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.

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.

House Progress

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.

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…

By Nabagesera Jessica, Investment Year Coordinator, NHU Staff since July 2005

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

Our Home

Our house in under way. We hope to be in by Christmas...