Ugandan Hospitality

Today we finalized meeting preparations with our host, the Evangelical Alliance of Africa. The hotel they selected for the consultation is in the city of Entebbe on the shores of Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa. Their hospitality is warm and friendly.

Uganda hosts more than 200,000 refugees from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and Sudan. The country is also coping with 850,000 internally displaced refugees who fled the violence of the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda.

Some of the refugees and internally displaced persons in Uganda are housed in refugee camps located throughout the country. But many others receive no support and try to survive in local communities.

Ugandan churches respond in a variety of ways to the overwhelming needs of the refugees in their midst. They welcome encouragement, prayer and practical support from other Christians.