Baylor University / Compassion International Mission Trip

One of the purposes, it now seems, of our Compassion International Sponsor Tour to Uganda last fall was for John to be able to coordinate funds from Baylor University alumni working with him at Ernst & Young, the missional hearts of current accounting students at Baylor, and the great ministry of Compassion International.

So, what are the results of all this coordination, lots of Compassion orchestration, and dedicated, creative Baylor accounting students? A mission trip to Uganda.

A couple Compassion staff members from the US, a Baylor accounting professor, 14 accounting students, and a representative from EY are getting read to board a plane in London headed to Kampala as I type this. They will be met by some great people working for the Compassion Uganda country office when they arrive.

I've looked at their schedule for the next 11 days and, whew, I could not be a college student again! Surviving on adrenaline, an hour of sleep, and youth for more than two weeks is, sadly, a thing of the past for me. That ship has sailed.

Anyway, the Baylor students will be working with church leaders, local businesses, and Compassion Leadership Development Program students at Uganda Christian University to research for microfinance loans, teach ethics courses, and establish some basic accounting and business understandings so business people and leaders can use God's resources wisely. And of course they'll also visit some Compassion projects in Uganda and play with some fantastic children!

Considering the quantity of stuff they plan to cram into this trip and the fact that none of them need a decent amount of sleep, their blog should be chock-ful of entertaining tidbits.

So, read along if you can. Definitely keep this group, the LDP students they'll be working with, and all their activities in your prayers.

Because of a little thing called "work", John was unable to go on the trip this time, so we are following along via the blog posts as well.

(And if you thought I could write a whole post about this mission trip and not ask you, once again, to consider sponsoring a Compassion child, you'd be wrong. It's like you don't even know me!)

Happy Sunday!