A team of Ada area residents returned from their June mission trip to Uganda.

The team, led by Bob Gould and his wife Abby (formerly Abby Epley) headed to Uganda on June 4 to help build a school and share The Gospel as part of their mission work with their local church, Crossroads Church of God located on State Route 309 west of Ada.

Bob says most of the people on the islands of Lake Victoria live in mud huts without electricity or running water. He has gone to the African nation six times to help build churches and schools. The nation is roughly 85% Christian and 12% Muslim.

The schools they build are one-room schoolhouses made of mud brick with metal roofs. Oftentimes there can be as many as 100 children in a small school building.
(Monty Siekerman)