A missionary couple and one staff member were killed as gunmen raided a small college in northwestern Uganda. The college (Esther Evangelistical School of Technology) was part of a ministry called, "Here is Life" started by Daystar graduate, Isaac Anguyo, and in partnership with African Inland Mission. Buildings were burnt and other property destroyed in the attack.

The missionary couple (Warren and Donna Pett, both 49, former dairy farmers from Mukwonago, Wisconsin) were killed when men in military fatigues and armed with AK-47 rifles attacked the school, about 420 miles from Kampala. "They were totally and entirely dedicated to their Lord," said their son Saul in Mukwonago. "This is where he put them. We know they're home. That's the most consolation we have right now."

Please pray for the Pett family and the family of the African staff member. Please also remember the ministry of the school and the stability of the surrounding area.

Addional web links:

African Inland Mission link

Seattle Times Story Link

CNN Story link

Part of Isaac's story
(Isaac attended Daystar University through the generous support of a U.S. donor):

Some years ago a young Muslim Aringa school teacher by the name of Isaac Anguyo was led to faith in Christ and discipled by an AIM missionary at Arua, not far from Aringa, Seton MacClure, who had served in West Nile for many years.

Isaac was led to apply to Daystar University in Nairobi, a very fine Christian University, and studied there four years, receiving a BA degree from that school in cooperation with Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

He returned to his own people with a burning desire to help them and to reach them for Christ. Demonstrating a great deal of wisdom, he began by getting them started with a rice growing project to help in their nutrition, in setting up a grist mill to help them grind their grain, and in instituting a revolving library for those who could read English, all the time discipling a small group of men whom he had led to Christ. He called his little group "Here is Life".

It has been involved in setting up a small medical clinic, a low-power radio station in nearby Arua, and a technical school for training Aringa in mechanics, carpentry, leadership, Bible, evangelism, and other practical skills. He has gained the respect of the whole tribe as a result even though his Christian faith is always "out in the open".

[from the Myrtle Grove Presbyterian Church (Wilmington, North Carolina) website: http://www.adopt-a-people.org/stories/myrtle_grove_presby.html]