Back in Uganda

March 24 

Praise God we are back in Uganda at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement. I cannot begin to tell you how precious these dear children are. Nor the dedication, far above the call of duty, of our partner and dear friend Pastor Muhoza Lewi (Lay-we), he is such a special man of God that we compare him as a modern day George Muller. I will tell you more about him later in another posting.

We had such a very special and productive team meeting this morning. There were a number items we needed to discuss in a face to face team meeting and those are hard to schedule when your team is spread all over the world. For those who do not know our team consists of Pastor Dov Schwarz from Israel, Dee Warren from Texas, Pastor Muhoza Lewi from Uganda, and myself from Washington state. Our project is called “SEND IT AHEAD” because we all know when we die we cannot take anything with us, but our Lord has said you can lay up your treasures in heaven, so you can send them ahead.

One of the primary issues that was resolved was that there had been some confusion about the number of children being supported and educated at the Emmaus Global Outreach primary school on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in southwest Uganda. When our team came together in Uganda about a year ago agreeing to do what we could for these orphans and vulnerable children on this refugee camp, there were 367 children enrolled at the school. About 6 months later when I returned to Uganda to oversee the drilling of a water well, there were 586 children enrolled. That was a very large increase when you’re operating on a very tight budget depending on God’s grace from month to month. 

During our meeting it was learned that we were still only supporting the original 367, the other 219 children were children that recently arrived in the refugee camp and other schools were not available. The UN had asked Pastor Lewi if he could take them at Emmaus for short term, until they could find a more permanent solution. So for you who have been thankfully helping to financially support this program the number of children in the program remains at 367.

You may all not know that we had quite a scare with our new drilled water well about a month ago. I received word from Pastor Lewi that the children had no water coming from the well. When asked the reason he did not know because he was sick and in the hospital. We knew the well was a low volume producer and I was afraid that it was dry (my lack of faith). My wife, God bless her, assured me that God would not have brought this project this far just to abandon those precious children. So, repenting of my lack of faith, I was able to contact Living Water International, who drilled the well, and they sent a technician for an inspection . It turned out to be a mechanical problem and they had to change out the pump and plunger. So, praise God the well is back online and supplying the needs of the school.

Remember that you cannot take it with you, but you can “SEND IT AHEAD”.

If you can help we have a ways for you to donate to these children’s needs. Go to www.pouredoutforthenations.com  click on SUPPORT at the top of the page, there you will find an area to donate by PAYPAL or a button for online EGIVING,  please it is very important to make sure you designate your tax deductible donation to “Send It Ahead” or simply “SIA” program. You can further designate your funds by adding; Water, Food or Teachers. There is an area for you to type in your designated gift on both sites, look for the “comments section” or “special notes”. For those that rather give by personal check: make check payable to, “Poured Out For The Nations” with “Send It Ahead” in the note area. Mail to: Poured Out For The Nations, Send It Ahead Project, P.O. Box 564, Pearland, TX 77588.

May God richly bless you for your generous giving to help these vulnerable children in Uganda.