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Trip 28 to Uganda and Kenya, Update 1

Launching Trip 26 today.  Greg, Randy, and I are headed for Uganda and next week Randal and Cheryl join us.  We have all been to Africa many times but we still are excited to get back.  In general we will be loving on the kids and people at Child Redeemed Mission Home in Uganda, the Teso Evangelism ministry in Malaba, Kenya, and the kids at Lord’s Servants Home in Kitale, Kenya.

I will post updates about how it is going….coming up, Swing Set for the Rock View Primary School, Teso evangelism training, visiting the kids at Lord’s Servants Home, VBS at Child Redeemed Mission Home, and a Medical Vision Outreach for the Bwase Community.

Your prayers and support are vital and appreciated!

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Partner Project with Promise Primary School Building Addition…Update 4 FINISHED!!!

This exciting project to add 4 new classrooms to the Promise Primary School and impact children’s lives is complete.  This school is the vision of Noah Mugabi, Director and Lillian Russell, a woman from South Carolina with a heart for Ugandan children.  The vision was to provide a quality education to the small community of Nabwigulu village, Kamuli district, Uganda (Africa) about 5 km from the town of Kamuli.  The school was adding temporary buildings but was not able to accommodate the volume of children in the area needing a school.

A core purpose of Mission Servants Ministry is to help ministry organizations that have child serving visions, to achieve them to the benefit of children….sooner rather than later.  This project will allow 425 children to enroll in January, up from the current 250 and adding the final upper grades in primary school…Grade 6 and 7.  Promise Primary is now a full primary school with quality programs, clean water, and coming soon (next trip in January) a playground.  This project was completed for under $16,000.   The other assistance MSM provided was mentorship in planning and budgeting with the goal being that Promise Primary will operate in a fiscally self sufficient manner in 2019.

During the month since the last update, the 4 classroom addition project was finished by hanging doors, installing plexi-glass in the doors and windows, finish the plastering inside, and painting.   Also during this project a water well was dug and a pump installed.  Finally, a very exciting parent and community open house was held discussing the school vision.  All glory to God!

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The school will open for Term I of 2019 in the end of January.  The MSM Trip 26 in January will include building desks and tables and building seesaws and swings.

We praise God for all this and appreciate your prayers and support.

Open for Mission Teams

In 2018 alone so far, 3 mission teams spanning over 3 months in residence, visited CRM.  Visiting teams are very important to the children, community, and local management team.  It was decided to renovate the original family house that existed on the land that was purchased to build the Child Redeemed Home (CRM) in 2013 into the CRM Guest House.  Since it is not ideal to displace kids from their rooms in the dorms when mission teams visit, creating a guest house became a need.  This work was done with a separate donation and for less than $6,000. The building had been recently used for storage and some temporary stays as it had a leaky roof, dark interior, and unfinished walls which were havens for rats and bats.   Well, Thanking God, it is open for teams….join us at CRM for a visit.

The renovation was extensive as the roof was removed, walls heighten 15″, wall vents installed, some interior walls altered or moved, interior walls raised all the way to the roof, an exterior window and door installed, interior doors installed, new roof installed with some translucent panels for natural lighting, plastering inside and outside, and painting.  This yielded a layout with 4 private bedrooms, one which can function as a garage, a central meeting room, and an outside accessible utility room.  It is quiet, private, cool, well lit, and rodent free.  Next step, during the January trip, DC lighting and power will be installed.  Bedding, curtains, and furniture for the meeting room will be added soon.

Here is what it looked like previously…

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Trip 22, CRM Home Uganda – A Family Affair.

Robyn and her six, yes 6, kids traveled to Uganda from Charlotte, NC and have been serving at the Child Redeemed Mission Home in Uganda this week.  The kids range in age from 10 year old twins that were adopted from Uganda 5 years ago to College age and all together carried almost 1,500 pounds of donated supplies to Uganda.  Robyn, an RN, and her kids brought their skills and energy as well and have really blessed CRM, the Church, and two schools that MSM is working with.  The Rock View Primary School and Promise Primary School were both visited and blessed with supplies, hygiene training, and encouragement.  Clothing, medical supplies, tools, crafts, balls, encouragement and love have been distributed.  God bless you guys as you journey on next week.