Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology and around my guest today is Brent Phillips who leads

Cherish Uganda with his wife Leah Cherish was formerly an orphanage and now functions as a spiritual

formation community center using medical education and family strengthening to reach

the community that they serve. If you remember from a couple weeks ago I had Brandon

Stiver on the podcast to talk about the difference between orphanage-based orphan care

versus family care carrying both for orphans and their families and he said

that Brent over at Cherish Uganda has done a fantastic job making that transition.

And so I've been talking with Brent learning about his ministry at Cherish, Uganda, and just

I'm really impressed with it.

Because I know there's, we all know it, right?

I mean, there's a lot of ministries or, you know, things that Westerners, white Westerners can

do in Africa that are maybe well intended but can actually produce long-term harm in the community and in the ministry work they're striving to do.

But there's people that are doing it well who have learned from

you know learned from making mistakes, learning how to do things well that are

actually bringing a positive effect on the communities that they seek to serve and

cherish Uganda is among the best ministries I've seen that are doing this.

So I'm actually going out to visit, I'm bringing a team, my wife and I'm bringing a team out to visit

Cherish Uganda, not to go tell them how to do ministry but they go to learn to serve alongside the people there and I'm excited to visit

Church Uganda among several other ministries that we'll see in Kenya and Uganda so you I'm excited for you to get to know Brent.

He's just done an amazing job doing ministry in Africa.

So please welcome the show for the first time.

You want to know Brent Phillips. Hey Brent, welcome to Theology and Ra for the first time.

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