November News

Dear Friends and Family,
As we approach Thanksgiving, we have much to be thankful for, from Caleb’s health, to our time in the States with family and opportunities to spend time with many of you. We have been blessed this past year by the outpouring of love, concern, care, and prayers on our behalf by the family of God here in the U.S. and by our community of believers in Uganda. We have rejoiced with one of our Pacific family young man who received the gift of salvation and has committed to becoming a disciple of Christ, and we thank God in advance as we proudly anticipate the graduation of 5 secondary school (high school) students in our family next month. We have also seen our Father’s hand of grace and provision in countless ways in the lives of so many of you… we remember and celebrate the works of His hand!
There is indeed a time and season for every purpose under heaven, and we have been blessed this season to have spent 2 ½ months in California and look forward to our remaining 2 months in Indiana. We continue to enjoy watching our boys get to know their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and some of our dear friends. Here in Indiana Caleb is working part time for the YMCA, Nicolas loves attending preschool 2 days a week, and Nate and Mama are reveling in their together time (a direct result of the activity of Daddy and big brother). We are very aware that the next 2 months will go by fast, and so we are preparing for our return to Uganda, by speaking at churches, with small groups, and Sunday school classes.
We are currently raising support for a solar powered water pump for New Hope’s secondary site and for the ministry to equip our family units with solar powered lighting. If you would like to help with either of those projects please contact us via email at calebandalair@hotmail.com You can also give to support us personally by going to the website at www.newhopeuganda.org and clicking the donate button on the top right hand corner. Select the appropriate giving category and write our names in the comment box.
Please pray that we would… look carefully then how we walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of our time (Ephesians 5:15&16). Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:20).
The Mitchells,
Caleb, Alair, Nicolas, and Nathaniel
Ps 68:5-6

Through It All

Psalm 124:1-8

”If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,” Let Israel now say––
“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
Then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
Then the swollen waters would have gone over our soul.”
Blessed be the LORD, Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.”
The words of the Psalmist above, make lots of meaning to us as Musana Radio as we come to the close of our second year of service. We praise God for your love and support through the prayers, encouragement, counsel, giving and the many ways in which you have been part of what God is doing here at Musana Radio.

If it had not been for the Lord, Musana would not have survived this year.
Twice last year, our station was hit by lightening and our consuls were damaged. We are so thankful to God that some of you responded and we got urgent help to replace them. What we did not realize was that the transmitter had been affected and was gradually losing power. By the time we realized this, it had dropped from 1000KW to 15%, literary only reaching that fraction of broadcast. We had to close the station. Experts took it for repair and found out that the damages were big and that we needed to replace it. This was a big blow to us and to our listeners who had become so used to their Radio that it had made them one big family of Musana. Incredibly, we were off air

for three weeks ONLY and through your very generous support the Lord provided for us and we replaced the transmitter. This was a miracle!

By the time we went off air, we had started a teaching on witchcraft which stirred a lot of issues and many people were being set free. This has been a big issue in our country and there has not been a clear voice to address this matter. Musana Radio has been a tremendous tool in addressing this and many are testifying of how they have been set free from witchcraft ever since these teachings started. The teachings have been very vital in preparing the Nation for the 49th Independence celebrations which we had on October 9th as we ushered in the year of Jubilee for our country.

For the big part of the year we have not had enough electrification. We have mostly depended on a generator and fuel to power our station. This has also been very costly.

But through it all we want to thank God for you, our esteemed supporters. Thank you very much for standing with us in our mission of “SHINE AND TRANSFORM”. Through your prayers, encouragements and financial support, we can say, Ebenezer!

We are also thankful for our listenership. Despite the circumstances of being on and off air, our listenership has continued to grow. And more so in terms of what the Lord is doing in their lives. Again and again we hear stories of how people have learnt how to work hard, invest money and start up small projects like poetry, fish farming and others. All as a result of the teachings that we do on Radio, in which we promote three main values, that is, Hard work, Integrity and Love.

To mention but a few, we cannot fail to be thankful for our team that has worked tirelessly and patiently with little pay but believing in the growth of the station. This team of young men and women, most of whom were not believers by the time we took them on, we are grateful for what the Lord is doing in each of their lives. Some have come to know the Lord from there, some have sanctified their marriages, others have got married and others are continuing to amaze the community in which they live because of the big change those who knew them before are seeing in their lives.
By Godfrey Kyazze, Head of Curriculum Development

Construction Help Needed

Praise God that we have almost completed our Standard of Living Matching Funds grant. This grant is already starting to be used to help in providing some much-deserved raises for our national staff and to do some home improvements. Unfortunately, we have had to go very slowly on the home improvements simply because we currently have a serious shortage of construction staff.

While we continue to look in-country for construction help, we could really use construction experts and handy-man types help over this next year. We have 40+ solar units to install (this reduce our reliance on the unreliable grid system here) and a number of water tanks and indoor plumbing to install. If could help us install these items or do general maintenance and would be available to volunteer here for a week, one month, three months, six months etc., we would love to talk to you.

Please contact us through our website.