend of mine….Richmond Wandera.

Lucy and I were introduced to Richmond 7 years ago through Compassion International. He grew up in Uganda as a Compassion Sponsor child. After graduating from university and getting his Masters at Moody, he now leads his own indigenous ministry, Pastors Discipleship Network Click here to get to know PDN.  PDN trains and disciples the pastors of Uganda and other East African countries. In the past 9 years they have trained over 4,800 pastors, and in the next 3 years they are on target to train 10,000 more!

God’s hand of favor rests upon Richmond and PDN, as the Lord has given them strategic partnerships and support from the faculty of Lancaster Bible College, Precept Ministries, Christian Book Distributors, and others. In the past 2 years they have purchased their own property in the capital, Kampala, and built a training facility. A resource library and media center will open in the Fall of 2018.

Helping the churches in Uganda and East Africa

Richmond contacted us several months ago and asked us to pray about making several trips to Uganda over the next 2 years to help his leadership team develop an interim pastor ministry for the churches of East Africa. This interim ministry would not only help churches in crises (those in painful pastoral transition), but also those experiencing blessing (open doors for ministry that they either can’t or don’t know how to take advantage of).

Our first trip will be September 23 – October 8, 2018 and will focus on meeting key people, learning about the culture, and spending time with the PDN leadership team to understand the need of the churches. We are there to observe, listen, ask a lot of questions –in order to contextualize interim ministry for East Africa.

The second trip will be in 2019 to meet again with PDN’s leadership team to start putting the pieces in place for an interim pastor ministry in Uganda. Then, once the concept is practiced in Uganda (and the kinks worked out!), the intent is to make it available to the churches across East Africa in 2020.

You might be wondering about Lucy’s role? PDN has a training track called “Women of Influence”. This is a group of 200 women in the capital city (some are pastor’s wives, civic leaders, para-church leaders), who have their own large groups of women they are building into. Lucy has been asked to prepare to speak to these key women of influence.

Trip Specifics

Our desire is to develop a team for prayer and financial support. The budget for each trip is $5,000 with the majority of that being airfare. Here are the specifics of how you can respond:

• • • If you would like to intercede for us, then fill-out the following to receive our prayer updates for these trips:
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• If you would like to contribute to our trip, your gift will be handled by Transition Resource Ministry and is tax-deductible. You can give in several ways:

» If by check, send it to:
Rick Foster -Transition Resource Ministry
1218 Chesham Village Point
Colorado Springs, CO  80907

» If by credit or debit card, click here to be taken to PayPal. After filling-in an amount and choosing form of payment, please click the box to add a special instruction that it’s for the Uganda trip.

We would be excited if you would prayerfully consider supporting this strategic opportunity. If you have any questions, or need additional specific information, please contact us! We can be reached via email at rickfoster1@gmail.com, lucyfoster2@gmail.com or by phone at 719.359.6137.

Rick and Lucy Foster