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By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa In this digital world, even our Bibles are available at our fingertips and in our pockets. Like everything else – books, newspapers, magazines – the preferred form is becoming the digital way. We are a society that has learned to count on our [...]

Amy Compston stands between Cyprian and Scovia Iliukol on Nov. 27, 2017. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa NJERU, Uganda – Today was a day for reuniting for the Amy For Africa families in America and Uganda. The smiles as long as the Nile River and the [...]

At left is Moses, our driver, and beside him is Cyprian Illukol, our pastor and school leader. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa ENTEBBE - When you’re on a journey some 8,000 miles away, there’s simply no easy way to get there. For the 24 hours it [...]

  Amy Compston addreeses students and staff at Summit Elementary in Ashland, Ky., on Nov. 16, 2017. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa SUMMIT, Ky. (AFA) – A northeastern Kentucky elementary school is partnering with Amy For Africa on its upcoming mission trip to Uganda. Summit Elementary [...]

Amy and Jarek at the Marshall University half marathon. By MARK MAYNARD / Amy For Africa HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Six-year-old Jarek Compston not only conquered the Marshall half marathon on Sunday, but he nearly doubled his fundraising goal for children in Uganda. Jarek, the son of Chris and [...]

By MARK MAYNARD, Amy For Africa ASHLAND, Ky. - Even before he takes the first step of the Marshall University Half Marathon on Nov. 5, Jarek’s Journey has already been a success. Jarek Compston, the 6-year-old son of Chris and Amy Compston of the Amy For Africa mission, has surpassed [...]