The Father's Love in Action

Projects

Phone/ Laptop Project. Do you have a smartphone or a laptop that is in good condition but is not needed anymore? We have many pastors and teachers who could benefit greatly from a phone or a laptop. Believe it or not, there is actually good cell phone reception in Uganda. Many of these third world countries have realized that it is much easier to put up cell phone towers than to try to run phone lines to houses. So, you can be in the middle of nowhere walking through a banana plantation and have perfect cell phone reception! However, most of these pastors and teachers do not have electricity in their homes so they will need phones and computers that have a good battery life. If you have a phone or a laptop that you think would be in good enough shape to give please contact us at justin@pcmonline.org. We would love to have used iphones to give to them, but we will take any good quality phones with chargers.
The Tilapia Project. We are partnering with local marine biologist Bill Kirby to grow fish for our orphan and needy children. The program is in the planning phase but we hope to have several ponds going on our new land this fall, with our first harvest to follow. We will eat all we can and sell the rest. Praise God for this opportunity to increase the protein in our children's diet.
Cows for the Kingdom. PCM has started this project in March 2010 to provide milk cows for some of our pastors. For $500, a pastor can receive a cow that will change his life forever. Each day the cow can be milked, the milk brought to one of the many collection centers and the pastors could earn $3-4 a day. Enough to sustain them and their families. (3/7/10) We now have 20 of our 43 cows sponsored. (June 27,2010)

PCM Desk Project. Now that we have 2 new classrooms, we now need to fill it with desks instead of plastic chairs. We need around 43 desks for P5 and P6. They are about $35 each. Total cost of project is about $1500.
- Buy a Pastor a Bike. For just $100 USD you can donate the funds to provide a bike for a rural Ugandan pastor. You may not realize, but a bike is an incredible blessing in Uganda. You can carry almost anything on it....food (bananas people, church pews, worship drums, mattress frames......you name it, it can be done. What is most common are the 5 gallon yellow jerrycan containers filled with water. Some of the pastors are walking miles just to draw water for their family and walking back with it. A bike makes this trek so much easier. About 14 of our 43 pastors could use a bike. Here is our first Pastor to receive a bike. Pastor David. Look at the joy on his face. Here is Pastor George with his new bike given in April of 2010. He said it would greatly improve his ability to preach the Gospel throughtout rural Uganda.

Hearts for Change Jan 2010:
Last year Grace Community School became involved with a school and an orphanage in Mbarara, Uganda. Some of our staff has visited, our students have sent letters, we helped finance a well for desperately needed clean water, and first graders provided pillows. At chapel on January 12, we kicked off our “Hearts for Change” effort. Through Valentine’s Day we will deposit spare change in special containers in the lunchroom to help towards the $5,000.00 needed to build a new classroom. You can see the same exciting video we watched in chapel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgzPtfpG7x8 . We are excited to see what the Lord does. “…My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.” Hosea 11:8 We are pleased to announce the full funding of this project. Construction is nearly complete as of March 2010 for the P6 classroom. Praise God for all those who contributed a nickel or many nickels.
Christmas Project 2009 Our 2009 Christmas project is for a truck for use in our ministry like this one. The main three purposes of this vehicle will be:
1. To carry Gospel equipment (generator, projector, Jesus film, speakers) to rural areas for evangelism. This will allow all the pastors a chance to reach those in very remote areas. Never before have they had such Gospel equipment.
2. We will be able to purchase food directly from the village farmers and transport to school (saving us 30% on food). This will also allow for a diet rich in vegetables and other fruits instead of just potatoes, bananas and beans. The truck will nearly pay for itself in cost savings in about 1 year.
3. It will also help us transport construction materials to our site for help completing all the projects at our site. Our fundraising goal for this entire project this year is $25000. Our God is so good. He has provided our own truck, "The Happy Little Dump Truck." Thank you for all of those who gave to our 2009 Christmas Project. It is already being used to help the orphan children and to spread the Good News. 12/25/09

Christmas Pillow Project We are providing all of our 204 PCM boarder orphan children with a pillow. They have never had one. We already have made 200+ hand made personalized pillowcases and we will be purchasing a pillow in Mbarara on our arrival in December. Total need for project is $1250. For just $5 you can give an orphan a pillow for Christmas. Give as many as you would like!! Word cannot describe the joy we experienced being there Christmas 2009 passing out these gifts. THANK YOU SEWING ANGELS!!

Buy a CD. We now have an audio CD drive underway to raise money for the orphan food supply. The PC School Choir's 1st CD titled "What the Lord Has Done for Us" is now available. The cost is $5 and and extra dollar if you want us to mail to you. What will we do with the $5. Well, it will pay for about 50 meals for the orphans. Wow...please order as many as you would like. They are great gifts too. Just email us with your order and we can ship or meet up with you to deliver.

PCM "Abias" Bath House Project. Click here to see the video. What clearly is the biggest need are the bath houses for the orphans. The orphans currently bathe on bricks surrounded by papyrus mats and metal that are falling apart. They are grateful for the clean water to use but what we need is a girl's house and a boy's house made of cement. The bath houses are well under construction and will be completed soon thanks from the gifts from many. As of 11/16/09 this project is now closed. Wahoo!!!!

Water Erosion Trench. A large trench was formed last fall running down the middle of our land separating 1/2 of the property. It is a huge danger to the children from falling in and breaking their arms or legs. The erosion is close to coming under our current kitchen and comprising that building. Though there is no rain (we have faith though it is coming), we need to fix it now to keep the ditch from getting deeper and being a bigger threat. Help us fix this trench now. We have successfully purchased a drain and are in the process of installing it now. Total remaining need $5000 USD

ROBERT's Well project. The well is complete. Clean water is providing a huge improvement to the quality of life of these Ugandan children. Pastor Emmy's nephew, Robert Mukwaya, died drawing water for these children. He fell in the swift current in November of 2008, was unable to swim and drowned. The well is named in his honor...Robert's Well. It has been drawing water strong since February 2009. This project is completed.

ESTHER BLANKET project. The blanket project is complete. Each of the 204 boarder orphans has received a nice quality blanket to sleep with this August 2009. What a blessing. Thank you Jeske family.

IVAN SHOE Project. Under the leadership of the Lola's (a women's group in Tyler Texas) over $400 was raised in Decmeber of 2008 to cover the cost for shoes for all of the ophans who currently have no shoes at all. What a huge blessing. The shoes were purchased and given to the orphans. This means now that every child will have at least one pair of shoes.