During his seventh meeting as board chair on Jan. 28, Lane County Commissioner David Loveall opened the session by saying, “ Robert’s Rule of Order protocol is ‘God before country.’ I’d like to say that my late son changed his name at an orphanage in Africa, a handful of years before we adopted him, to Biyinzika, which means: with God, all things are possible.”

It was one of several meetings where Loveall used language consistent with Christian ideology and prayer. Loveall and his wife, Nita Loveall, are the founders of Three Sixteen Ministries International, a Christian nonprofit that builds churches and other infrastructure projects in Uganda.

Loveall continued, adding, “It’s been said recently that what our nation does is the impossible, so I declare this blessing today that we do b

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