CHRISTINE GRADUATES

It was a joy to attend Christine's graduation on Friday March,26th. Christine Mahoro is one of the children i take care of, and i was so happy to see her graduate with a certificate in comprehensive Nursing.
Christine's parents failed to raise her tuition after she completed her S.4. I then started to raise her support for her to continue with her education together with several other children. When she completed her S.6, it became too expensive for me to pay for Christine for University education. I advised her to take a technical course and she applied for Nursing education. After a lot of prayers, i shared Christine's story with friends from Texas and God touched their hearts to help her complete her course.
We do appreciate all the dear friends that supported Christine to complete her course in Nursing.
She graduated with several other young people that were attached to our church and it was a great joy to see their dream come true.
The graduation ceremony was very colorful and it was presided over by the State Minister for High education together a number of Principal tutors from various other schools of Nursing.
Christine is already very supportive to our ministry especially to help sick children in our community. she is already using her skills to be a blessing to our church and community. She is also our church administrator.
Christine's dream to help more and more sick people especially children and mothers. We pray that God will provide enough funding to set up a medical clinic in our community as one of the ways to help the poor sick people in our community. Many people in our community are so poor and they cannot afford the medical care that is expensive n our country. As a result many parents and children have died of diseases like Malaria. Many children suffer with untreated wounds, ring worms and eye diseases. Many are infected with intestinal worms. We pray that God will touch hearts for people willing to help us. We welcome people willing to come for medical missions to help the suffering people in our community. We also appreciate donation of medicine or funds as God provides.
God bless you.

PASTORS RECEIVE BIBLES

A few weeks ago, our Pastors had a story to tell when they reached back home, after 5 days of the Leaders' conference in Kabale.
The conference code named "The Pastors' friend conference", was organized by Pastors Tom and Sandy McElfresh from Virginia. They recently incorporated this ministry as The Pastors' Friend International, with a main goal to equip the Pastors and leaders in developing countries. They will be holding Leaders' conferences in Kabale every March.
Around 500 Pastors and leaders attended this year's conference. Most Pastors in Africa have not had formal training, therefore such conferences help to train the Pastors and leaders for the work of the ministry.
This conference started on Monday and ended on Friday. It was unique in a way that Pastors' Friend international donated Bibles to the Pastors and Leaders. Bibles are very expensive to the Pastors who come from villages, especially Rukiga Bibles which cost around $9 each. Most of these Pastors earn less than a dollar per day, and therefore it is so hard to save for a Bible. One Pastor told us later on that;they had only one Bible in a church of about 50 people and it could be shared among the Leaders.
Thank God for the friends who were touched and donated these Bibles. You would have seen the joy and the smiling faces of the Pastors as they went wielding their new Bibles, thanking God for his goodness and provisions. They went determined that they are going to use those Bibles to preach the gospel of the kingdom even to the last person in their villages.
Thank you friends that supported this conference and especially those who donated Bibles.
May God bless you.