Dear Friends and Family,
As we prepare for our return to Uganda on August 9th, 2010 we need your help. We are planning on being in Uganda for the next 2 years. This requires a lot. We need your help to make the next two years successful.
We have needs in two areas. The first is with our monthly financial support and the second is basic needs for the family.
Due to the economic situation in America we have not been able to meet our monthly financial needs. We are $1200 short of our goal per month. We are getting on the plane to go to Uganda no matter what. However if our goal is not meet then that means we will not be as effective as we should be.
If you can help us by supporting us $20, $50 or $100 (even $1200) a month then we can make our next two years very successful. If you can help then click here. This link will allow you to set up a monthly support amount for our ministry. You just check the Volz Family and enter a one time amount or create an account to set up a monthly support amount to help us. Again click here to help us in this manner.
If you want to send us a check you can do that here:
Please make checks payable WOMF and send to:
World Outreach
Ministries Foundation
PO Box 23267
Federal Way, WA 98093-0267
Please indicate the Volz Family on your check. This is all tax deductible!
The second need is with our basic needs. We need everything from clothes to toothpaste. If you can send a one time donation to WOMF for us for this need that would help. You can do it by clicking here. Please select the Volz family and the amount. This is tax deductible. You can even send us gift cards for Target or Walmart to the above address. In doing this it is not tax deductible, sorry. However it would help us and bless us tremendously.
So we do need your help and these are the ways you can assist us. Please remember we leave on August 9th. So if you can help please do so by that date.
Thank you for your support and care!
Scott, Brenda, David, Sarah, Matthew, Nathanael, and Bethany Volz
A few weeks ago I spoke at our home church in Maple Valley, Washington. I shared on Ebenezer. Below is the audio of that sermon:
Ebenezer.mp3
If you want to see the pictorial video mentioned at the end of the recording you can see it here.
We have a video that is a collection of some pictures over the last 2 years. We played this one at our home church, Generational Hope.
On December 12, 2009, our Yesu Akwagala Churches in Uganda Africa, held a 14 couple mass wedding.
Traditionally in the months of November and December are big wedding months in Uganda. It is when the national schools are out for their longest break of the year. Most Ugandans have finished school. Ugandans also like to start a new year in a new way and what more appropriate than to have your wedding.
In our church organization here in Uganda we promote marriage as a institution that God has blessed and shows his favor through. As with many cultures a common way to wed is to just take up a wife and live together. In the church we teach that marriage is best as done before God and witnesses. The Ugandan Government has over the last couple of years made emphasis on couple to have a documented wedding for spouses to receive benefits from the other spouse. Uganda Christian Outreach Ministries is one of the few Pentecostal churches that is registered and allowed to wed couples in Uganda. Uganda does not have any recognized Common Law Marriage rules in country.
Many of our 14 couples are couples that have lived together and have desired to be wed in a church. Due to lack of funds they have not been able to do so. Doing the mass wedding we were able to allow a couple to be wed for about $200 each where it would normally cost $1000 or more. This is more than most Ugandans can afford. Most of the couple wed this day where blessed by the church in they help towards the wedding.
This was a great day.
We have started our Holiday Season here. We had a great Thanksgiving with all the Missionaries currently in Uganda. We had turkey, apple crumble, pumpkin pie, and many more wonderful foods. We are now looking towards Christmas.
