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About Hope For the Future
 | Gary Short Gary and Louise planted and pastored a church in Seattle, Washington for eleven years and pastored Safe Harbor Foursquare church in Anacortes for ten years. Gary has served on the boards of relief and development organizations, preached in many denominational settings, and taught both Christian and business groups on leadership development. His insight into developing-world countries and pastoral issues has developed over the last 30 years of involvement with ministry to the persecuted church in such places as the former Soviet Union and Eastern Block countries, Mozambique, Uganda and the Sudan. Gary has been ministering in Sudan since 1998. Gary has also lead leadership conferences throughout Africa. |
 | Louise Short Louise Short speaks on behalf of Hope for the Future in churches in the west and leads the ministry combining her experience in relief and development, networking with other ministries, and passing on her love for the Lord and evangelism passion to young leaders. Louise Short has spent the past 20 years working fulltime in management for the African Children’s Choir, a NGO helping children in crisis in Africa. For 10 years she was the East Africa field coordinator, and worked as liaison between the ACC and its partner African NGOs, as well as a missions pastor in the US. She has been involved with Sudan since 1993 and because of her passion for ministry there, she now focuses her efforts fully on Sudan. Louise and her husband Gary have been leading teams to Sudan since 1998. Louise’s experience has given her wisdom in working in the African cultures, in long term ministry to war traumatized children, in the needs of the persecuted, in relief and development, and in church planting. Louise Recently left her position with the African Children's Choir to work full time for Hope For The Future efforts in Southern Sudan. |
 | William Asili William Asili is our Central Equtoria state ministry coordinator. He manages the base in Kajo Keji, and trains and oversees pastors in that region. He is the overseer of church planting and church life there and moves from church to church helping pastors grow and develop in their ministry. Wiliam came to know the Lord while overhearing teaching as he oversaw a building project where we were meeting. His gentle spirit, wisdom, and passion for the Lord are a great joy and asset in the ministry. |
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 | Morris Bukenya We have known Morris and Christine Bukenya since 1987; Morris pastors a large church in Kampala Uganda and is the overseer of the Eden Revival Churches, a group of about 70 churches in East Africa. He has been deeply involved in our ministry to Sudan since 1998. Pastor Bukenya's leaders have been instrumental by training our emerging leaders in conducting village outreach festivals. We greatly appreciate the advisory role that Morris fills, helping us understand the culture and politics. |
 | Ronald Kasenge Ronald Kasenge the worship training director of the Eden Churches has responded to God's call to help us develop worship leaders from among those in our training programs. Ronald is helping to work with the evangelism team and working with the discipleship training and mentoring ministry. Ronald is not only a great worship trainer he is an outstanding shaper of character in young men. |
 | Fred and Susan Bowdy The Bowdy’s are an indispensable part of Hope For The Future's ministry in Sudan. Although neither of them has been to Southern Sudan yet they do our financial accounting, newsletter and booklet production, and even put on an annual Sudan banquet for our donors. Fred and Susan are amazing people who work tirelessly behind the scenes helping to keep the administrative side of the ministry moving forward. |
