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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.

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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

New Children Joining CRM

When the Child Redeemed Mission (CRM) Children’s Home in Uganda is able to accept new kids, I feel that prayers are being answered. Just imagine, a few days ago sleeping on the ground, having little to eat, no medical care or school, living ignored or worse each day, being a burden that can’t be carried any longer by the adults in your life…but now living in a happy beautiful place with dozens of kids, a bed to sleep in, 3 meals a day, people glad that you are there, and they are getting ready for you to go to school. I chose to believe that the adults in these kids lives do pray for something better for these kids and see CRM as an answer to that prayer.

First few days at CRM for Fionah, Dan, and Innocent Mutekanga.

How do new kids come to CRM? ….. The Social Workers at CRM are in contact with the District Child Officer (DCO). His job is to monitor the district and address children who are vulnerable, mistreated, and neglected. This has to be a daunting and overwhelming task. Usually neighbors report these children. Most kids are called orphans and have lost at least one parent to death and the other to inability or unwillingness to support them. When openings arise at CRM because kids finish High School the potential children needing to be removed from their situation are reviewed by the Social Workers and accepted if it is best for the kids. CRM is one of only a few registered and approved Children’s Homes in the district. The criteria to become so is steep and many many homes have been closed in Uganda over the past 5 years, over 90% of them. CRM is a special place…. a unique blend of efficient institution with a safe family atmosphere and a happy place to play, learn, and grow as a child. It is a place where Christian love is practiced, the Gospel believed, and kids are expected to grow up and have hopes and dreams.

Six new children arrived while we were at CRM in January. I love meeting new kids and knowing their lives are turning in a better direction. My favorite memories of them during the trip was noticing other kids leading them around, showing them things, playing with them, and making sure they were ok. I told the CRM Director Emma and Social Worker Gorretti that I was impressed at the love the kids show the new kids and know it is because an atmosphere of love and family is strong throughout CRM. I’m so appreciative for that!

Most of these kids will start at the new Child Redeemed Mission Primary School that just opened and will be supported through High School and usually somewhat beyond by MSM. The children’s extended family will be encouraged to be involved, especially as the kids become teenagers. Family connections are important and will be a foundation for the kids as they enter adulthood eventually.

Caring for these kids is possible by the prayers and support of donors. It cost about $50 per month on average to care for, clothe, feed, and educate a child. Thank you to those that are helping. Please pray about helping if this touches you.

Here are the entry bios for the 6 children that joined in January.

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Living at CRM…..

Yes, CRM is a special place. Thank you. Praise the Lord!

Bob

Mission Accomplished – Trip 44 Uganda

The 6 of us returned home earlier this week after accomplishing our goals. The Child Redeemed Mission Primary School (CRMPS) has furniture and start up supplies, the electrical system was upgraded at Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM), a solar power system and new playground was installed at Rock View Primary School (RVPS), a 3 Day discipleship class was held, and many smaller repairs and projects were completed.

We welcomed 7 new kids to CRM and brought a few hundred pounds of kids clothes and soccer gear.


All the kids are ready to start schools on Monday and CRMPS is ready to open February 3rd. I’ll share more about this in an upcoming post.


I wish everyone could visit CRM and the other MSM ministry efforts. They are special…warm loving blessings. Those of us that are sent by the rest of us are the fortunate ones. Thank you all for your prayers and support to make this work what it is. And…Thank God!!!

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Trip 44 to Uganda is set for January 15, 2024

Six men will travel to the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM) in Kamuli, Uganda and serve all of the many ministry efforts established by Mission Servants Ministry in the area there. One main priority is to help insure that the new Bwase Redeemed Junior Elementary School (BRJS) is ready to open in early February. A 5 room class building and latrine are under construction. In addition to finishing the buildings…staffing, registration of pupils, curriculum materials, and all furniture needs to be completed.

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It looks like there is a lot of work to be done but by the 2nd week of February there will be 3 classes of children learning instead of staying home.

These are some of the Projects we plan to conclude on the trip…

  • 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 efforts…

  • 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 initiatives…

  • 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.

I will continue to post regularly on this trip and progress of projects. Please pray for our protection, provisions, and planning. May God be honored.

While praying for us, if you are led to be part of it, please jump to more information on our website to find out how.

Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to you, Bob

PS. Here is a brief summary of what MSM did in 2024…