Ebenezer Summer 2016 Update

Ebenezer Children’s Ministry is once again pleased you’re support and encouragement from every key player in the ministry. Your support matters a lot in our existence. We believe that all is well and pray for you.

HEALTH OF THE CHILDREN

We give God glory who has kept our children alive and healthy in the month of July and August, a part from minor flu on a few children compared to last months were many had malaria. Except Shakur who have been on ARVS treatment, who weakened and was rushed to Kibuku Hospital where he was transferred to Mbale regional Hospital and later referred to Mild May in Kampala for proper management. By 23^rd of August Shakur had somehow improved and was discharged. However at the end of August Shakur got Tyhiod and had continued diarrhea that caused for medical attention in Jinja children’s hospital. He is going well now and is being fostered by a family in Jinja while he recovers from his illnesses.

EDUCATION

We are so grateful to our sponsors who have supported our children throughout the term that school fees and requirement are provided in time which has made our children settle in the class. We also thank our visitors from Hope Grafted in Ministry – USA who came on 27^th- 28^th of July 2016 they blessed us with books, pens, and crayon pencils. They also distributed to teenage girls sanitary pads, may God bless them.

A profile of some of children who got scholastic materials from their sponsors as gifts.

In the month of August, we have been able to do end of term exams and our children got there holidays on 26^th of august 2016, and will return on the 19^th of September for the third term.

FEEDING

Our children have undergone very good feeding of balanced diet of addition of eggplants, groundnuts past, greens and plenty of fruits; watermelon, pineapples, ripe bananas, like in the meal intervals and the porridge feeding of children 8 years and below at 4 pm every day.

This has boosted children`s health and we thank God who has provided through our sponsors may God bless them abundantly.

In the month of August however, we did not receive this fund and the children kept asking for fruits however we are trusting for provision.

VISITORS

We thank God for our visitors from USA on 27^th-28^th July2016, they blessed us with many items; food, fruits, clothes, shoes, infant milk, medicines. They also spent precious time with our children, many of
children had to interact with their sponsors like Bashir, Jovia, and Gabriel among others, which was so encouraging, they had many games fun and songs this made them so happy.

Aunt Cindy who was on the visiting team also visited Kibuku Health Centre IV and they were able to supply clothes of about 50 newly born babies in this month.

Community out-reach around, old women in ten households were provide with soap, sugar, rice, beans and tea leaves

They also distributed to schools around sanitary pads to teenagers. We are so grateful and thank them for their generosity that they showed to our schools and the community of Kibuku.

Some of the teenagers who received sanitary pads

FARMING

Farming as an activity helps in low expenditure on food instead of buying often, it also helps in nutrition. We thank God we have poultry farming where we are raising 150 birds that are growing well. We pray birds will benefit the children to boosts their nutrition.

The poultry farming

Child Sponsorship

We are so thankful for our sponsors. We have many children that still need a sponsor. Email us for more info.

Achievements

• Social Workers office building is ongoing and very soon it will be completed and documentation of the children data will be made and all gathered in one place.
• The plan drawings for our family homes are ongoing and hope to receive the final plans soon.
• We received ten mosquito nets for the children from community health plan.
• We hosted visitors from Hope Grafted in from USA who were a blessing to us.
• The temporal church structure is ongoing.

Update on Pastor and his family

My health has not been good for the whole month but have continued to believe God for healing both I and my wife got in stress when Shakur was sick to almost death point besides the car catching fire but we have managed to stand and will shall PRESS on until we achieve what the Lord has for our family.

Current Financial Needs

• We hope the construction of the temporal church will contribute to increased space as a result of increased number of believers who have massively responded due to greater commissions undertaken. This will be coupled with the initiatives of church programs like youth children women which will enhance on the behaviors change, increased motivation to prayers among others. We have begun the structure with gifts to date of $1000 from Hope Grafted In and $300 from Man Up. The balance needed for completion of the structure is estimated to $2700. See more detailed info on why we need this project here.

  

• Transport is our greatest need, as our core program is dealing with the children who may any time fall sick, and need to quickly be rushed to the hospital then vehicle is necessary, also for easy monitoring of these programs of the school, church and the children it worth noting that a vehicle is needed. Addition to the above, our shopping and Banks are as far as Mbale which about 30 to 40 minutes drive to have a transaction. A reliable vehicle will cost $5000 and we have raised $1300 so far.

Give to Ebenezer’s Needs. Thank you!

Prayer requests

• Join us in prayer for God’s provision in our Current planned programs.
• Construction of the family units as children’s home.
• Construction of the temporal church structure
• Construction of the children’s playground
• Ebenezer sponsorship program
• School cost sharing sponsorship program
• Besides pray for God health for our children more especially Shakur

Thank you,
Pastor George