2008 Woodie Awards
Holidays in Hoima: Students spread Gospel over break
By: Chris Bullard
Issue date: 1/23/08 Section: Entertainment & Features
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Staff Writer
While many students spent their break working, relaxing and catching up with old friends, 10 North Greenville students spent a week and a half of their break halfway across the globe.
Coleman Brown, Megan Greene, Logan McKenzie, Sarah Moore, Erica Pittman, Drew Plumblee, Ashley Sullens, Ashley Sullivan, Megon Traynom and Dana Vervaep made up North Greenville University's Uganda L.I.G.H.T. team led by Murrill Boitnott, the founder of Macedonian Call Ministries, of Greenville, S.C.
The team left Dec. 6 for Hoima, a town in Uganda, expecting to minister in orphanages and hospitals and meet the King. Once arriving there was a change of plans due to the King's absence and an outbreak of Ebola, a highly deadly virus.
Mornings were spent doing evangelism in homes and at the market place, while afternoons were spent doing Training for Trainers, or T for T.
The students used T for T to teach different techniques on sharing the Gospel since a Bible is unaffordable in that area.
Working with Hoima Baptist Fellowship, the team held worship services during the evening and did a basketball ministry working with the kids at the Boima grounds, a community park.
"This was the best team I've ever taken to Uganda. The food was terrible. There were bad accommodations, but the team never complained," Boitnott said.
According to Boitnott over 100 people committed their life to the Lord.
Students also had the opportunity to help baptize 15 people. Baptisms were done in the pool the team rented at the hotel where they were staying due to unsanitary water.
"I got to baptize two people I led to Christ. It was a really humbling experience," said Traynham, junior intercultural studies.
Before returning on Dec. 17, the team hosted a worship service for the employees at their hotel and attended the local congregation-led worship service.
"It was the most amazing worship I've ever been a part of," said Sullens, sophomore early childhood education.
Plans are being made to return to Uganda again in December 2008.
"I want to encourage everyone who has not gone on a mission trip before to consider going to Uganda with a L.I.G.H.T. team next year," said Brown, senior early childhood education. "If Uganda is not the route you want to go, I pray that you consider many of the other mission trip opportunities that North Greenville provides."
If you are interested in mission work or for information on joining a L.I.G.H.T. team, contact Dr. Allen McWhite, director of NGU Global Missions Center.
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