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Dear Brethren: Jesus is the center piece in God’s redemptive Story! Jesus’ birth brought glory to God in the heavens for it revealed God’s character: love, mercy, and compassion. Jesus’ birth brought peace to men, Before writing this letter, I spent a great deal of time meditating on the proclamation of the heavenly hosts in Luke 2:14. Particularly, I thought about the parallelism: In the Highest-On earth
In spite of the carols, hymns, and Christmas cards that proclaim glory to God, I had not fully considered the heavenly side of the angelic proclamation: “glory to God in the highest.” As I reflected on the passages that address God’s motivation for Jesus’ incarnation, I noticed a continual theme: God’s love, mercy, and compassion. In reality, these are attributed of God, and whenever God reveals Himself, He is glorified. Jesus’ incarnation, as a Supreme expression of God’s love, mercy, and compassion, not only brings peace to us, but it brings glory to God. Today, over 2000 year after Jesus’ birth the angelic proclamation is as relevant as it was on the night of His birth. God is still being glorified through Christ: people are still finding peace. Uganda Missions exists to raise up a new generation through the orphans in our care to be proclaimers who will take the message of peace; who will bring glory to God by telling of His love. Brethren, we have just closed our celebration of the Thanksgiving season and now as we look forward to the Christmas season, we are reminded of the faithfulness of God toward us. In this same spirit the brethren in Uganda and I want to say thank you for your love and support to this ministry. We are able to fulfill the Master’s will because of the love and support of friends like you. It is not by chance that the LORD has united us together and as we make a difference in the lives of people in Uganda, please know you are part of our impact. The Bible tells us in John 9:4 we must work while it is day because night cometh when no man can work. Therefore it is with great determination that we work to teach men and women of God’s love for them. MINISTRY: In February we thought we will lose one of our little girls. Ruth was playing with her friends, a motorcycle run over her as she was crossing over to go on the other side of the village road. This was a great test for us. The nearest hospital is in the radius of 15 miles. But not only that, her helpless body had to be transported in a wooden box on a motorcycle. You have to ride on those roads and know how rough it might have been for this little girl with all the pain she was going through. Everybody thought that she will not be able to withstand that kind of trauma and survive. Indeed God still does miracles. She survived the ride, the surgery and about a week after her discharge from the hospital, then her tummy started swelling. Again she was back at the hospital and God healed her. She is doing well. It is this kind of need that we need your help to raise up funds to buy a 4 wheel drive vehicle to help in this type of need. At the beginning of October, we lost a very dear sister. She was one of our pastor’s wife. Annette went into labor in a little clinic where they have been ministering for over 10 years with her husband. She delivered her baby, but then started bleeding very heavily. By the time they went to look for transportation; to transport her to a bigger hospital, she had lost so much blood and died. She left behind 3 little children. Annette was missed by so many. She was kind and mentored so many young girls. Pray for the pastor and his children. Again, during the Thanksgiving week, pastor Wasswa, lost his wife. She had an aneurysms, she passed after being discharged from the hospital. She also leaves behind 3 children. The oldest child is only 14 years. She was a teacher. This has been a very tough year for our ministry. Pray for us as we are trying to bring closure to all this pain.
Good News: Now this is the good news, we want to share with you. In July, our children received brand new pairs of shoes and socks. This may not be a big deal to some of you, because most of you grew up with a pair of shoes on your feet or even several pairs. But to a child who has never owned a pair of new or old shoes. This is a big deal. You can only imagine the excitement, the joy those kids had. They were so grateful for receiving such a gift. NEEDS: In such a ministry where you care for poor people. There are going to be many pressuring needs. This is where our faith is tested every single day. We all know how the world economy has left many without work; and most of the time, a ministry which is not mainstream is likely to face many challenges in the finances. It is not that we are not effective as the mainstream ministries. But rather we mostly are dependent on friends like you who pass on word of mouth to others to help us fulfill what we are called to do. We don’t have any dollars to spare for advertizing ourselves, that is why we depend on anybody who is touched by our work we do. You notice that we don’t send out newsletters as we often did. It is because of the cost of everything. The price of food has gone so high. Uganda is recovering from a draught experienced 2 years ago. With the gasoline at a high cost, everything goes high. We have also outgrown our bathroom facilities. The government health inspector has been fining us and by the beginning of next year we have to build new toilets. We have a deadline put on us or else they will close us. We have to close the old facilities and build a total of eight bathrooms. The total cost of this project is estimated to $20,000. Uganda imports most of the building stuff and it is so expensive. We need your help. We really don’t know how we will deal with the kids if we are to be closed down. Our kids need school uniforms which will help us so much in clothes buying. We were given an estimate of $3,000 for each child to have 3 uniforms.
We have cut off many poor children from our feeding program. We can’t just afford to do it and be able to feed our own kids. This has been the toughest decision we had to make. You ask yourself, “who really needs this kind of protein food?” Because, all the other kids may have parents, but they too are so poor that without us providing the protein food, they are malnourished. Even with our own kids, we cannot afford to put sugar in their drink now. Which helps them to have a little energy, throughout the day. As you know, we educate our own kids. It would be so expensive if we paid school fees to each of the children in our care. We pay salaries to the principal, teachers, and pastors. This is also a great need. No good teacher without a good salary would like to stay and teach in a village deep in the rural areas. So we have to give out salaries which attract good teachers to stay with us. This is a great challenge now for us. And there is no way we can cut corners or we will be raising up kids without education. This being the truth, as we know that food, shelter, and medicine can sustain a life, but transform a child’s life nothing compares to education. This truth is at the center of the work we do in our orphanage, where we have seen the power that education has to break children out of the cycle of poverty. You’ve have seen the pictures of those orphans in the past few years, who have graduated from Makerere University. Education increases self-confidence. Education teaches children how to make and pursue life goals. Education provides hope and a pathway to a better life. Uganda has the highest percentage of orphans in the entire world. And yet education remains out of reach to many children in Uganda. There are too few schools-and it’s expensive to pay for the school fees. We have our own school, but it’s getting so expensive to pay the teachers, etc. We cannot afford to send our kids to other schools; otherwise we cannot provide for their daily basic needs. We need your support and prayers to pay teachers and continue our school going. GOALS: We are still committed to preach the Gospel that sets the captives free. And will continue to do so. Our women’s ministry helping them sale their handmade crafts here in the USA needs prayers and many people to promote it as it helps our women with AIDS and those who are poor to improve their standard of living. I personally thank all the ladies who have helped in hosting their products or selling them. We need more to join this effort as it brings hope to these women to work hard toward achieving their goals. As I am closing, I want to let you know that “I can’t help but marvel at what the LORD has done in you and through this ministry all year long.” His favor has allowed us to influence the parts of villages we minister to with the Gospel in many ways I never would have imagined years ago. I couldn’t have made something this big happen on my own- that’s how I know God is moving. My part was the willingness to change and obey, so I could enter God’s wonderful, sometimes crazy plan for us. As we look forward to a New Year, I want to leave you with this thought, “God knows who you are and where He wants to take you, but you need a shift in your thinking to go there. Most importantly, you must trust His voice instead of the voices telling you not to shift…voices that would have you settle for “normal”. NORMAL life is what the world offers-not what God wants most for you. Many voices will be quick to inform you about “you,” but there is only ONE you can trust! Trust God and let Him always guide you. Follow the Star and you will find your Savior! May you have a Merry Christmas, full of peace and joy! Pray for us, as we also continue to lift you up in our prayers. Blessings, Solome Musisi
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