Trip 18, SOH Uganda

Four of us, Jon, Emily, Rick, and myself are in route to the Stream of Hope Home in Byasi, Uganda.  This is Jon’s 3rd trip and first for his daughter Emily as well as for Rick.  The team will be together for two weeks then all return except I will stay an additional two weeks.  Between us we have nearly 700 pounds of stuff to bless the kids with and complete our projects.  We will arrive there Saturday afternoon.

We are bringing over 1000′ of heavy wire, 4 electrical boxes, security lights for outside, lights for inside of the new girls dorm, a fan for the kitchen, a folding aluminum ladder, plumbing valves for water collection, tools, books and toys for the kids, a laptop and 20 solar powered audio Bibles for the Teso ministry, and a keyboard for the church at SOH.  We have a lot planned and look forward to being with the kids and staff.

Pastor Paul’s prayer request is for rain.  It has not done so in months, even though it is the time for rain.  The well there I see not functioning because of the drought.

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Emily, Jon, Rick, Bob, and 700 pounds of luggage

New Girls Dorm – Moved In :-)

The girls moved into their new dorm home last week.  It is an incredible upgrade from where they have been staying for the last few years, which was the original unfinished house on the property.  The boys moved into their new building in 2015.  It is exciting because now all the kids are in quality, clean, and equal accommodations and capacity is expanded to allow SOH to begin accepting additional kids in 2017.

We will be installing lights inside and outside, gutters and rain water collection, curtains, and personal storage, and concrete pads between the buildings during the MSM visitation trip in the 2nd half of January, 2017.  This will complete the building.  Total cost will be less than $50,000 for a 10 room building…amazing.

There are 40 children being raised at SOH, 15 will be at boarding High Schools and Trade Schools starting in January.  With this addition, SOH can increase to a potential of 60 children living on site, God willing and providing.

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New Girls Dorm – SOH. Update 2

We just completed the 2nd month of construction on the new Girls Dorm at Stream of Hope Home in Uganda with good progress made.  It is under roof now.  Window and door fitting and the plastering of the walls inside and out is commencing.  After plastering the walls, ceiling, and floors, painting is all that will be left to finish by the contractor.  We should see the building finished within the next 4 to 6 weeks.  The girls will be moved in then during our next trip in January, we will install lights and gutters.

We started this project in faith and need and without full funding.  The total cost of the building is a very economical $50,000.  If you are led to be part of this project please contact us at bob@missionservants.org.

Here are a few photos of what happened in month two….

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New Girls Dorm – SOH

We launched the project to build a new Girls Dorm at Stream of Hope Home in Uganda in June.  The project was needed for a number of reasons.  The original house that came with the property is too small for the girls and needs renovations to meet the Ugandan Children’s Home Standards.  The new building is a copy of the Boys Dorm and will provide space to increase the number of children that we can serve.  This building will be completed in early October.

We started this project in faith, having no choice, and with 1/2 of the funding.  If you are led to be part of this project please contact us at missionservants.org.

Here is a months progress in reverse….

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Trip 17, Update 5, LSH Kenya

3 different waves of 11 of us arrived well in Kenya almost 2 weeks ago.  I haven’t been able to post much but I’ll catch up on the great things that have been going on.

Today we completed a major project….playground for the Lord’s Servants Academy.  We brought some metal bending equipment with us and after a week of welding, concrete, and assembly, we opened the playground to an eager crowd.  The approval rating was high.  This is the only playground for miles…and the best I have seen.  It is for the LSA kids but is open to all kids in the community after school.

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