A Note from Carole: Medical Updates

Gulu Community: On February 16 we finally moved our Favor of God clinic into town. We have looked for over a year for a centrally located building to hold the clinic and finally found one with reasonable rent. The landlord is a doctor who works in Kampala, and he agreed to fix up the three-bedroom house for us. There is enough room for a treatment room, office/counseling room, storage room, small laboratory, sick room, and a reception/waiting area. What an answer to prayer!

The community needs to see loving treatment, value and respect for life, high quality of care, and the ministry of prayer and the Word along with medicine. These are nowhere combined in any medical facility in Gulu. We feel it is one more open door to be the light of the world right where God has placed us.
This clinic will be the hub for mobile medical clinics combined with evangelistic outreach and community health programs focused on prevention.

Mobile Outreach: Recently our medical team and a volunteer from Canada headed out into the bush to partner with another ministry in a medical outreach. Our team gave the services, and the other ministry provided the medicines and transportation. They saw over 600 people in 2 days, came back exhausted, but felt very enlarged again with the compassionate loving heart of our gracious Heavenly Daddy for all people!

See some pictures here

A Note from Carole: Our Children Reach Out

At our House of Hope Children’s Home, one of our goals is to raise the children in the ways of the Lord. Every evening they sing and dance together in worship. They pray fervently for each other, their communities, their country, and the world. Another way we seek to nurture them in the love of God is through community outreach. They treasure this time spent ministering in the marketplace and to neighbors.

Recently we learned of a desperate family situation. A mother in the community abandoned her four small children and left them with a crippled and disabled father who makes only a few shillings repairing shoes. Hope, the House of Hope director, went to see the situation and found these four little ones from three to eight years old in a filthy environment, hungry, and unkept. We prayed how we were to be involved.
God led us to a nanny who could come in and care for them, and we hired her services. She has already transformed the simple dwelling into a clean and humble home. The children now have food, the nanny will come daily for their care, and the father is encouraged.

We wish there was room in our home for all these little children, but the house is full! The village will be built this year as the first team arrives from Australia in September! But even though our rooms are full, there is still room in our hearts for all these precious little ones. As the Father has loved us, so we love them. The bread and fish are broken again, to be divided with yet a few more! Lord, keep it multiplying, for there are so many still hungry!

Please pray with these children for individuals and families in northern Uganda. We would love to hear your stories if you would like to leave a comment.

Thanks so much.