AWANA & HOUSE OF HOPE:Transforming the community

AWANA COMES TO KABALE

In the year 2006, God opened a door for our ministry to partner with People for Missions a missionary organization from the USA. God led missionaries Margaret and Mark Noblin to come to Kabale and eventually partner with us.
With the help of Mark and Margaret,we got to know Awana International, a child discipling ministry. And the same year, with Yvonne Pickens, Awana was launched in Kabale-Uganda.
Awana has had a lasting impact on our community. Many boys and girls have committed their lives to Jesus. Former street children are now in the church and ministering in the Sunday school. Because of its impact, some mothers too have come to church and given their lives to Jesus. One Moslem mother later told us,"my child sings praises to Jesus every day and prays in Jesus' name before eating food and before going to bed"
Today the mother is in church and has converted to Christ!
The children here used to fight so much and be involved in a lot of evil but today,children in Awana have influenced the entire community. Children every where sing Jesus.
With support from Preston wood Bible church- Yvonne's church, we were able to purchase Awana uniform for over 100 children and some teaching materials. The community has over 500 children. Our prayer is to win all of them to Jesus.

For more information on how you can help these children please contact Yvonne Pickens at:yvnnpckns@netzero.net

HOUSE OF HOPE -A SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS

"For i was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me..." Matt 25:35,36

With so many parents having died of different diseases and situations, there was a big problem of shelter for so many children in our community. Many resorted to run to the streets in such of food and shelter.

As one of the ways to transform our community, we agreed with Margaret and Mark that we partner with House of Hope which basically helps to house homeless children and provide them with food, clothing, school fees and medical care.
It wasn't a problem to identify children in need of this kind of help, the problem was to choose from the many. So we decided to choose from the children who were already in Awana and being discipled, to make a good foundation for a start.
In April 2007, House of Hope with support from People for Missions,started in Kabale with 16 helpless children and a house mother who herself in a widow with three children and is a committed Christian and leader in our church.
This has brought about a tremendous impact in our community. It's a living testimony of the love of Christ in the community. Four of the boys are former street children. One lady looked at her son and she cried, she could not believe, she said she had given up on her son.



Children are so grateful, all of them testify that they had lost hope of going to school. John, a former street boy, when he stepped in the gate screamed, "God has remembered me". To some this was the very first experience to sleep on a bed with a mattress and bedsheets. To many it was a miracle to have a single meal in a day. Prossy, one of the girls testified recently that she would use one book for all subjects, she would tear the book and make several other small exercise books.
We are so grateful to every one supporting this children in the House of Hope.
For more information on how you can join in to support these children and many more like them, please contact us at: jbakashaba@gmail.com