What is a disciple?

Once we give our hearts to the Lord Jesus does that automatically make us one of His disciples? As Christians we have a mighty duty to Him. The bible tells us it is not enough to attend church on Sunday mornings, go home and forget about Him until next Sunday when we meet with other believers again. It is so easy to get wrapped up in our every day lives that we push our Godly duties to the side, like devotion, praise even prayer. When we do this over time we find ourselves slipping further away from Him. Just like a marriage, how can we only go to our spouse once a week and speak with them and listen to them, having a meaningful relationship? Our Lord requires so much more! And we should be more than happy to accommodate! What is it that you can do during the week to show Your Savior how serious you are about serving Him? What "job" is He calling you to and what are you doing for Him, to help further the Kingdom of God? How can you be a better disciple for Christ?
The deeper I grow in Him, the more I am able to hear His voice telling me what to do and how to serve Him for today! I want this to be my prayer every morning of every day, Lord, what can I do for you and your people today, who can I pray for, who can I help? We are learning with three small boys, full time ministry, a busy home school schedule, full time 40 hour a week job, getting ready to begin, it is extremely difficult to find alone time for Christ! Or is it?! I have learned when you pray for time, you get it! There are always moments we can seize, beautiful moments we can spend with Him, times when we can just stop and listen, not for Him to answer our every need (He knows those before we even ask), but times when we can ask Him, "What can I do for you today Lord" asking with a pure servants heart!
If you want to become a disciple of our savior you can begin today! Develop the practice each day of spending time alone with Him. Pray for God to send others your way to minister to, others willing to commit themselves to Him by changing the world through evangelism and discipleship. The world desperately needs such a change, but only our Lord Jesus Christ has the power and plan to change men's hearts and nations!

He's Finally Here!

My midwife Chris

9lb 5oz and 22 inches long




Here he is.... Mr. Peter Joshua Bryant! Peter was born Tuesday, August 4th and has been such a joy in our lives! Thank you all for your prayers! Sam and Zach are totally in love with their new little brother and we are all having fun spoiling him as much as we can!

Uganda Prayer Requests

Thanks so much for all of your thoughts and prayers while we have been on our journey, preparing for Uganda.

In case any of you are qualified and are looking to do some international travel, Heritage International School (where Sam and Zach will attend) is in desperate need of a high school English teacher for this school year! The school term starts on August 10th, but they would take an English teacher whenever he/she can arrive. Because of other shortages, many teachers are taking on extra loads to teach these classes. Please pray that one could be found. Pray for the new volunteer teachers arriving to teach the upcoming year that they will adjust well to Uganda and be a blessing to their students.

We obviously appreciate and covet your prayers, but if you could also remember the folks that are already over in Uganda doing the work. Please pray for the physical & spiritual health of the missionaries & their families:
—Southern Uganda Missionaries:
• John & Beth Muehleisen
• Jonathan & Lisa Mayo (Jordan & Ethan)
(Jon and Lisa are our Field Directors)
• Kenneth & Delight Hopson (Kaleb, Austin, & Emilee)
(Ken and Delight are actually back in the states traveling)
• Lisa Fish
• Keith & Donna Bourne (Haley & Rachel)
• Jean Komline

—Northern Uganda Missionaries
• Billy & Joanna Coppedge (Elsie Jayne & Lucy)

—Missionary Disciples (First term missionaries like us)
• Jamie Friedrich
• The Hallahan Family
• The Rambo Family
• The Guilliams Family
• Pam Wilson
• The Ferg Family
• The Burke Family

Please continue to pray for..
• the field housing situation. With rent increases and more missionaries arriving, the need for affordable field housing continues to remain a need.

• the monthly pastoral trainings taking place in 10 different locations including 1 in Sudan. Over 110 pastors are being trained at 3 different levels.

• the youth pastoral training and all of the youth outreach ministries.

• our field directors as they continue to look at new areas for outreach. New ministries have already begun in South Sudan . We are now looking at ministry opportunities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 5 strategic locations within Uganda .

• 25 to 30 new missionaries to come along in the next 5 years to meet the needs of the expanding ministries.

• land to be purchased to build an Urban Center or to be able to purchase land with an existing building for multi-purpose ministries in Kampala. This Urban Center would be a place for the 600 plus students from 11 African countries in the University Ministry. It would be a multi purpose building for a church to reach professionals, a place to begin businesses or to rent out to other businesses to help fund the ministries of the church.
Please pray that God will provide the necessary resources to meet the needs within all of the ministry opportunities.
• Us that we will always have a Christ-like attitude and keep Him the center focus of our family and our ministry, and that we would be a light to those we come into contact with here and Uganda.

Stay Blessed,
Josh and Angela

Isaiah

Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest though the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much for all your prayers. We are still enjoying Fl (despite the nonstop rain right now) and are so excited to go tonight to a local church to hear a Ugandan Children's Choir who will be singing and dancing! The boys have brushed up on what little of their language they know and are so excited to greet the other children in their language! We are also excited about the fact that Josh may have a new job! We will know more tomorrow, but we know it is all in God's control and will meet all of our needs! Please continue to pray for us as we begin to make calls and pray about new partners in our ministry. We are hoping to fill our schedule back up very soon, but it has been a little slow going with the move and still awaiting our new little man "Peter" who should be here in just a few weeks! God bless you all!

Settling in!

Whew! This month has been a complete whirl wind! About a week in a half after all the moving and packing, we packed up again and head back to Ohio for some appointments we had already made and did not want to cancel! It was a long drive but well worth it! We had such wonderful visits with family and friends, and got to be a part of 4 amazing services to share about Uganda! God's grace is so amazing and His hand was on us the entire time! We had a scary moment with the pregnancy, but God completely lead us through it, and have made it back home to Fl. safe and the baby is doing great! This time it was harder to say good bye to family, knowing it will be months before we see anyone again, the boys did a little better than what I thought about their goodbyes, however had lots and lots of questions, and wanted to bring everyone back to Fl. with them! I could not be blessed with better little men then what the Lord has given! This was the boys fifth 20 hour car trip in 3 weeks, and they did amazing! Mommy and Daddy made it in one piece with all our hair intact (although it might be a little grayer!) :) Now we can get on our regular schedule and all settled in as we wait for our new little man to arrive in the next few weeks! Josh is currently looking for a new job to help make ends meat, and we found out the Doctors and my midwife will not want me to start my part time job until after the baby is born. We are so excited to start working with others here in Fl. and involving them in what God is doing in Uganda. We have recently spoke with head quarters (WGM) and have learned our release is based on current monthly support. We have just reached our first goal of 1,000$ per month in faithful monthly partnerships! Thank you all so much for partnering with us in this ministry. Please keep us in your prayers as we continue pressing on for the remaining goal of 7,000$ per month! If you would like to become more involved in missions or what God is already doing in Uganda, please contact us at josh.bryant@wgm.org Thank you all for your prayers through this time of amazing transition in our lives, we have surely felt them. God bless you all!

Prayer Request!

Hello everyone! This is our last week to get packed up, we are pulling out and heading down to St. Petersburg on Sunday morning! Thank you all for your prayers. We had fun at church Sunday, after the evening service the church served pizza, ice cream and cake so we could have a time of fun and fellowship with our dear brothers and sisters that we have worshiped with for 12 years now! We are going to miss everyone so much, but we feel God has already given us an amazing new home church in Tampa! I have a specific prayer request I would like you to pray about if you would. With my previous 2 pregnancies I developed preeclampsia and toxemia and with my last one, Zachary, it got very dangerous and very scary! My doctor said I have a 50% chance of developing it again and even sooner this time. Since we found out about this baby we have been praying and standing against this disease and we have had an amazing pregnancy! I am 29 weeks now and moving to Fl. and leaving my "comfort zone" with my doctor and familiar hospitals had made me a little nervous. We have been praying about a new doctor and which hospital to deliver at and we have decided to go with a midwife at an amazing birthing center there in St. Petersburg! I am trusting in God that all will go well and the preeclampsia will stay away, so we can have a healthy and natural delivery. If you could please lift us up in prayer concerning this I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you all for your continued prayers! We will keep you updated!