A businessman and a missionary work together to train pastors in Ugandan refugee camps.
Don Schrenk, an American businessman and Isaac Wootton, a missionary in Uganda, have partner ed together to reach farther into Uganda's refugee camps through partnership and pastor training.
Graduates of Isaac’s many cycles of BTCP training have spread around East Africa and by God’s providence have been able to meet the need of pastor training in Northern Uganda refugee camps.
To see more of how Don is using the BTCP concept and curriculum, visit his ministry's website at teachingthevine.org
Transcript:
On my tenth trip to Uganda Melissa and I were over there working with the orphanages and and I ran into Isaac in a little town called Jinja and he and I met at a coffee shop over there and we started talking about orphans and about widows and about refugees because I had heard that they had refugee camps way way on the northern part along the Sudan border up in that direction and Isaac said that you know don't really do much with refugees but that's something that he'd like to maybe look into I train and disciple pastors and mentor them and shake them and look for a high-quality product using the BT CP as a curriculum and Don looked like he valued high quality training and said hey how do we get this into the camps in northern Uganda existing pastors come out of South Sudan and I was like hold on well I don't know I'm involved I got students in the area but I don't know and then Don kept going from there on that right some ideas and so out of that we put a little exploration team together we get permission from our church in Atlanta here we we went together into those camps and were permitted in by the elders and by the UN to birth a training centers for pastors inside of those camps and we're heavily leveraging Isaac’s graduates that he has used to speak the language up there and to live up there in those areas into those camps and those guys take it 100% from there and we need your prayers over the schools of ministries that are outside of those camps that are headed up by Isaac’s teams as well as we need your prayers on the schools that are inside of those camps themselves it's really at the end of the day is business guys a lot of us get a chance to go on a short term mission trip and it is we do what's the odds of running into another American that lives in country on the ground in the very country that you're at and Isaac lives in Uganda he and his wife Clea with their five children they live there so the fact that I could meet them and we could get a synergy going together we both have a love for the Lord and how can we take that love for the Lord to the other people groups that maybe have an or anything before so you business guys you guys get a chance once in a while to go on trip so maybe in your wife going on a vacation you like to go to these remote countries maybe you go to South Africa or maybe you want to come to Uganda sometime to visit us right we'd love to have you over there but what really is is Melissa and I learned in 2012 to get outside our box to do something that wasn't natural for us to do but get outside and help other people Isaac and I got put us together for a reason maybe you're to join us for a reason as well to get outside your box and to participate and what we're building here in Uganda through the ministry.