Our community is the most densely populated part of our Kabale. It is a community of very poor people, who have been leaving under the oppression of Satan with a lot of evil like drunkard-ness, adultery and witchcraft.
Resulting in many of the household heads dying leaving behind lots of orphans and widows. Many young girls have given birth to children with no responsible fathers. All this have left the community in utter poverty and yet the community does not have any viable source of income or any economic activity.When the Lord sent us to this community, we started to preach Christ to them and repentance from dead works.
However it became increasingly difficult to win these souls to Christ leave alone bringing them to church, considering the tough situation they go through. The average families take a single meal per day,others take two days without a meal. They live without good clothings, in our first services, it would be the Pastor only putting on shoes. Many people children especially sleep on mats with no beddings.
We asked the Lord for wisdom and a new approach to preach Christ. We started to mobilize friends to give us used clothes and shoes to give to these people. We also started to support some families with food.
With support from friends today we feed 30 families every year, who are graduated after training them income generating skills.Margaret Noblin has been a blessing to most of these families, she and her friends have helped train these widows how to make crafts and jewelry and she has helped get market.
Most of these families can now support their children with at least a meal per day.
This has caused a turning point,many families have given their lives to Christ because of the love we have shown to them. 
Last month we baptized 40 new converts. Many are already serving the Lord and winning their relatives to Christ.If you want to be a blessing to our community please contact us:
jbakashaba@gmail.com
NEHEMIAH INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES SUPPORT
In 2004 NIM Bible study teacher in her visit to Uganda came to our church and since then, our church and NIM started a good relationship that resulted in NiM supporting 40 students in our church mainly paying their school fees in high school. This gave our children a good foundation for a bright future.
Last year, NiM sent our children shoes and clothes, which were distributed to our youth and Sunday school children. To some of the children because that was the first time to put on shoes, they struggled to fit their feet in the shoes.
The church and the community are so grateful to all NiM friends especially in USA and China for
their gifts, you have made a difference in our community.NiM has also touched the needy families in our community, the one time gift to feed the hungry was received with great joy as many families in our community,especially those who come to church were blessed with potions of food and washing soap for three days.some of the food rations were given to the very poor patients in Kabale Hospital.
The People with disabilities were also blessed by the generous support from NIM. Moses from our community got disabled with polio when he was 10 years, and since then he could only move by crawling.
The wooden pieces he had broken. Thank God with support from NIM, he can now walk. He said "I thank God and those he used to give me crutches i can now walk comfortably and be able to go to church".Recently we distributed the crutches,canes and sticks to a certain organization in our community that takes care of People with Disabilities; most of their patients are people who were involved in accidents
, children born with polio and those who have been amputated in hospitals. The in charge was so happy and appreciated our church for being a blessing in the community.Some of the Medical items sent to us, were donated to the Medical center of our partners in Gaba-Kampala. And the remaining crutches and medical items are yet to be donated to Kabale government hospital.
We are so grateful to NIM and the Montreal Bible Church in Canada for their generous
support and their contribution to touch our community with the love of Christ. May the good Lord bless you abundantly.Kathleen of NIM Bible study have sent us Mp3 cds several times with great teachings from the NIM teacher and they have been a blessing to our church members especially those with access to cd players. May the good Lord bless you all.
If you want to know about NiM and how you can make a difference in our community through NiM please contact Kathleen Farnham at:
farnhamk@mac.com
Or visit NIM website at: www.nimbiblestudy.org
CRYSTAL CHON,AND THE CHRISTMAS GIFT
Chon, a wonderful sister from Califonia, came visiting our church with a team of preachers in 2005. She was so much touched by the numbers of children in our community especially in their desperate state. She was especially moved seeing naked children all over the community, most of them going hungry and many with no opportunity to go to school.
Our community is a slum, that was so much affected by AIDs and other diseases due to prostitution and too much poverty, resulting in too many orphaned children. These depend on the mercies of God to live, many especially boys have had to run away from home and they depend on left overs thrown away in to garbage bins.
When Crystal Chon went back she told the story of her trip to Africa and the suffering https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwYAuALJMxacpS9M1hoDT9MR4ajE9gLZ5YqwtiBV5A7fXYa-v2CPM0Th2hMJWuZR5oQC43EOzekXfFEvxbwVSxfN91S_8GkdimDBXIwpKJHvOESUFR9p4Z5A8y0DVxYB09heo1pfzxsQ/s1600-h/Sunday+school+kids+in+new+clothes1.jpgchildren in Africa to her friends. She, together with her friends sent to our children a Christmas gift that same year.
With the Christmas gift they sent, we were able to feed 100 children with a good meal and a soda on Christmas day. This was memorable to the children in our community, they have never forgotten this day, since it was their first time to have such a kind of Christmas and they have not had another one like it, since. We also bought clothes for all these children.
Crystal, helped our church buy a desktop computer, that has helped most of our youth to learn computer, to the glory of God. It also helps us to keep our documents.We are so grateful to Chon and her friends for their generous support.
To know much more on how you can join Chon to bless our children and transform our community please contact her on: cchon@hotmail.com
May God bless you.
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