Nkumba Boarding School
As I ride across America, I will be sharing with people the needs of a ministry that my husband Dan encountered on a recent mission trip to Uganda. While there, he met an amazing pastor with a huge heart. His name is John Mugabi. He oversees a Christian boarding school that takes in children, many of whom are orphaned by AIDS or who come from families who are unable to provide the barest of living necessities for these children. Let me give you a little of the history of this school.
In 2005, John was asked by church leadership in Uganda to pastor Nkumba Presbyterian Church and to direct Nkumba Christian Primary School. The boarding school is used to provide education and a clean place to live for the children who were living in prison with their incarcerated parents and for all of the orphaned children for whom he wanted to care. John agreed to take on the church and school, and under his supervision, both have flourished.
John quickly realized that just a primary school was not sufficient. A high school was necessary, too. He opened the high school, (May Christian College Nkumba) with the barest of necessities in February of 2006. With both the primary and high school operational, all of the sponsored children are now able to attend school on the same campus. This makes caring for them and ensuring a Christian education and spiritual training much easier.
As I ride across America, I will be sharing with people the needs of a ministry that my husband Dan encountered on a recent mission trip to Uganda. While there, he met an amazing pastor with a huge heart. His name is John Mugabi. He oversees a Christian boarding school that takes in children, many of whom are orphaned by AIDS or who come from families who are unable to provide the barest of living necessities for these children. Let me give you a little of the history of this school.
In 2005, John was asked by church leadership in Uganda to pastor Nkumba Presbyterian Church and to direct Nkumba Christian Primary School. The boarding school is used to provide education and a clean place to live for the children who were living in prison with their incarcerated parents and for all of the orphaned children for whom he wanted to care. John agreed to take on the church and school, and under his supervision, both have flourished.
John quickly realized that just a primary school was not sufficient. A high school was necessary, too. He opened the high school, (May Christian College Nkumba) with the barest of necessities in February of 2006. With both the primary and high school operational, all of the sponsored children are now able to attend school on the same campus. This makes caring for them and ensuring a Christian education and spiritual training much easier.
Program Sponsorship:
$42 per month covers Christian education, room and board, medical care, personal hygiene items, and a school uniform and shoes. Most of the children who are sponsored are orphans, though a few have come from living in prison (with an incarcerated parent) or from exceptionally poor homes. As of today, there are 49 sponsored children, and plenty on the waiting list. The school also "stretches" the money we send, because they have many more students (orphans, etc) who attend the school who pay little or no school fees. As John phrases it, "We are always squeezing it up" (I think like a tube of toothpaste--squeezing it to get out the very most and not waste anything).
This “grassroots” program is administered by Global Training Network, the mission organization that my husband Dan and I are a part of. We are sponsoring a young girl, who has recently lost her father, and without this help would not be able to go to school. I invite you to consider sponsoring a child as well. It only takes a little money to make a huge difference in a child’s life. If you are interested in this and would like more information, please contact Cindy May at cindy.may@integrity.com.
