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After a year off blogging, I'm back again.  I hope this will be a good way to communicate with people, and share what amazing things God is doing here in Africa.  This is the most fruitful year we have ever seen in our ministries here in Uganda.  I'll be writing more on this and other topics shortly. 

I work with a wonderful team of 9 Ugandan development workers/missionaries and 1 other US Missionary, a nurse practitioner from Florida.  Current projects and planned ministries that we are doing include:

1. Timothy Project - caring for 150 orphans and street children, through school scholarships and mentoring.
2. Napak Peace Project - bringing 6000 previously warring tribal elders and warriors to live together in harmony and cooperation in 39 Peace Villages. 
3. EthnoVet Research and Development - developing 20 traditional herbal veterinary medicines into modern commercial products.
4. EthnoVet Commercial Woodlots - monitoring 40 commercial woodlots of herbal veterinary medicines to provide a sustainable supply of crude products for the commercial formulations.
5. CAHW Curriculm Development - Standardizing a National Community Animal Health Worker curriculum for Uganda.  Writing a manual for the trainers and a workbook for the CAHWs.
6. HIV/AIDS integrated programmes - mainstreaming HIV/AIDS education into all our projects
7. Spiritual mentoring of staff and students and Team Building.
8. UCVM Symposium - Conducting an international veterinary symposium in Kampala at the end of April
9. Goat and Camel Revolving Loans - for orphans and widows as the first step to come out of poverty
10. Micro-Enterprise Development - creating alternative livelihoods for pastoralist communities in order to diversify their incomes and avert the inherent risks of their society.  (beadwork, grain grinding mills, cement block making, etc.)
11. Jesus Film Ministry, Hut to Hut evangelism and discipleship beginning in June and July 2008.
12. Medical outreach ministries in July 2008

Please be praying for us, as our plates are quite full as you can see, but the Lord's hand is moving and His Word is living and active amongst us.  Thanks.

Yours in Him, 

Dr. Val