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Welcome
Welcome to Bob's Uganda Short-term Ministry Guide. My purpose is to provide supplemental and anecdotal information from my experiences in leading short-term mission teams to the East African nation of Uganda with the Africa Christian Training Institute (ACTI). If interested, you can read a few words about my site use and web page philosophy. I am in the process of working my way through my site page by page and creating an Alphebetical Index of the entire site but this is a slow process so check back often.

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 benevolent 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.