Signs & Wonders – White Rhinos

 Adam: Its hard to pick out particular memorable moments over the past three months because their have been so many. YWAM Arua marked its ten year anniversary with a large gathering of people who have been a part of its development over the past decade. 

A slide presentation charted the development of the staff community, the base and its ministries. And it all materialised from nothing from several verses and pictures a small team of YWAM staff felt God impress upon them back in 2001. 

Thank you John & Vikki, Sharon, Sam and Agnes. When we met Sam & Agnes in Uganda for the first time in 2007, Helen and I felt God was calling us to be a ’bridge of healing’, between the mostly separate worlds of W Nile’s deaf and hearing.

         Related, obliquely perhaps, is the plight of mankind’s relationship with the white rhino, mistakenly described by a colour rather than correctly by the fact that it has a wider mouth than its cousin the black rhino. Both animals are in fact grey! 

The word ‘wide’ was mistaken as ‘white’ by a prominent public figure and has been used ever since! I and Austin’s team recently visited Uganda’s White Rhino Sanctuary on our way back to Entebbe. The Sanctuary,  is midway through a twenty year plus project to breed them for gradual re-integration into parts of Uganda where they hope they will flourish. 

For me, there seemed to be some interesting parallels between the Rhino Sanctuary’s re-integration work and ours. In both cases ignorance been a major cause, but the near extinct ‘animal’ in our case has been interdependence. 

Our breeding program therefore is to co-create communication and D/H sensitisation tools that foster opportunities where D/H are happy to live, learn and earn serve together.