It's not too often we have people coming from overseas to work with us, but in a way, that's what happened with Danny & Barb Hicks, our new Training Centre Managers. The Hicks are career missionaries and were stationed in Indonesia,

Mark Sorell, VTI Executive Director, is an MK from Peru. Accompanied by the GAP Peru team and his wife Cheryl, Mark retuned to Peru for the first time in 32 years! He reports (July 17/06): We made it safely to Tarapoto and all is well. Boy, does this feel good to be here.

GAP Quebec team (July 17/06). Alone on a foggy night, I made my way to the swamp that had as many mosquitoes as my mind had thoughts. There always seems to be a lot to contemplate and reflect on when your involved in such a neat work.

Melissa, Derek, Ashleigh, Shayla, Randy and I have certainly had our moments of growing, bonding and learning so far as we've traveled from Montreal, to Laval, to Lachute.

July 22/06. Things here in Uganda are great! We had a good first week of ministry. In the mornings we would go to a street boys shelter in Nsambia (a district in Kampala). The director, Milton, was so happy that we came. He said no one likes these boys, not even in their own place.

People chase them and hit them if they can because they think they are all thieves and no good. He said for us to come and love them is so good, and to give them the good news gives them hope. We are excited because we get to spend our afternoons with these boys for the next two weeks again. Please pray for Milton and these boys that God would be working in them. Many of them have no parents and others parent are drug users and worse. Pray that they will know the love of Christ.