Tony & Kristy Applegate

Serving in Uganda, Africa

The Applegate family has been in Uganda since 2002. Their first experience was in the southern Ugandan city of Mbarara where they worked for 10 months maintaining the work of a missionary who was on furlough. During the 10 months the Lord burdened the hearts of Tony and Kristy to return to Uganda as permanent missionaries. In January of 2005 the Applegates returned to Uganda to work with Keith Stensaas and family in Masaka, a city 2 hours northeast of Mbarara. God has put a unique mixture of present and future planning for fulfilling the Biblical missionary role of church planting. more..

Alan was cheating.

Alan was cheating. He was tearing pages out of his AWANA book so he could do less and still get the badges. It worked for a while but then we caught on. Why was his book thinner than the rest?

We called him aside. "Alan, you don't have to cheat! You're smart enough to do the work and memorize the verses." He looked at us rather puzzled. "No one has ever said that about me. I don't think I'm smart enough to learn this." Instead of punishing him or asking him to leave the club, we just sat down with him and explained that God is not pleased with cheating. more..