What are some ways I can encourage you while you're gone?

Do you have the gift of encouragement? We need partners who will send us mail, email, and care packages.

Here is the address you can mail us at:
The Stricklands
c/o The Life Ministry Uganda
PO Box 695
Kampala, Uganda


 We will have people visiting us throughout our time in Uganda so we'll keep you updated as to when people will be coming and if there is room to bring packages for us.

Ideas for Care Packages:

• Notes/letters from you and your family
• Recent pictures of you and your family or friends
• Fruit snacks
• Craisins
• Mac and Cheese
• Chocolate chips/chunks
• Instant Oatmeal packages
• Peppermint tea & Earl Grey Vanilla tea
• Starbucks VIA (Colombia or Vanilla flavour)
• Stickers
• Craft supplies for the boys
• anything Disney Pixar Cars or VeggieTales
• Latest worship CDs (Chris Tomlin, Hillsong United, Tim Hughes, Passion, etc.)
• Used magazines (Real Simple, Parenting, Hockey News, In Style, Style at Home, House & Home, etc.)

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What is Kampala like?

Kampala is like any major city. There are malls, shopping spots, a cinema, restaurants, bowling alley, crime, hospitals, newspapers, hotels, and many other things.

The people are known to be friendly and welcoming and it is a relatively safe city.
The temperature is usually in the mid-20's but can be humid during the rainy season.


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Where is Kampala, Uganda?

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda.
Uganda, also known as "the Pearl of Africa" is located is south east Africa and is bordered by Sudan, the DRC, Rwanda and Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial part of Lake Victoria which is the largest tropical lake in the world!

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What will you be doing there?

We will be doing a lot of the same things we do in Canada; discipleship groups, one-on-one discipleship, evangelism, organizing events, and hopefully even taking some students on a short-term missions trip to a neighbouring African country.

Vanessa will be staying at home with the kids and starting to home school Noah in junior and senior kindergarten as well as opening our home up to host small events, staff meetings, as well as reaching out to our neighbours and community.


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Wishing you...

a very merry Christmas to all of our friends and family! We love you and are so blessed by you.

staff training

On Monday we are heading up North to Joy Bible Camp for a week of staff training with the Ontario Campus for Christ staff members.
This is usually a great time to catch up with staff from other campuses as well as receive more valuable training. There is also usually a day to spend as a bit of a retreat recooperating from the busy semester.

We pray this is a week of good fellowship and refreshment for all of us as we head into a busy Christmas season.

Mid-November update!

So much has happened during these past couple months!

Summit has come and gone and so many students came out and were challenged in their faith! One student even came to know Christ personally during the course of the weekend!

Jamie led a student named Jake to Christ and continues to meet with him for follow up and continued growth!

Jamie was involved with the football team (Go Gryphons!) and has since made some good contacts from the team including the team captain!

Noah turned 2 years old and is discovering new words and abilities every single day!

Jude is almost 4 months and just learned how to roll over - both the boys are keeping Vanessa quite busy!

We are in the midst of preparing for the Christmas season and Winter Conference!

Stay tuned for more news from us in your mailboxes!

September Prayer Letter

Click on the picture to open our latest prayer letter!

He's Here!

Jude Calvin Strickland was born on July 31st at 1:44pm weighing 9lbs12oz and measuring 22.5 inches.

He is a pretty relaxed, easy going baby and we are slowly adjusting to being a family of four.
Noah loves being a big brother and is very sweet and helpful.
Here is us with Noah at 21 months of age and Jude at 11 days of age:


Thank you for your thoughts, prayers and warm wishes. We love and appreciate your support.

Waterloo Update

We're back in Guelph and are settling into our new place as we await the arrival of our second little boy (due in a few weeks!).
We've got a new prayer letter with an update on our time in Waterloo!
Enjoy!

LooP '09

Staff Orientation for Waterloo Project (LooP '09) begins this Thursday and we are excited to be taking part in this very different national project.

Waterloo Project is a project that focuses mainly on equipping the Campus Ministry through the gifts and talents of staff and students to provide resources for all campus staff and students to use - whether that be putting together an outreach package that contains everything a campus would need to put on a large outreach on their campus (banner designs, posters, talk outlines, bible studies, website details, etc.) or it could be reworking Bible studies or creating Bible studies that are meant for men in our ministry.

As this will be a project that is closer to home (we are only 30 minutes from Waterloo) there will continue to be costs for us (we will be moving to the dorms in Waterloo for the duration of the project) and we will need some special one-time gifts.

If you would like to partner with us in this way to provide for some of these needs, you can do so at: https://powertochange.com/corporate/canada/giving/support-staff/ online or call 1-800-563-1106 to give via credit card. If you'd like to mail a cheque you can do so at:

Jamie & Vanessa Strickland
6-8 Brant Ave.
Guelph, ON N1E 1E7

We'll be sending all our supporters a letter in the next week detailing our costs and what our exact needs are.

Thank you for your partnership! We love you and treasure your faithfulness to us through prayers and finances.

The Gospel Coalition

The Gospel Coalition was a great experience for our family!

Jamie enjoyed the conference with some other men on staff while Vanessa and Noah stayed with some friends in Chicago about 30 minutes away from the conference.

"It was great to get to hear from so many of my favourite preachers and authors.
During a message from John Piper, I was encouraged to overcome fear and passivity by remembering that God called me to proclaim the gospel from before the foundation of the world and He that called me will also provide what I need to do so."
- Jamie

"I didn't know what to expect from the week away from Jamie with 2 other Moms (one also pregnant and due at the end of July) and 2 other little kids but it turned out to be such a refreshing week full of laughter, conversation and a lot of much needed time with other women. Noah was such a champ in the car and absolutely adored playing and interacting with the other kids. What a blessing!"
- Vanessa

Please continue to pray for us as we finish off this semester, prepare for Waterloo Project and get ready for baby number 2 this summer!

Baby Strickland at 19 weeks

Stories from the Grads of '09 (Matt's story)

Jamie’s been working with Matt for a few years now and has seen him grow from a first year to this year’s key student leader of Campus for Christ. Matt had this to say when asked about his involvement with Campus for Christ:

“Over my past four years of involvement with C4C I have been convicted, challenged and equipped to actively be part of fulfilling the Great Commission for the rest of my life; the stakes have been set for me. I have also been built into by the staff and peers that I have met through C4C, gaining a solid biblical foundation for my life. Going to Scotland on project stretched me to share boldly with others. My leadership abilities have also grown through leading discipleship groups, prayer and being on the Servant team the past two years.

My fiancée Nicky and I plan on joining staff with C4C and I see this as a great opportunity to be part of fulfilling the Great Commission and the strategic nature of reaching the university. My heart for the church has continued to grow throughout my university career and I desire to see the Canadian church be intentional about reaching our country and world. God has also been growing my heart for families and particularly the marriage relationship more recently.

I would like to thank you for being a part of Jamie and Vanessa's support team. Without dedicated staff members like them, it would be much more difficult for the students here at the U of G to do ministry on our campus.”

Please be in prayer for Matt & Nicky as they finish the school year and prepare for their wedding and the rest of their lives together in ministry.

Stories from the Grads of '09 (Emily's story)

When Vanessa first started working with Campus for Christ at Guelph she met Emily, a first year student with spunk and immediately took to her. Vanessa was able to personally disciple Emily for 2 years before moving off campus to take on the role of full-time wife and mother. Three and a half years later, Emily is graduating. When asked about her involvement with Campus for Christ she was full of stories of how God has used C4C in her life. Here is just a bit of what she had to say:

“When I came to university I had no idea the journey God wanted to take me on during the 4 years to follow.

The most life-changing lesson I learned through Campus for Christ was that the Christian life wasn’t meant to be lived on my own strength, but through the power of the Holy Spirit working through me.

Without Campus for Christ and the staff and students who poured their lives into me during my past four years at university I would still be the way I was before- trying to live the Christian life on my own and experiencing frustration and failure instead of the peace and joy God intends for us.”

Emily has gone on several missions trips with C4C and is pursuing full-time ministry after she graduates this coming April. Pray for Emily as she transitions into post-education life and ministry.