OUR KIDS BACK FOR HOLIDAYS

Today our children have come back for holidays. We thank God because most of them have improved so much on their academics and they have performed well.

The children are so grateful to their sponsors for taking care of their school needs. It is a miracle to most of them to sit in class without getting worried of being chased from class anytime. Before this, every day they knew anytime they would be chased away for not paying school fees.

Thank you so much for giving unspeakable joy to these young ones.

Our children express themselves comfortably in English, now! They look to their future with great hope! These children have great dreams, some say they want to become head teachers, and others say they want to become Engineers and Medical Doctors. We appreciate all sponsors of these children that sacrifice a lot to put these children in school. Your gifts are not in vain.

With your support, we were able to buy each child a new shoe, so they will be able to start a new term in June without getting worried of the school shoes. Some already had torn apart shoes, whereas other had no shoes at all. Some were depending on borrowing shoes to be able to go to school. This new school does not permit pupils on bare feet to enter the school.

The children were so happy to go home with a new pair of shoes.

Praise God, we recruited a new staff called Grace Nafuna. Grace has a heart for the children and for the last one month that she has been in office, there is a tremendous difference. Please pray for her as she handles our children. Most of these children have had terrible experiences in the past and needs a lot of care, love and prayers.

We believe out of these children we shall great people in future.

God bless you friends.

KABALE CHILDREN-HAPPY EASTER-2009

Happy Easter friends! Our children are so grateful for the love that many friends have shown them. Our children celebrated this Easter with great joy. Yesterday each child received a mosquito net, thank God for the donation given to us by Debbie and Logan. Malaria is a killer disease in our community. Malaria is caused by Mosquitoes. Because of this many children and parents have died of Malaria. Therefore sleeping under a net is very important in Uganda, since this is the best way and the simple way to avoid Mosquito bites. Unfortunately, these nets are so expensive for ordinary Ugandan and many families can't afford them, leaving their lives vulnerable to the killer disease. We are so grateful for the support of Debbie and Logan Cox. We were able to get nets for 50 children. The children and their mothers were very excited for getting the nets. We are praying that the remaining children in the Sponsorship program will also get the mosquito nets. Many other children in our community would also be happy to get the nets. We are so grateful for the love and support from all of you dear friends. You have made a great difference in the lives of these children.
Though most of them lost their parents, your love and care has given them much hope, so much so that they feel they have parents out there. These children love the Lord and they are such a blessing even in the church. The community praises them for living Christ-like lives. We see in these children future great leaders that will impact our community and the communities around. Keep praying for these children, that they will of the Lord will be done in their lives.
God bless you!

HOUSE OF HOPE-HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

"Pure and undefiled religion before God... is this: to visit orphans and widows in the trouble..." James 1:27

To the children in Kabale House of Hope, April 1^st will always be remembered with great joy! This is the day when all the 16 children with their house mother started staying at House of Hope.

Whereas to the rest, April 1^st is marked as “fools’ day”, to the children in House of Hope, it is the day that restored hope in their hopeless lives. Most of them having spend most of their lives on the streets of Kabale with no place to call home, with no good food to eat apart from trash thrown into the garbage bins, with no clothes to put on and no bedding in the night coldness of Kabale! Early that evening, on April 1^st 2007, one by one, with their torn clothes packed in polythene bags, the children entered the gates of what was going to be their new home! The children are forever grateful to Mark and Margaret Noblin and Yvonne, under whose guidance together with the church leadership, the children were prayerfully selected from many other children and directed step by step. Mark and Margaret took time to help the children to adjust to the new life. They taught them what it means to leave in a home as a family.

With all hopelessness, hunger, torture and suffering put behind them the children started living together as a family, with Evas Tumuheirwe as their house mother, her self having three of her orphans in the children home.

It is now two years ago and yet the memory of what the Lord did for these children is still as fresh. Celebrating the two year anniversary the children were treated to a grand dinner at the House with roasted beef, chips (French fries), fruits and a coke. The children were so excited and one by they testified of the goodness of the Lord.

John Twesige with his trademark, “God has remembered me”! Recalled what the Lord did for him and how God remembered him, he said he never expected this. John was on the street since his child hood and came to church to play games one Saturday during AWANA classes with his friend Bruce also in the House. They gave their lives to Jesus that day and when they opportunity to come to the children home came they were among the first few! He had lost hope of finishing school. John would keep going in and out of school for lack of school fees and food. He has since gone back to school and is now in S.3.

Bruce said he was a thief not because he enjoyed it, but because he had no way to get food. Having lost his mother and Father, when he was still young, they only person to look to was his aging grandmother, who also had no one to take care of her. Bruce says, many times would be beaten, he thought at one time that he would be killed, when he was severely beaten and was left to die but somehow he survived. He says he can’t imagine he now shares the love of Christ to other boys who are still on the street.

Andrew, who had been on the street for ten years said, he had lost hope of life. He was tired of living and wanted to die. He wasted his life smoking and he didn’t hope he would be a live by now. But he said God was so good to him. He is so grateful to God who had mercy on him. He gave his life to Jesus and went back to school. Andrew today recite many scriptures and in English.

Komu, Joseph and Nicholas are brothers and sister, they say after the death of their father, their livelihood now depended on their mother. But tragedy fell on them, when their mother got sick and was paralyzed and since then was disabled. They dropped out of school, well-wishers would help them go back to school but only for a short period and they would be chased again. Joseph changed schools 5 times. Nicholas decided to go to the street for survival. The sisters begun to work as house helpers and baby sitters to earn some living. Komu is grateful to Danielle and her family who give her support. She is doing well in school.

All the 16 children have a story to tell. They are now happy, they sleep well, eat good food and clothe well. They are all in good schools and they are doing well in school; they value their education so much. Gone are the days when the school authorities would chase them every other day for lack of school fees. Some of them kept changing schools because of defaulting. They have big dreams! Some of them want to become Medical Doctors, Engineers, Nurses and teachers.

We are so grateful to the People For Missions who fund the feeding, health care accommodation and clothing of these children. You have made a difference in the lives of these children. Thank you so much.

Thank you all friends who have contributed in one way or the other to make these children what they are today. Your prayers and support have made them to be what they are.

We still have a challenge of raising their school tuition; we need your prayers and support.

Also pray for us that God will provide more resources to help many other children who are still suffering on the street. Our dream is to build a children village with 10 houses, a school and a clinic to help the suffering and homeless children.

In case you want to support these children in any way, please write to us at: jbakashaba@gmail.com