Every year we celebrate the S4 students by honoring them at a graduation banquet. This year the S4 boys did a rap for all those who attended.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
S4 Banquet
Every year we celebrate the S4 students by honoring them at a graduation banquet. This year the S4 boys did a rap for all those who attended.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Our House
We are nearing the end of the construction process of our home. We consider ourselves so blessed to have such a nice home and are thankful for all who have committed to support us in the building process. We have almost raised the entire amount needed to finish construction. Our goal was $7,000 and we have currently received $4,000. Thank you again to those who have given to this need.
Blessings,
Caleb, Alair, Nico and Nate
Friday, December 3, 2010
Hungry anyone?
Fried grasshoppers are back on the menu. December is the month for this great delicacy. They make a great topping for your pizza! =)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
When Hippos Attack
This is the place we take our teams and visitors when they want to see Ugandan wildlife. This park employee got a little too close to the hippo that was grazing near the lodge.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Local School
Here in Uganda most schools are private. You must pay out of your own pocket to attend school. This is why so many kids love going to school. It is a privilege to be educated. Please pray for our students we have over 600 that New Hope is responsible for.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Medical/Water Outreach
Currently we are hosting a medical and water outreach team. Each day we have have gone out with them to the various communities that surround New Hope. As we treat them medically we are sharing the gospel with them. There have been some that have received Christ through these outreaches. I have also had the privilege helping with our water team. Bad water kills people! Diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, typhoid, and many more are a result of contaminated water. According to the USA Today, "More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war." One out of six people live without regular access to safe drinking water. The need is sometimes overwhelming as we reach the remote parts of Uganda. With the Newlife International water equipment we have been able to train and equip the local people on how to chlorinate their drinking water. After the training we leave the equipment with them. Not only have we given them access to clean water we have shared the truth of the "living water" of Christ and how they will thirst no more. It has been exciting to see lives transformed through this ministry.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Hope House (New Hope Baby House)
We praise God that we have 17 regular sponsors of Hope House. 13 more sponsors are needed to fully fund our current operating costs.Note: These costs can and do change as we take in more babies and when we move into our new Hope House (currently under construction) this number will increase as we will be able to care for more babies.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
A trip to Kampala
Often times our friends and family from America ask us what our typical day looks like. It’s hard to answer that question because we experience so many changes throughout any given week. However, this picture of the boys describes what their day looks like while driving to and from Kampala. We only wish they would sleep like this at night.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Daily Bible Reading
Keep reading, keep reading…
This new slogan, which has recently replaced the traditional “they say”, is now the talk of many of our secondary school students. I have picked it up myself because it is a mark of history in our nation.
This is the result of the ongoing campaign here in the New Hope community to all read through the Bible chronologically over the next year and a half. When it clock strikes 10:30, a reminder bell rings and all work and school comes to a stop; its Bible reading time… Amazing.
Children and staff all get out their Bible.
I mean, everyone gets down to serious reading of the Word. Even the pre-schoolers look out their classroom windows waiting for who is coming to tell them the story of the Bible for that day.
You may wonder how and why this a big deal and worth of sharing. Culturally, as Africans, we are not so keen with reading. I mean, we read maybe for exams and things like that, but it is much easier for us to sit and listen to a speech or sermon for three hours than to sit and do focused reading for 30 minutes. Secondly, we usually get facts of life and truths (even the Word) passed on to us through other people, like elders.
It is easier to believe something because “they say” than to take the trouble to find out for oneself.
But this is not the case anymore here, especially with the children. They are now eagerly digging into the Word and getting amazed by the truth they are discovering for themselves. They are so proud about the new venture whereby they do not have to believe something from the Word of God because so-and-so said so… but because they have beheld it themselves.
Please pray for us that the Word of God does not stay in our heads but gets to our hearts; pray for a Godly people in a Godly nation as we keep reading, keep reading…
This new slogan, which has recently replaced the traditional “they say”, is now the talk of many of our secondary school students. I have picked it up myself because it is a mark of history in our nation.
This is the result of the ongoing campaign here in the New Hope community to all read through the Bible chronologically over the next year and a half. When it clock strikes 10:30, a reminder bell rings and all work and school comes to a stop; its Bible reading time… Amazing.
Children and staff all get out their Bible.
I mean, everyone gets down to serious reading of the Word. Even the pre-schoolers look out their classroom windows waiting for who is coming to tell them the story of the Bible for that day.
You may wonder how and why this a big deal and worth of sharing. Culturally, as Africans, we are not so keen with reading. I mean, we read maybe for exams and things like that, but it is much easier for us to sit and listen to a speech or sermon for three hours than to sit and do focused reading for 30 minutes. Secondly, we usually get facts of life and truths (even the Word) passed on to us through other people, like elders.
It is easier to believe something because “they say” than to take the trouble to find out for oneself.
But this is not the case anymore here, especially with the children. They are now eagerly digging into the Word and getting amazed by the truth they are discovering for themselves. They are so proud about the new venture whereby they do not have to believe something from the Word of God because so-and-so said so… but because they have beheld it themselves.
Please pray for us that the Word of God does not stay in our heads but gets to our hearts; pray for a Godly people in a Godly nation as we keep reading, keep reading…
By Nabagesera Jessica, Investment Year Coordinator, NHU Staff since July 2005
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Parents Day
Once a year our primary school has a Parents’ Day in which we invite the parents to school. In recent years we have made this a more active day by starting out with races between the various color groups the primary school is divided into. The kids love the competition and they also enjoy watching their parents compete in each race after the students have competed. The race I like to watch the best is when we carry a soda bottle full of water on the head. It takes real skill and grace to do this. For some reason our Ugandan brothers and sisters are much better at this than those of us from other places. After the races at the field we went back to the primary school so that parents could visit the classrooms, meet the teachers, and look at mid-term exam results. The day ends with the announcement of the winning color group. This year the pink team won. In Isaiah 9:6 one of the names given to the Messiah is “Everlasting Father.” What a comfort to know that even as we parent our children here we have Father God to go to when we need help and need a parent ourselves.
NHU
NHU
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
May-July Updates
How do we let the months slip by so fast without sending an update!?! Since we last wrote in April so much has happened it’s hard to know just how best to share it all with you, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so with that in mind, here’s our best shot at it!
At the end of April we had a wonderful time with our Pacific family on our Family Vacation to a hotel in Jinja for swimming and then on the YWAM base on Lake Victoria where we conquered the challenge course and enjoyed team building games and activities.
May began with our annual foreign staff retreat. It was a sweet time of fellowship and encouragement for the missionaries/ families who were there. In May we also helped our Kobwin site host a medical outreach team, and hosted the Alpine Church team as well as two family teams at Kasana and welcomed several new staff members/ families.
We also added Caleb’s cousin Julia to our household, Pacific family and the greater Kasana family (until the beginning of July). Julz was not only a help and joy to have in our home, but a true blessing to the girls in Pacific family (who miss her terribly already), to Hope House (and each little life she touched with her care), and to her P3 class at Esubi Eppia Primary School.
The months of June and July were filled with more than World Cup mania! We had the unexpected blessing of a team from John Brown University, and the long awaited blessing of the Raber family from Blackhawk Ministries (our sending church) in Fort Wayne, with the Solar Powered Water Pump equipment! The work they came to do was a huge service to New Hope and the surrounding community, as we now have water pumping to our tower even when the electricity is out thanks to God’s power- the sun and to all those who made it possible for the Raber’s to come and donated many items! Their family’s visit meant even more to us because of the timing and circumstances surrounding their service, fellowship, and encouragement to us and our boys!
From June until July we welcomed two more teams, another family team and still more staff to our ministry! We celebrated the fourth of July in Uganda as a group of Americans from an assortment of states and we even allowed couple from Canada to join in the only alternative to celebrating Canada Day (July 1)… close enough, eh? If that isn’t enough many of our kids, decked in RED, WHITE, and BLUE even took a ride in a Chinese fire truck!
The second week of July we had an “intimate” ground breaking ceremony (just the four of us, the construction director and our contractor) on the land that construction of our house has now begun!
Most of you probably couldn’t have missed our most recent event that made a top story on major news stations around the world- the bombings in Kampala the night of the final World Cup match. What a stark reminder to thank you for your ongoing prayers for our safety. We drove through Kampala the afternoon of the 11th with the Raber family to take them to the Entebbe airport. After dropping them off the next morning we learned of the terrorist attack. Entebbe is about 20 miles from Kampala so we were well out of the way of any threat. A text came through from New Hope telling us to stay put in Entebbe until the next day. Please pray that there will not be any more terrorist attacks- especially as Somalia has declared that Uganda is its enemy, and in the words of one of its Sheiks "anything that makes Uganda cry makes us smile." We are praying for reconciliation, for God's intervention, and for many to come to know Him through this time.
The Mitchells are about to celebrate two major events in our family, and one belated event- the first being “God Made You a Mitchell- Day” for Nicolas on July 17th and Nathaniel’s 1st Birthday on July 28th! A third noteworthy event (that both of us forgot) was our 13th anniversary (July 1st). You “facebookers” may have gotten the full story on that one. As teams slow down for a bit we are taking a weekend away- a perfect way for us to have some focused marriage/family time. Praying all is well and would love to hear about what’s going on with you!
The Mitchell’s- Caleb, Alair, Nico & Nate
At the end of April we had a wonderful time with our Pacific family on our Family Vacation to a hotel in Jinja for swimming and then on the YWAM base on Lake Victoria where we conquered the challenge course and enjoyed team building games and activities.
May began with our annual foreign staff retreat. It was a sweet time of fellowship and encouragement for the missionaries/ families who were there. In May we also helped our Kobwin site host a medical outreach team, and hosted the Alpine Church team as well as two family teams at Kasana and welcomed several new staff members/ families.
We also added Caleb’s cousin Julia to our household, Pacific family and the greater Kasana family (until the beginning of July). Julz was not only a help and joy to have in our home, but a true blessing to the girls in Pacific family (who miss her terribly already), to Hope House (and each little life she touched with her care), and to her P3 class at Esubi Eppia Primary School.
The months of June and July were filled with more than World Cup mania! We had the unexpected blessing of a team from John Brown University, and the long awaited blessing of the Raber family from Blackhawk Ministries (our sending church) in Fort Wayne, with the Solar Powered Water Pump equipment! The work they came to do was a huge service to New Hope and the surrounding community, as we now have water pumping to our tower even when the electricity is out thanks to God’s power- the sun and to all those who made it possible for the Raber’s to come and donated many items! Their family’s visit meant even more to us because of the timing and circumstances surrounding their service, fellowship, and encouragement to us and our boys!
From June until July we welcomed two more teams, another family team and still more staff to our ministry! We celebrated the fourth of July in Uganda as a group of Americans from an assortment of states and we even allowed couple from Canada to join in the only alternative to celebrating Canada Day (July 1)… close enough, eh? If that isn’t enough many of our kids, decked in RED, WHITE, and BLUE even took a ride in a Chinese fire truck!
The second week of July we had an “intimate” ground breaking ceremony (just the four of us, the construction director and our contractor) on the land that construction of our house has now begun!
Most of you probably couldn’t have missed our most recent event that made a top story on major news stations around the world- the bombings in Kampala the night of the final World Cup match. What a stark reminder to thank you for your ongoing prayers for our safety. We drove through Kampala the afternoon of the 11th with the Raber family to take them to the Entebbe airport. After dropping them off the next morning we learned of the terrorist attack. Entebbe is about 20 miles from Kampala so we were well out of the way of any threat. A text came through from New Hope telling us to stay put in Entebbe until the next day. Please pray that there will not be any more terrorist attacks- especially as Somalia has declared that Uganda is its enemy, and in the words of one of its Sheiks "anything that makes Uganda cry makes us smile." We are praying for reconciliation, for God's intervention, and for many to come to know Him through this time.
The Mitchells are about to celebrate two major events in our family, and one belated event- the first being “God Made You a Mitchell- Day” for Nicolas on July 17th and Nathaniel’s 1st Birthday on July 28th! A third noteworthy event (that both of us forgot) was our 13th anniversary (July 1st). You “facebookers” may have gotten the full story on that one. As teams slow down for a bit we are taking a weekend away- a perfect way for us to have some focused marriage/family time. Praying all is well and would love to hear about what’s going on with you!
The Mitchell’s- Caleb, Alair, Nico & Nate
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Uganda Bombings
I'm sure many of you have heard of the bombings in Kampala. Thank you for your prayers for our safety. Alair and I drove through Kampala that afternoon as we were taking the Raber family to the Entebbe airport. After dropping them off early the next morning we got the news of a terrorist attack in Kampala. Entebbe is about 20 miles from Kampala so we were well out of the way of any threat. A text came through from New Hopes manager telling us to stay put in Entebbe until the next day. We are listening to the Embassy's advice on travel and places to steer clear of, and will continue to be as careful as we can. Please pray that there will not be any more terrorist attacks- especially as Somalia has declared that Uganda is it's enemy and in the words of one of its Sheiks "anything that makes Uganda cry makes us smile." We are praying for reconciliation, for God's intervention, and for many to come to know Him through this time.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Kobwin Children's Center
KOBWIN_PROJECT from Dathan Graham on Vimeo.
We are very excited that after years of preparation, we have officially opened our Kobwin Children’s Center. By His grace, we are now helping to bring the Fatherhood of God on a full-time basis to former child soldiers and other affected (“Invisible Children”) by the Lord’s Resistance Army atrocities in northern Uganda. Twenty-one of these young people, sometimes called “returnees”, are now living at our Kobwin Center. The returnees receive intense educational remediation and discipleship in the context of family. The next step will be to build a vocational school.
The vision to establish a center in the east of Uganda grew out of the desperate situation observed when New Hope Uganda staff and children went to Soroti as Mission Hope Soroti. New Hope ministered there to those suffering in the aftermath of the invasion of the area by Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in 2003.
From that time to now, New Hope staff have been reaching out to the region. New Hope has been very involved in the reconciliation movement that has helped bring healing to many.In 2008, New Hope narrowed its focus to returnees from the area of Amuria. A series of week-long camp experiences knitted us together with the Amuria community and nearly 60 of the returnees living there. Today, the returnees who have not moved to the Kobwin Center are provided counseling and tutoring by New Hope staff in Amuria. This presence enables New Hope to be a part of the healing process in both the returnees and the communities they live in.
Football (soccer) is the unquestioned king of sports in Uganda (probably in everywhere but the US it seems). The World Cup is always a big deal but the fact that it is being held in Africa makes it even a bigger deal here.
One thing we have been trying to do at New Hope is to “play” together more. Saturday night we had a time of recreation enjoying the World Cup.
Joseph Ruyondo, our head of Childcare, and his family hooked up a TV, projector and some speakers so that we could all watch the England-US game together. It started at 9:30pm but a large crowd turned up anyway (church starts at 10:30am here so there was still time to sleep after:).
I’m not quite sure yet who the favorite team at New Hope is for the World Cup. But on this night all the US staff were trying to recruit as many as possible to the US side while the UK staff was doing the same. We all had a great time and ending in a tie was just fine (at least it was for the US supporters:)
- Tal Anderson
One thing we have been trying to do at New Hope is to “play” together more. Saturday night we had a time of recreation enjoying the World Cup.
Joseph Ruyondo, our head of Childcare, and his family hooked up a TV, projector and some speakers so that we could all watch the England-US game together. It started at 9:30pm but a large crowd turned up anyway (church starts at 10:30am here so there was still time to sleep after:).
I’m not quite sure yet who the favorite team at New Hope is for the World Cup. But on this night all the US staff were trying to recruit as many as possible to the US side while the UK staff was doing the same. We all had a great time and ending in a tie was just fine (at least it was for the US supporters:)
- Tal Anderson
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Pacific Family Holiday
Hill overlooking YWAM and Global Theological Seminary
Alair making bracletts with the girls
At Busoga High School overlooking Golbal Outreach and Lake Victoria.
Nico wanted to go down the zip line.
Games
Challenge Course
Challenge Course
Pacific Family
King Fisher Swimming
Playing musical chairs
The building Caleb helped construct in 1994
Inside the seminary building
April was a full month. We hosted a team from the UK who ended up staying in Uganda almost a week longer than expected because of the volcanic eruption that shut down all European airports and cancelled so many flights around the globe. They like all the teams who grace our Centre, were a blessing to New Hope as well as to us personally.
The last week in April we received the with great anticipation the long awaited approval from the High Court of Uganda to be legal guardians of Nicolas- how exciting to have official documents in our hands at last! Now we can begin the passport and U.S. visa process for him and start all over from square one with Nathaniel. The whole process is challenging, and seems to take forever, but no amount of work is too much when it comes to your children, nor can it compare to the cost paid for our own adoptions as sons and daughters of the Father, brothers, sisters, and now co-heirs with Christ! (Ephesians 1:3-6, Galatians 4:6, Romans 8:17)
We had a great time with our family group (Pacific Family) last week as we traveled to Jinja for a holiday. The students are on a school break and once a year our family group takes a few days away from New Hope to enjoy time together apart from studies and regular work. The first day we took the kids to a place called the King Fisher Hotel for swim time. Swimming is a special event as many of them have never stepped foot in a pool and the ones who have only have done so on family vacation! After that we headed to the YWAM Discovery Center. The youth camp staff had several activities planned for the children, the highlight being the challenge course. The family vacation was a great time to continue building relationships on a more one to one basis. Nico and Nate enjoyed the extra attention they received from our family.
One unexpected side trip came about as we were sitting on the veranda the first night. Caleb thought this place to be very familiar. He asked a YWAM staff member where Global Theological Seminary was. The staff said it was the just next property over. The following day we drove to the seminary to check out the progress. In 1994 Caleb spent a summer in Jinja with Teen Missions International working on a building that would be used for training pastors. This organization was called Global Outreach. It had been nearly 16 years ago that Caleb was last there. And it was exciting to seeing the building that he had helped start to build, now not only in its completion, but several other buildings in addition being used by eager teachers and students of the word of God!
The last week in April we received the with great anticipation the long awaited approval from the High Court of Uganda to be legal guardians of Nicolas- how exciting to have official documents in our hands at last! Now we can begin the passport and U.S. visa process for him and start all over from square one with Nathaniel. The whole process is challenging, and seems to take forever, but no amount of work is too much when it comes to your children, nor can it compare to the cost paid for our own adoptions as sons and daughters of the Father, brothers, sisters, and now co-heirs with Christ! (Ephesians 1:3-6, Galatians 4:6, Romans 8:17)
We had a great time with our family group (Pacific Family) last week as we traveled to Jinja for a holiday. The students are on a school break and once a year our family group takes a few days away from New Hope to enjoy time together apart from studies and regular work. The first day we took the kids to a place called the King Fisher Hotel for swim time. Swimming is a special event as many of them have never stepped foot in a pool and the ones who have only have done so on family vacation! After that we headed to the YWAM Discovery Center. The youth camp staff had several activities planned for the children, the highlight being the challenge course. The family vacation was a great time to continue building relationships on a more one to one basis. Nico and Nate enjoyed the extra attention they received from our family.
One unexpected side trip came about as we were sitting on the veranda the first night. Caleb thought this place to be very familiar. He asked a YWAM staff member where Global Theological Seminary was. The staff said it was the just next property over. The following day we drove to the seminary to check out the progress. In 1994 Caleb spent a summer in Jinja with Teen Missions International working on a building that would be used for training pastors. This organization was called Global Outreach. It had been nearly 16 years ago that Caleb was last there. And it was exciting to seeing the building that he had helped start to build, now not only in its completion, but several other buildings in addition being used by eager teachers and students of the word of God!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Who let the snakes out!
Last Monday we found two friends on our back porch where Nico plays regularly. God protected him as two boys from our family group found them before Nico. However, Nico did try to pick one of them up.
Friday, February 26, 2010
From Death to Life
What a month it has been. With Caleb being sick for over two weeks in and out of hospitals it defiantly has not been the norm. We are so thankful for God’s grace during that time. We are so thankful for the friendships we have with those here at New Hope and are continually amazed at the willingness of the body of Christ to come along side us as we were going through this rough period. God is teaching us so much about the need for Him and is showing us areas in our marriage that need improvement. We are excited about the opportunities He has for us here and will continue to give thanks to Him for all that He is doing and has done!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Our first coffee sale
Mount Ruwenzori Coffee
Mwine packing the first coffee bag
Baby Nate
Nico playing with Papa
“ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the LORD...
Greetings from Uganda and Happy 2010! What a year it has been for us. As we look back on the year these verses, as have many times in the past, proved so true! We have been so blessed to see the Lord prosper, bring hope, and a future to our lives. As many of you know Alair’s mom passed away almost a year ago. As we mourned her loss we celebrated her new life in heaven. As emotional as it was we where continually reminded of God’s faithfulness to our family and the grace He so generously pours out on our lives. With the loss of life came the reunion of with our son Nicolas and as this year came to an end we were so blessed to receive our second son Nathaniel.
December was exciting for us as we were able to spend Christmas with Alair’s dad and sister. It was wonderful to have family in Uganda during the holidays. As January comes to an end we are gearing up for the season of teams. We will welcome a team from North Dakota and in February a team from Washington. Both teams will be working with our camp on Lake Victoria. Some will be helping develop the road systems and others will be doing much needed medical outreaches. We pray that relationships with the local people will strengthen and the gospel with go forth.
A very exciting note for Caleb is the new coffee business that started this month. He has made the 2 hour trek to Kampala with Steve Brown (the head of our early adulthood program) several times this month to help bring New Hope’s Uganda coffee distributing company to fruition. They have purchased coffee from the Mount Elgon and Mount Ruwenzori region of Uganda to be roasted in Kampala and then packaged for resale. There has been a growing coffee market in Kampala and we are hopeful that this business will be a success. We have already sold the coffee to short term teams that visit New Hope and then eventually to hotels and stores in Kampala. The long term goal will be exporting it to the US and European markets. The pictures below are of IY (Investment Year) students from New Hope who will be learning to run the business. All the profits will feed into that program and will help make it self sufficient.
While the world often sees the growing number of fatherless and orphaned children as a problem or burden, New Hope Uganda believes they are an unprecedented opportunity. Our mission is to work with this generation to “bring the Fatherhood of God to the fatherless” children of Uganda for generations to come. One way we can do this is to prepare our young adults to enter the market place if that is where the Lord takes them. New Hope is now roasting, and distributing coffee in a growing economy in Kampala, Uganda for the purpose of generating income and providing opportunities for the IY (Investment Year) students to learn new business skills and to help offset the IY programs expenses. New Hope Uganda Coffee Roasters' will become a self sustaining business after the first year of operation.
• IY students will learn vital business skills of marketing, sales, and accounting
• Income generation to help offset the cost of the IY program
• IY students will learn how to work as a team
• Project will help expose New Hope to potential partners
We want to thank each one of you for your finical and prayer support as we continue to serve here at new hope. Please continue to pray for the finalization of guardianship for Nico and the beginning processes with our new son Nate. We also plan to start the building process next month for our home.
We love and miss you all!
Caleb, Alair, Nico and Nate
Mwine packing the first coffee bag
Baby Nate
Nico playing with Papa
“ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the LORD...
Greetings from Uganda and Happy 2010! What a year it has been for us. As we look back on the year these verses, as have many times in the past, proved so true! We have been so blessed to see the Lord prosper, bring hope, and a future to our lives. As many of you know Alair’s mom passed away almost a year ago. As we mourned her loss we celebrated her new life in heaven. As emotional as it was we where continually reminded of God’s faithfulness to our family and the grace He so generously pours out on our lives. With the loss of life came the reunion of with our son Nicolas and as this year came to an end we were so blessed to receive our second son Nathaniel.
December was exciting for us as we were able to spend Christmas with Alair’s dad and sister. It was wonderful to have family in Uganda during the holidays. As January comes to an end we are gearing up for the season of teams. We will welcome a team from North Dakota and in February a team from Washington. Both teams will be working with our camp on Lake Victoria. Some will be helping develop the road systems and others will be doing much needed medical outreaches. We pray that relationships with the local people will strengthen and the gospel with go forth.
A very exciting note for Caleb is the new coffee business that started this month. He has made the 2 hour trek to Kampala with Steve Brown (the head of our early adulthood program) several times this month to help bring New Hope’s Uganda coffee distributing company to fruition. They have purchased coffee from the Mount Elgon and Mount Ruwenzori region of Uganda to be roasted in Kampala and then packaged for resale. There has been a growing coffee market in Kampala and we are hopeful that this business will be a success. We have already sold the coffee to short term teams that visit New Hope and then eventually to hotels and stores in Kampala. The long term goal will be exporting it to the US and European markets. The pictures below are of IY (Investment Year) students from New Hope who will be learning to run the business. All the profits will feed into that program and will help make it self sufficient.
While the world often sees the growing number of fatherless and orphaned children as a problem or burden, New Hope Uganda believes they are an unprecedented opportunity. Our mission is to work with this generation to “bring the Fatherhood of God to the fatherless” children of Uganda for generations to come. One way we can do this is to prepare our young adults to enter the market place if that is where the Lord takes them. New Hope is now roasting, and distributing coffee in a growing economy in Kampala, Uganda for the purpose of generating income and providing opportunities for the IY (Investment Year) students to learn new business skills and to help offset the IY programs expenses. New Hope Uganda Coffee Roasters' will become a self sustaining business after the first year of operation.
• IY students will learn vital business skills of marketing, sales, and accounting
• Income generation to help offset the cost of the IY program
• IY students will learn how to work as a team
• Project will help expose New Hope to potential partners
We want to thank each one of you for your finical and prayer support as we continue to serve here at new hope. Please continue to pray for the finalization of guardianship for Nico and the beginning processes with our new son Nate. We also plan to start the building process next month for our home.
We love and miss you all!
Caleb, Alair, Nico and Nate
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