Category Archives: Updates from Uganda

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…

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…

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.

BIG NEWS….MSM Birthing a new school in Uganda

Private school educated children in general perform at twice the level in reading and math. English is the national language of education and business. Most kids fail any subject because they simply can’t read the teacher notes, books, or even test questions.

After dreaming for several years and more than a year of discussions with community leaders, government officials, and parents…..Mission Servants Ministry (MSM) is submitting to serve and fill this need for a viable private Christian based school to educate the youngest of the children in the community of Bwase, home of the Child Redeemed Mission Home (CRM). Welcome the Bwase Redeemed Junior School (BRJS).

The Vision is to provide excellent early education for Preschool, Kindergarten, and up to Grade 4. These are crucial foundational years. Once the children get a good foundational education, they will either be old enough to walk the 2 miles to another Primary School, or can qualify for a boarding school for Grade 5 and above.

The Need is because the distance to elementary schools from Bwase is too far for small children to walk and low economic resources of families cannot provide transportation. This prevents the youngest children from attending schools altogether or rely on very poorly performing basic ones. Too many children can be found about, instead of in school, and they will get hopelessly behind.

The Idea is a partnership between MSM, the CRM Home and Bwase Redeemed Church (BRC), Community leaders, a Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), and Parents thru reasonable fees. MSM will provide the facilities, land, desks, and means to start a school. CRM will share facilities in the early phase and house teachers, BRC to pray and provide support, The parents and PTO to provide tuition fees and assistance to pay teachers salaries and feeding for the children.

The Plan is to start with Phase 1 and construct a class building, latrine, and fence incorporated on the new land recently purchased by MSM adjacent to the CRM property, and open Pre-school, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 in January of 2025. The next phases will allow adding at least one grade each year until we serve Grade 4.

The Promise is to hire good qualified teachers, limit class sizes to 45 kids (Government schools have as many as 160), and feed all kids (not so in government schools), and promote kids only if they qualify (not so with government schools who are required to pass students).

May God continue to bless our efforts with this, protect us, and provide. We are funded for construction of Phase 1 buildings but are praying for funds for desks, equipment, and materials. Thank you for your prayers and support for MSM and our missions.

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.