Amy Compston poses with her grandfather, Gerald Womack, who was saved after watching a Billy Graham Crusade on television in 1965. "One day you will hear that Billy Graham has died. Don’t believe it. On that day I will be more alive than I [...]
Dicky Tiller and Amy Compston are all smiles. Dicky presented AFA with a $9,000 check from the Dicky and Judy Tiller Foundation for a new school. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa ASHLAND, Ky. (AFA) – Judy Tiller always told her husband Dicky [...]
Amy Compston dances with Lifepoint Church members at Sunday's music gala, By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa NJERU, Uganda – With the sun going down on us, we wrapped up an outdoor music gala filled with praise, worship and fun on Sunday, the [...]
Amy with Pastor Cyprian at the graduation ceremony on Saturday. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa NJERU, Uganda – In what may have been the grandest kindergarten graduation ever - and that’s not overstating the case by much - the El-Shaddai Primary and [...]
This Ugandan woman was crying out to God for help during our door-to-door evangelism on Friday. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa NJERU, Uganda – Amy For Africa experienced door-to-door Ugandan evangelism on Friday. Ten Muzungus followed the lead of Pastor Cyprian Ilukol [...]
Moses Waiswa, the AFA bus driver, unloads duffel bags from the roof of a van Tuesday. (Rob Barber photo) By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa JINJA, Uganda – Moses has been guiding the Amy For Africa mission team since our arrival in Uganda. [...]
Amy Compston and the AFA team was greeted with clapping and cheers. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa ISHAKA, Uganda – After serving up some 650 meals, passing out 360 gifts and watching and participating in a 5½-hour Ugandan school showcase program, what [...]
Pastor Blazio and Amy Compston in Ashaka. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa ASHAKA, Uganda – The alarm went off at 4:15 a.m. like a gong. A journey from Jinja to Ashaka was 45 minutes from starting. This mission trip is not about [...]
By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa NJERU, Uganda – Very little is the same in America as it is in Uganda. You can put church on that list too. It’s not different in a bad way, mind you. For instance, they sing and they dance [...]
Chris Compston with some of his Ugandan friends from an area in Jinja called "The Ghetto." By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa JINJA, Uganda – Hope came to a hopeless place on Saturday. Amy For Africa’s mission team came to the area in [...]