Jennifer in Uganda

Jennifer Wilmore is a remarkable young woman whom Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was privileged to support this past summer as she joined twelve other students on the Student.Go Millennium Development Goal Special Project Team.   This team visited 5 countries on 3 continents observing and working along-side CBF field personnel whose work address directly the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  This project was designed in hopes that the participants would return home as advocates for the things they had seen and the people they had met.  Jennifer described the trip as “the greatest journey of my life.”
“Our third stop brought us to Uganda, and by the end of our short time there I knew I wanted to come back,” says Jennifer.   Her desire and call has come to fruition.  She has accepted an opportunity to live and work with CBF Field Personnel in that area for the next several months.
“My primary role will be to oversee and implement development projects.  These communities have suffered as a result of conflict and are lacking in many basic necessities, including food security, clean water, basic health care, education on all levels, malaria and HIV/AIDS awareness.  I will work closely with local churches and partners and have the opportunity to participate in teaching and training.  I expect to join the [CBF Field Personnel] in ministering to groups of refugees, widows and children and to help host volunteers and teams from the United States.”
Be in prayer for Jennifer as she engages this wonderful work.  If you would like assist her financially in this endeavor, please send your tax deductable contributions to Tennessee CBF designated for Jennifer Wilmore.  You can also follow her work on the her blog: This is the First Day of My Life or on her website: Jen in Uganda.  There is also a Facebook group you can join.