Luke and Gene’s Trip to Africa II

Dear Friends and Family,

As many of you know, last year, Luke and I had the opportunity to go to Uganda, Africa. It was an incredible trip!!! Here are just a few of the highlights.

• We met our sponsored family and brought them a suitcase full of clothes, schools supplies, etc.
• We met people living with HIV/AIDS and got to know so many orphans and widows.
• We helped build a house and a church.
• We literally worked alongside Robert, the father of our sponsored family, to help build the house.
• We were able to give some people money that potentially saved their lives. For example, in two separate cases, we gave moms money to take their little girls with malaria for treatment. In another situation we provided money for a young child in desperate need of a surgery.

We met a widow whose house had recently burned down. We gave her money so she could get temporary boarding for her and her children and later helped build her a new home.

This summer, Luke and I are heading back to Uganda. We will again be going with a team of people through Global Family Rescue (GFR). Our trip is scheduled from July 6th through July 20th.

Here is our thought process around fundraising this year. I know many of you contributed last year,
and I, again, thank you so much for your generosity. I listed a few highlights above to show you the impact your contributions made. I also do not want anyone to feel pressured to contribute again or even for the first time. We are ready to personally fund the full cost of our trip. However, it has occurred to me that, quite simply, the more money we raise, the more help we will be able to provide once we get there. There are tremendous opportunities to significantly help people and in many cases save their lives while we are in Uganda. So, I want to give everyone a chance to be part of that.

If you would like to help the people we meet in Uganda, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. To contribute, please print and fill out the following form and return it with a check made payable to Global Family Rescue. I am getting this letter out a little late, so if you would like to financially assist this mission, please send in your contributions by June 15th.

Thank you for your support,

Gene and Luke Weaver

View pictures and comments from our first visit to Uganda at http://lukegeneafrica.blogspot.com/. Be sure to start from the bottom of the blog and read up to see our trip in chronological order. And stay tuned. . .you’ll be able to read about our upcoming journey on our new blog site at http://lukegeneafrica2.blogspot.com/

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2009 Uganda Trip – Luke and Gene Weaver

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Luke and Gene with our sponsored family, Robert and his 5 children. Robert’s wife died at the end of 2007 from HIV/AIDS. Robert also suffers from AIDS.