Category Archives: Mission Trips

2025 Recap of Blessings Through Mission Servants Ministry.

This is a limited recap written with Gratitude and excitement for God’s work through Mission Servants Ministry (MSM). 2025 was filled with several amazing construction projects and efforts that impact our target communities and children in Kenya and Uganda. Thank you for your prayers and support for these awesome efforts and for standing with us in eager service into 2026. Your funding is the sole means of meeting these levels of need. What you will see is accomplished on a roughly $250,000 budget per year. A tiny amount in the domain of world ministries. This is possible because we are 100% corporately volunteer and have zero staff that is not African and on site. All labor is locally sourced or often volunteer in cooperation with community groups. For MSMs history, 19 years now, money is a tool that we are efficiently using and make much happen. More information on how to join in support is here…

High School CRM kids ready to begin the year.

CRM Kids and staff.

MSM meets the complete needs of 45 formerly vulnerable children where they live full time at the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM) in Uganda and part support for roughly 75 more that attend Trade Schools, High Schools, or are older graduated children starting off as adults from Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) in Kenya and Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM). MSM also supports from a capital improvement standpoint, building infrastructure and improvements, four elementary schools with a total enrollment of over 1200 children. Community assistance with vital resource projects are another area of ministry with MSM funding improvements on 17 water sources in 2025 impacting thousands of families.

A new Junior Elementary School, Child Redeemed Mission Primary School (CRMPS) was built and founded by MSM. It is adjacent to the CRM home. The CRMPS school opened in February in a new 5 room class building to serve the community near CRM. Two Nursery classes, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 provided education for 91 students, most of which would not have gone to school at all. The goal is to target young low income kids who can’t reach the far off schools to get a quality educational start and give them twice daily meals.

Kindergarten graduation to Grade 1. First Class, 2025.

This year we added a 2nd 5 room class building and will expand the offered classes to Grade 5. we plan on enrollment to be near 200 for 2025.

In order to attract quality teachers to a rural school, quality housing must be provided. Land was purchased and a 10 room teachers compound was built. Nice private rooms, latrine and wash house, a social shelter, garden space, and solar power for lights was constructed.

Three Mission Trips were made to visit the projects, homes, and schools in Kenya and Uganda. These are crucial to organize activities that go on year round, bring materials and serve in ways requiring contact, train and encourage, and love the children and people in our sponsored homes, schools, and communities. One trip in August featured a medical outreach for the community that served hundreds with medical, dental, and optical. The need for several surgeries were identified and needed procedures were funded.

That is life during a trip to the CRM Home. Pure joy!

17 Community Clean Water Access Projects were completed in Kenya near the LSH home. Typically these involve securing a shallow well site from contamination and installing a closed hand pump to provide clean and safe access to at least 100 families, often more than 300 per site. These projects are self sustaining from a maintenance standpoint as committees are elected and small funds collected to save for maintenance and help with future communities to start projects.

Before….

After….

A trip to Kenya in January supported a Pastors conference at the Lyavo Bible Church and Lord’s Servants Home as well as training programs for High Schoolers and Women. These annual conferences provide needed training and encouragement for local Pastors of small churches. Over 30 attended and were positively impacted with God’s word for their ministries.

What is planned in 2026?…Expand the CRMPS school from Grade 1 to Grade 5, a Trip in Jan. to Kenya to support a Pastors conference and another in May to Uganda, more community projects, 12 new children joining CRM, and see our supported children continue to grow into loving, healthy, educated, motivated, and productive citizens. We are also planning and budgeting for future needed projects including a kitchen and front wall/gate for CRMPS, teachers and student dorms at Rockview Primary School, and providing Widows homes in Bwase community. We are thankful for your prayers and support, whether monthly or one time. They are answers to our prayers and necessary to our work. 

Please pray about joining us. Prayer, focused efforts on the ground, and efficient use of funds is our secret but we are fueled by people who enjoy seeing impactful things happen in lives of children and communities for the Glory of Jesus. 100% of our funding is by individual donors. We use what we are given for our stated goals of vulnerable child support, education of the needy, sharing the love of Christ, and community projects.

If you are led to a monthly support or a year end gift, please click How to help…

Thank you very much and may God bless your Christmas and New Year.

Bob Hillebrand – Director, Mission Servanrts Ministry

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Expanding (Quickly) a Community School. Phase II of Child Redeemed Mission Primary School.

In January, 2025 Phase I of CRMPS School was opened including Pre-K through Grade 1. This school is to serve the smallest children in the community around the Child Redeemed Mission home and 91 kids are attending, most of which likely would not attend school otherwise due to the challenging distance to walk to the closest school. Our plan in Phase II was to add a grade each year until Grade 5, a 4 year plan. It WAS the plan….

Excitingly, MSM has decided to accelerate plans and add 4 classes in January of 2026 and complete the school up to Grade 5. The team that just returned from Uganda, finalized plans and broke ground on the 2nd new 5 room class building and completed the 10 room Teachers Housing Compound. The class building will be completed in January. Desks, tables, and shelves are to be built by then and teachers hired.

We anticipate initially adding over 100 additional students in January for the 2026 school year from the community. CRMPS will provide a level of quality not seen in neighboring government schools by enjoying smaller classrooms, hot lunches, great facilities, pass by merit standards, and degreed teachers.

The reasons that we prayerfully chose to accelerate the schedule were to A. Accelerate the full range of quality school classes to the community, B. Offer a more intimate education to the CRM children, many of whom come to the home behind academically, C. Reduce the cost of sending CRM kids to other primary schools. D. Make it easier to take in new vulnerable children from the government.

It is a real dream come true to build a school and see so many kids getting a solid start in life. The cost for the 5 room class building and furniture is roughly $50,000….unbelievably little. Praise God that we were provided the means to do that. Operating costs are initially at a deficit to the affordable school fees that are asked of the parents. Please prayerfully consider helping MSM supplement funds so that CRMPS can operate serving low income families until the numbers of enrolled increase.

You can help here… missionservants.org

Medical Outreach in Uganda, Trip 46 Part 2.

The community neighboring the Child Redeemed Home (CRM) and School (CRMPS) is medically needy and without a clinic in the area. The team organized for a one day outreach and brought in local Doctors, Nurses, Dentist, Pharmacist, in addition to our own eye Dr. Randall.

560 people were served with testing for illnesses like Malaria, medicine, Ultrasounds for the pregnant, reading glasses, diagnoses and referrals for eye glasses and cataract surgery, and dental issues. The clinic was held in the CRMPS School building which gave the school an opportunity to be showcased to the community. The local church, staff of CRM and CRMPS, and many older children from CRM volunteered. Ed even entertained a large group.

We love these opportunities to share the love of Jesus in a practical and needed way.

Team 46 to Uganda, Child Redeemed Home and Primary School. Part 1

A veteran team of Greg, Rick, Randall, Ed, and first timer Allan are in Uganda serving at the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM) and Primary School (CRMPS). This is the second trip this year and crucial to continue progress on the construction and expansion of the CRMPS school. They brought over 750 pounds of tools, materials, school educational aids, books, quilts, reading glasses, and fun stuff.

There are a number of projects that they have on their plate. The first one is installing solar panels and power system to provide lighting to the newly finished Teachers Dormitory and Compound.

More posts to come about the playground, Community Medical Outreach, new classroom building ground breaking, and other things.

Some say we go to Uganda for the Stoneys (a strong Ginger soda) but we love building a positive future for kids, sharing the love of Jesus Christ, and seeing Him glorified in the Bwase community.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

A Needed New School Opens in Uganda

Just a dream a year ago, kids that would not be learning, ARE! After years of discussions, praying, and then building and equipping, the Child Redeemed Mission (CRMPS) Primary School opened early this month. The vision was to have an early education school in the community of Bwase, near the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM) so that the youngest children in the community can go to a quality walkable distance school. This includes the 7 new children that were recently welcomed into CRM. The established Primary Schools are too far away and many young kids simply do not start school until they are big enough to walk far enough.

Phase I of CRMPS involved the construction of a 5 room Class building, a latrine, furniture, and a security fence on a portion of property purchased and added to the CRM property.

During the last mission trip in January, desks, tables, and benches were made….

200 pounds of teaching tools, books, and school supplies were brought with us from the US, donated by teacher friends and Hickory Grove Baptist School.

Meet the CRMPS staff…From left, Beatrice, Headteacher Jeninah, Beatrice, Eria, and Joan

And the classes…Nursery, Pre-school, Kindergarten, and Grade 1.

It was a huge effort requiring many people, prominently Emma, Director of CRM, Jeninah, Headteacher of CRMPS, and many others to hold community meeting, construct the facilities, work through the government approval process, hire a great staff, register and test incoming kids, build furniture, and assemble supplies. Kids in the rural community of Bwase, Uganda now get to learn during the early important childhood years and start a process to having a better future. Praise God!

We sure enjoyed doing this blessed and rewarding project and thank everyone for their support, encouragement, and prayers!! It was 100% donor funded to construct and open. The goal is for 100% operational costs supported by the modest fees. The objective is a quality education in a Christian environment with two meals, backed up by an involved Parent Teacher Organization.

Hang on…Phase II and Phase III are coming for the school to grow to Grade 4 over the next 3 years and educating nearly 250 children.