The Father's Love in Action

Praises and Prayer

Pray for trip #5 as we plan to take a men's trip to work on Emmy's main new church and some playground equipment for the children as a Christmas gift for them. Pray for the Spirit to move those men who He wants to be a part of this trip.
Pray for trip #4, it is vast approaching next month in April. There will be another crusade, this time in Mbarara for 3 days as well as trips to some of our PCM churches we have never visited.
Pray for Pastor Charles. He has become quite weak lately in early 2010 and his HIV infection is causing his weight to decrease. Just two months ago at Christmas he looked incredibly strong. We are so thankful for Charles and his hands that have touched nearly every brick at our school site. Please pray that the Lord restore his strength and give him many more days.
We ask for prayer for this journey#4 for Christmas. It is a long one and will include 2 all day flights with an overnight in London. We pray for our 9 fifty pound bags all to arrive safely as they are filled with blessings for our orphan children and pastors. Pray for sleep for us and smooth flights. We are so thankful for your prayers. It was a very smooth trip. Besides the lack of power at the Tropic Inn, it was an amazing experience to be there for Christmas. The power of the Kanoni Crusade surely made up for it.
11/16/09 We praise God for our friends from Longview Texas. The "Sewing Angels" Together they hand made 222 pillow cases for our children at Parental Care School Mbarara. Here is a portion of an email from Annette: In one week's time, we were able to find brightly colored sheets on sale for 75%-80% off and 13 ladies from my church volunteered to work together to make the pillowcases. They made 112 on one day and completed the rest by the end of the week! On Sunday, we told two classes at church about your wonderful children and the pillowcase project. The donated $475--enough to pay for the sheets and to pay for some Christmas coloring books that we want to send to the children and maybe some extra for pillows! Isn't God great? Only He could have completed this project in such a short time!We were thrilled to be there to give these special Christmas presents to the orphans. What a joy it was to see them come forward one at a time to select a pillow case. Check out this link from the Tyler Paper. Sewing Angles . We are thankful again for Mike and Annette. They are hard at work with plans for the children for PCM trip #5.
Thank the Lord for the provision of the well and the clean water that is flowing. Never again will anyone die drawing water for the orphans. That is good now that we also learned the river has been having hippos come visit and the park rangers have had to deal with them. Pray now for the bath houses and that we may be able to build them soon. I am so pleased to report that in early October 2009 the girl's bath house is now being constructed........Wahoo!! The boy's bathhouse is up and well under construction in November 2009. The bathhouses are complete and fully functional.
Once the rains come, it will take 4 months for food to be grown by the farmers. The price of food is going up quickly. By about 30%. It is our biggest monthly expense for the orphans. Right now it costs us just 13 cents a meal to feed them a meal, or 39 cents a day for each orphan. Amazing but it adds up quickly. As food becomes harder to find, the price will increase. Praise: Due to some generous donations we have been able to purchase 2 months of food this August for September and October to store in case the price continues to rise. People are now digging for food as of 10/09. The crop won't be ready till February 2010. Pray that the Lord provide the extra funds for us to be able to purchase enough foods for the orphans. Praise the Lord that we have been able to purchase enough food through December of 2009. The price will start to go down soon as the food will be ready in 2010. Praise the Lord that the food price has decreased due to the abundance of food now availble and our ability with the truck to now buy direct with the truck.
Now we need to pray for rain. There has been no rain in southwest Uganda since November 2008. The people are traveling many miles to draw water and sometimes carry it, sometimes putting it on their bikes if they have one. The cattle are starving to death nearly. This land needs rain. Praise: The rain has now started as 8/21/09. What a blessing. HE REIGNS. We are pleased to report as of 10/14/09 that the rain is still falling. We are pleased to announce in March 2010 that the food has grown very well.
We praise you Lord for our "new assistant" Christie Hayes. She is helping us stay organized as we grow and we are so happy to have her with us, me especially. We are so thankful for her efforts to the ministry as she finds time between mothering her three small children. Wahooo Christie!!! If you have gotten anything recently in the mail it came from her. If you do in the future, it will be from her. She will be our technical blogmeister for our upcoming PCM trip #4. We are so blessed to have her organizational ability. It is awesome.
Pray that the Lord reveal a strategy to make Emmy's case known to officials in our country that would help enable a US visa. He has been denied 4 times now, our county says he doesn't have "strong enough ties." They think he is an immigrant waiting to stay in our country on arrival. Nothing could be farther than the truth. We are trusting God that" there is a time and season for everything" (Ecc 3:1). As of 9/7/09 please begin to pray for Pastor Emmy and Sarah for visas to England for the end of the year. Two purposes would be to meet up with some of our US PCM board members in London for a retreat to plan the next 18-24 months. Also, to meet with a team from the United Kingdom and their church. Wahoo.......Pastor Emmy and his wife Sarah got a visa to England. They will come to England, plan with some of our PCM board and then stay in England for a few weeks to visit friends and supporter 10/14/09. Pray for Supermom. It will be her first flight and her first time outside of Africa. It shall be a great visit to the United Kingdom.
Some violence broke out this second week of September in the capital of Kampala as the President Museveni and central government have prevented one of the tribal leader kings from visiting a certain local rally. Here is an email from Emmy that i just received to further explain: Keep us in your prayers because there have started some tribe violence in Uganda. In Uganda we had more than 15 Kingdoms almost and the Baganda Kingdom was the most famous and largest. They are located in central Uganda near the capital. But almost each tribe had their own King. Milton Obote, who was the Prime Minister years ago, fought the King and took over as the President and declaired Uganda to be a Republic Country. But when the current President Museveni came into Power twenty years ago, he re-established the Kings again and now the King of Buganda want to take back even those Parts they had conquered from other Tribes and those people are also saying we have our own king you shouldn't come to take us over. So now violence has started because the Baganda are saying that the Central Government is siding with the others not favoring them. Yesterday the violence was big in Kampala and people burn things and vehicles and killed some. Keep us in your prayers. Lord we pray that this violence come to an end. It could really cause much harm to the people of Uganda and the efforts of so many to help them. Bring your peace to these people. We are happy to report that the violence in Kampala has quieted down. Thank you for your prayers. 10/09
Pray that the Lord reveal a strategy to make Emmy's case known to officials in our country that would help enable a US visa. He has been denied 4 times now, our county says he doesn't have "strong enough ties." They think he is an immigrant waiting to stay in our country on arrival. Nothing could be farther than the truth. We are trusting God that" there is a time and season for everything" (Ecc 3:1). As of 9/7/09 please begin to pray for Pastor Emmy and Sarah for visas to England for the end of the year. Two purposes would be to meet up with some of our US PCM board members in London for a retreat to plan the next 18-24 months. Also, to meet with a team from the United Kingdom and their church. Wahoo.......Pastor Emmy and his wife Sarah got a visa to England. They will come to England, plan with some of our PCM board and then stay in England for a few weeks to visit friends and supporter 10/14/09
Pray for others to come along our orphan sponsorship program: right now we are 50% funded of our operational budget in Mbarara Uganda. We are open to speaking to other churches, schools and groups about sharing this great work with them. We are continuing to get sponsors but need your help. If all of our sponsors could find one more sponsor we would be fully funded!!