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Updates from our trips to Kenya.

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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This is How you get a Road Improvement Project Done. Stabilizing a Key Bridge.

The Lyavo community in Kenya, home to the Lord’s Servants Home and School, is split by a water drainage creek. During the two annual rainy seasons, getting from homes on one side to the other side with the school, church, and clean water is only possible on one of two pedestrian bridges. These bridges were built over the past several years by joint Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) and Lyavo community partnership. One of the bridges was in need of stabilization against erosion caused by the last few rainy seasons which were particularly heavy.

Like the other community projects, water wells, and road improvements, MSM donates funds and technical guidance and the community provides all the labor. Now we are not talking a few skilled laborers spending weeks doing something….Here, many Men, Women, and Children pitched in and made this project happen in just a few days. The remote location meant the sand, rocks, and gravel all are transported by Mule cart, Wheelbarrow, and Human. I love the big turnout of people and investment of time to solve a community problem. God gets the glory for the funds, organization, and success. There was a community member who injured his hand on this project and we pray for his healing.

Pastor Training, Teaching, and Fixing in Kenya, Trip 45

Tony, Eldon, and Ray are home now after completing a 10 day trip to Kenya including Nairobi and the Lord’s Servants Home (LSH) that is supported by Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) since 2007. Those three guys are a team with Christ-like hearts for teaching, serving, and loving others. Among other goals, they partnered with Pastors Henry and Moses, Kenyan Missionaries from Nairobi for a week of local Pastor training and teaching at LSH.

20 area Pastors were trained as a follow-up program to a week long session last year.

Ray spent the week teaching a bible course at the Compel High School in nearby Webuye.

Tony met with the older children from LSH that have completed High School and are planning a future either with further education or training, or business starting. We stay in touch and advise and help where we can. Kenya is a bleak place economically for young adults. A news source reports that 3.9 million Kenyans under 35 years old with college degrees are out of work or underemployed. Depending who you ask, the general unemployment of trained people is over 1/3. Tragic. We hope to focus the kids towards job creation and careers in demand.

Eldon taught a daily Adult Discipleship Class. Always a favorite of the Church Members.

Last year there was considerable effort to train local ladies in sewing. A room with good sewing machines was set up and several ladies trained. Tony found a thriving sewing group that calls itself the LSH sewing club. Plans were discussed to expand this initiative to a larger place to allow more to participate.

One area needing repair attention was the playground of the school. New parts were brought from the US and work organized to fix the playground. This was a popular effort!

A second main area of repair need was the battery backup system for the power for lights. Grid power has outages several times a week. The storage batteries that supplies power during outages were well beyond their lifespan. New batteries and other electrical system repairs were made.

Several Community Water Supply Projects that have been supported by MSM were visited. 11 new projects were completed since the visit last year providing safe clean water for over 2000 families. The latest one is on the left. This initiative continues in 2025.

Thank you all for your prayers and support of the hands on efforts of MSM to improve the futures of the LSH kids, the health of the community, and spreading the Gospel in the Bwase region of Kenya. Praise God for that work since 2007.

Blessings,

Bob

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

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New School in Uganda is on the way!

Ground was excitedly broken on the Bwase Redeemed Junior School (BRJS) in October. This is a Christian Community School for Nursery through Grade 4 adjacent to the Child Redeemed Mission (CRM) Home. Construction is progressing is quickly on a 5 Room Class Building, a large Latrine, and moving the fence to encompass the school property. BRJS opening is end of January for Nursery, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade. Here are some photos…


5 Room Class Building progression…


Latrine, 10 doors….


Fence put up around the school and Child Redeemed Mission Home.