We put a video together to help tell the story better about the Stream of Hope Home in Nawantale, Uganda. Click here to the video on YouTube. I think this is just a beginning. We have lot’s of work to do at this home but I am convinced that these children would have a desperate and dangerous future without God’s provisions and the service of everyone to this mission. It is a great story just starting…
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Meet some kids from the SOH Orphanage…
We have loaded individual photos of many of the kids living at the Stream of Hope Home in Nawantale, Uganda on the Mission Servants website. Click here for photo gallery.
These kids are fully supported with food, housing, medicine, clothing, and education. This is a newly formed orphanage and has many needs to improve conditions of health and welfare. We are praying for provisions to meet this need. Please look to the website, these blog updates, or contact us for more information.
Some of the SOH Kids
Stream of Hope Home – Uganda added as a supported ministry of Mission Servants
After prayerful consideration and seeing first hand the need and heart at the Stream of Hope for the African Child (SOHAC) Home in Nawantale, Uganda, we decided to add them as a supported ministry. See previous blog. I am excited that we will be working in partnership with Rev. Kathy Bailey and Friends at Serving the Lord Ministries in Quinebaug, CT to serve SOHAC in Jesus’ name.
We have provided some funding already for weekly food for the 46 children currently at the home, medical assistance, and given direction on a few projects to improve the health conditions at the home. Improvements are being made to the kitchen shelter and an agreement made with the landlord to allow him to improve the latrine and finish the floors in the house. Pastor Isabirye Paulous is a loving and committed man to these children and he has a great team of people focused on them. Some of them are in this photo below…Pastor Isabirye is 2nd from the right in the back row.
Needs exist, beyond regular food and supplies, to help the kids with school uniforms and school fees. They also need better cooking equipment, food storage, water storage, beds, bedding, mosquito nets, pest control, clothes washing supplies, and clothing. They do have faith that God provides.
Being a supported ministry of Mission Servants means that we have the ability to funnel funds and support to them and will be providing direction on improving the safety, health, and quality of the home with a long-term vision for the children to fullfill God’s purpose in their lives. You will see that some web pages and information has been added to the website here. Much more information will be added soon on the website and in blogs.
Thank you for your prayers for God’s direction, guidance, protection, and provisions.
46 Precious Ugandan Children…
We met this brave new mercy ministry…an orphanage that Greg, Moses, and I visited and served in Uganda. Through friendships that God put together over the years, I was introduced to Pastor Isa and the Stream of Hope for the African Child (SOHAC) ministry in a small town about 75 miles north of Jinja, Uganda called Nawantale. It was a brutal trip to get there from Kitale, nearly 10 hours total by vehicle plus a border crossing.
Pastor Isabirye Paulous and his team started a church and children’s home because of the needs in this community for spreading the Gospel and for children to be defended. Traditional worship and belief in the spirit world is common. An undefended child is at risk for exploitation in many ways. The church building is a simple structure with open sides and grass roof but full of joyful worship. It is the only church in the village center. We spent a great Sunday giving messages and in worship with them.
Stream of Hope worship
The kids and few caretakers are existing in a very cramped and basic way. They can get clean water at a community well 1/2 mile away but all the children wake at 3:00am to stand in line at the hand pump so they can get water for the day, before walking over 3 miles to school.
Village hand pump
Cooking and facilities need improving.
Kitchen facility
Sleeping quarters are safe but too cramped and on an unfinished floor with no mosquito nets.
20 boys sleep in this room
SOHAC funding is inadequate and they are just surviving. We brought them medicine to treat the children for intestinal worms and diarrhea, we left some mattresses and mosquito nets, we bought a 2 week supply of food, we performed field dentistry and removed many teeth, and we purchased school books and supplies so the kids could go to school. They were so excited to go to school that they did not sleep.
Administering de-worming medicine
2 weeks of food and supplies
Pray with us for the guidance and provisions for SOHAC Ministry, for the health and well-being of the kids, for God to be honored in all things, for the lost of Nawantale to see Jesus in the flesh through this work and wish to know Him, and for us to know how God wants us to proceed as Mission Servants Ministry to serve this mission.
Mission Servants Ministry 
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