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
