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Under my travel tips section I have a Packing Tips Check List with a "DETAILS" link by the items where an explanation about the recommendation can be found. A number of site visitors have found this to serve as a table of contents to help them cover all the bases in their preparation for ministry in Uganda. Also I have a Trip Preparation Time Line that is equally helpful in getting everything ready for a trip. If your team can travel any time during the year, there are travel periods when you can get better travel rates to and from the United States and Entebbe. ACTI is the Africa Christian Training Institute, a Word and deed ministry that has worked in Uganda since 1983. It was then that Dr. Henry Krabbendam, a professor of Biblical studies at Covenant College, made a life changing trip to Uganda that was embroiled in an internal struggle for its very life. The result of this trip has been twenty-three years of ministry by ACTI with hundreds making short-term trips to share Christ, to take benevolenet gifts (Bibles, books, medicines, etc.) and to generally encourage the body of Christ in Uganda. I am often asked what sort of person should attempt such a trip. I have attempted to answer this question on my ministry issues section at Who Should Go? section. Dr. Krabbendam and two other ACTI team members were on their way to Uganda aboard British Airways Flight 2069 in December of 2000, when a man attempted to disable the pilot and crash the aircraft. It was the two ACTI team members, Clarke Bynum and Gifford Shaw, who pulled the man off the pilot and by God's providence saved the flight. While this story was widely reported in all the media at the time, a very good account by Clarke Bynum appeared in the July 2001 issue of Guideposts, pages 43-45. Mr. Bynum died of cancer in September of 2007. My first trip was in 1992 and like Dr. Krabbendam, I cannot stay away from Uganda and am constantly seeking others to go with me. This site is just my personal experiences and opinions and I always encourage people to talk with others as well about such an adventure. I add information regularly so check back often. If you have a specific question, please email me. Please also remember that this page is Uganda specific with a USA point of origin. Some of the information would be different for those whose citizenship and/or point of origin is another country. If you like, you can make me aware of your visit to this site with a site visitor's email. This is for my own information only. Your email address will not be added to any list or shared with anyone else. ACTI applications, forms, and other information are available through the Reconciliation Network's Uganda specific pages. Just in case you are looking for the Leber family Uganda site and landed here in error, or if you just want to see some more good informaiton on Uganda, their address is ugandamission.org.
U.S. State Department Contact Information WASHINGTON The State Department can be reached at:
In an emergency, you would need to contact the Consular Affairs, Overseas Citizen Services (CA/OCS). Do not attempt initial contact via fax. First make voice contact so that someone at the State Department will be expecting information from you via fax. Below is a list of useful numbers:
Kampala - U.S. Embassy - Washington - Embassy of the Republic of Uganda
Download a printable Adobe version of the
Ugandan Visa Application United Kingdom Travel Information
Telephones, Faxes, Email in Uganda
To call the US from Uganda is expensive. At one time it was $9.00 per minute. They do have phone cards you can purchase at the Post Office (which also runs their phone company)
I have not yet tried any of these
calling cards, USA to Uganda, but this website seems to offer some good rates (if they in fact deliver what they advertise). Also, you should understand that it is very common for our teams to be in locations where making and receiving telephone calls is difficult.
Our Ugandan Co-ordinator, Rashid Luswa, is the surest contact but since one team might be deployed in one area of Uganda while he helps a team in another area, it could still take several days to a week for him to deliver a message. If you are in Uganda with ACTI, Rashid will know where you are and will make the very best effort to get a message to you as soon as possible. As stated above, those who go with us to Uganda will be given all the necessary contact numbers.
While private fax machines are available, the Uganda Post Office system maintains a fax machines in post offices where telephone service is available. ACTI can supply the telephone numbers necessary for your itinerary. Increasingly however, email is gaining a foothold in Uganda and in most cases, email will be the best way to communicate.
Follow this link for more contact information (phone, fax, mail) for ministry and services concerning Uganda. It would be appreciated if you would make me aware of additional information to add to this section.
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