Category Archives: Mission Trips

2024 Quick Summary for Mission Servants Ministry

This is a quick post of sincere Gratitude and encouragement. 2024 was filled with amazing projects and efforts that lovingly and eternally impacted our target communities and children in Kenya and Uganda. Thank you for your prayers and support for these awesome things and for standing with us in eager service into 2025. Your funding is the sole means of meeting these levels of need. All I am reporting is accomplished on a roughly $250,000 budget per year. More information and how to support here…

MSM meets the complete needs of roughly 70 children at the two homes in Kenya and Uganda and higher education support for many more of among the older graduated children. Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) and Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM). All workers employed are nationals. MSM also supports the children’s Primary and High schools through fees, projects, and other assistance.

3 Mission Trips were made to 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 not available in country, train and encourage, and love the children and people in our sponsored homes, schools, and communities.

11 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 access to at least 100 families, often more than 200 per site.

A security fence was completed around Rock View Primary School (RVPS). This provides important security for the school property and boarding Children.

A new Kitchen was built and completed at RVPS allowing for growth at the school up to 500 kids and a more efficient cooking.

A new Junior Elementary School was birthed. The Bwase Redeemed Junior School (BRJS) is under construction and will open in February of 2025 to serve the community near CRM. Nursery, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 will open. This will allow small kids who can’t reach the far off schools to get a quality educational start and twice daily meals.

Assisted a new medical clinic, The Nisaya Clinic start up in a small trading center near to the RVPS school to serve people previously needing to travel over 15 miles to find health services. Support, technical assistance and loans have allowed them to obtain lab equipment and set up a maternity ward.

Established a unique Home Schooling intervention program for 11 slow learning children from the CRM Home. This will help insure kids are not getting left behind educationally. 2 new Children joined the CRM home.

Kingdom work is a priority by encouraging and partnering with the local churches, Bwase Redeemed Church and Lyavo Bible Church. Churches have been planted, Widows have been served, Bedding provided for kids, People are being Baptized, a local Witch has found Jesus and burned his witch tools. The Teso People Group Evangelism teams were supported through technical equipment and training.

What is planned in 2025?…Open the BRJS school, 2 Trips in Jan., more community projects, new children join CRM, and see our supported children grow into loving, healthy, educated, motivated, and productive citizens. We are thankful for your prayers and support, whether monthly or one time. They are answers to our prayers and necessary to our work.

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

Bob Hillebrand

How to help…

Trip Planned to Uganda in January

Can you imagine ….helping to open a new school for a community full of kids that for most was not going to be able to go to school? ….encouraging many children including endangered ones fresh to life in a home? ….leaving behind vast improvements in facilities and lives? ….delivering tools and supplies that are needed for progress? ….being blessed in sharing the Gospel, the Love of Christ, through our love and efforts? Please pray for us and about joining us in person or in support.

MSM Trip 44

This  trip allows for 7 days in the field and focuses on the primary area of the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM) in Kamuli, Uganda.  A team is needed to visit and support projects and activities sponsored by Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) at CRM, Promise Primary School (PPS), Rock View Primary School (RVPS), Bwase Redeemed Church (BRC) and community, Nisaya Medical Clinic (NMC), and the new to open Bwase Redeemed Junior School (BRJS).  Seeking men and women to serve. The tentative timing is a departure on Thursday, 16 January and arriving home on Sunday, 26 January.  Cost will be approximately $2,000.

The size and skill makeup of the team can determine the final goals, but current priority items are….

Projects…

  • Leading a team of local carpenters to build 35 tables, 60 benches, and other furniture for the new to open BRJS school.
  • Leading a team of carpenters to build 6 picnic tables for CRM dinner shelter.
  • Installing a water line and access tap from the main CRM water tank out to the BRJS school.
  • Installing 3 new solar panels into the CRM solar power grid.
  • Leading a team in moving a playground at RVPS and installing 6 Teeter Totters.
  • Several plumbing and electrical repair issues among the locations.

Human Service…

  • Welcoming several new children to live at CRM.
  • Children’s activities and ministry.
  • Sharing in church and supporting community ministry.
  • Review and support the Home Schooling for challenged learners program.
  • Visit and support Nisaya Clinic in establishing a new maternity service.

Mission Support…

  • Support in establishing the initial staff, materials, and curriculum at BRJS.
  • Support in implementing the initial computerized student registration and ledger system at BRJS.
  • Transporting needed tools and supplies for all MSM efforts.
  • Review and support several current microloans to Kids and partner organizations.
  • Add to the CRM children and adult spiritual library.
  • Leave support for initiatives that will take place after the team departs and preparations for the next future trip.

This trip is an opportunity to visit a well established and active ministry and interact with children and local church and ministry members, work on projects and in loving service.

Please contact Bob Hillebrand with questions and interest.  704-576-4646, bob@missionservants.org

Elderly Outreach in Bwase, Uganda

The Bwase Redeemed Church (BRC), home church of the Child Redeemed Mission (CRM) Home is very community serving oriented and you can feel the Holy Spirit’s love there. They have a special heart for the elderly and widows in the area and have accomplished some amazing works to serve them. Greg worked with them on a project to target very needy elderly people and bring them blankets and food. This work was through the BRC church completely and with church and CRM children volunteers. The joy this church has in serving, discipling, and planting is heartwarming. The joy the kids from CRM have in helping in Jesus’ name is priceless.

The Bwase Redeemed Church, serving the kids at Child Redeemed Mission Home.

Here are a few videos of some loving hands and feet.

How did they get by before? New Kitchen. Trip 42 Update 4

Serving breakfast and lunch to 400 plus kids and staff from a kitchen with a collapsed roof and wall with a big pot sitting on 3 rocks over a fire…..

Rock View Primary School (RVPS) is located in a rural village called Kasolwe, Uganda. Mission Servants Ministry has assisted RVPS with needed facilities and improvements for 5 yyears now since they are the main source of education for kids in that area. The last project, completed earlier this year, was the fence, Guard house and front gate. During this trip, meetings and discussions on final design and location allowed for ground to be broken on a new kitchen.

Somehow RVPS managed to feed over 400 kids and staff with this as their kitchen. Porridge for breakfast and a hot lunch is a main part of the diet for these school kids.

We modeled the new kitchen on the structure MSM built at another school, Promise Primary School (PPS). Improvements in number of wood fired cookers, storage, ventilation, and lightings were built in with the benefit of the experience at PPS. This project will be complete by December and ready for the next school year beginning in January. As with all MSM projects, 100% of materials, labor, and contracting are local and benefitting the community economy.

Thank you for your prayers and support of Mission Servants Ministry and our mission to help local national Christian organizations that serve God and Children to solve roadblock problems so they can do more in their communities. To God be the praise, glory, and honor.

Ugandan Success Story. Trip 42 Update 3

Beatrice, mother of 6 including 4 young ones, homeless, abandoned by her husband for a girl in her teens, no skills or education, no English, in shock she stared at the floor for days. That was the low point 10 years ago that Beatrice worked from and was raised up. Beatrice just moved into a brick house that she built on land she bought from working at CRM for 10 years as the main cook and matron, saving diligently. She is a Believer, joyful hard worker, great cook, loves to learn new recipes, and is a loving pleasant person. Beatrice loves MSM visitors…We have to go find her when we leave from a trip, to say goodbye, because she will be crying somewhere off by herself.


Greg and Beatrice

Beatrice’s New House

Her husband in 2014, Moses Chukka, was one of the volunteer workers that Mission Servants Ministries (MSM) began working with in the early days of Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM), then called Stream of Hope Home (SOH). He and his family were living so poorly while he was working to serve SOH and the 46 kids there, that I suggested they move into SOH. I didn’t dream that he had a teenaged girlfriend in the community and would abandon his family almost immediately.

We didn’t know Beatrice and it was difficult to communicate but it was decided that we would love and lift her up, welcome her children to the home, teach her how to be a cook and matron, and let Jesus heal her. Over time the cook and matrons that she assisted left and Beatrice assumed sole responsibility and does really well. Her children are believers, grateful, and love school. One of the older ones is married and the youngest is in grade 5, while two others are in High School.

In the African culture, she was a throw away. Her children were essentially unsupported orphans. Not in the eyes of Jesus and his children at CRM, she is family, a valuable CRM staff member, and a beautiful workpiece of Christ. Praise Him!