We are overwhelmed by your love toward us!! The cards, phone calls, packages, emails and blog responses; not to mention all the prayers that you send up that we have faith but not sight for . . . . . We are amazed by God’s abundance towards us through you. I don’t think we have any needs that are not met. When I think about what we might still need, it is hard not to think of only what we have already been given and the amazing ways God has provided the things that we wanted. He loves to give good gifts!
Because of this, I am shutting down the care package wish list, at least for the present time. I still hope some of you will send packages. We love to get mail from the outside world. The children, especially have been so abundantly blessed by the way God has replaced many of the things they gave up through your generosity. Receiving Christmas gifts from faces you’ve never seen heightens your awareness of God’s presence and provision. What we mostly want and need is the care and love that your packages demonstrate to us. When you send a package for the nationals, we will continue to distribute those. (Let me suggest that things such as clothes can be sent much more cheaply via surface mail.) But it is impossible for us to ask for things at this point. We have learned how to obtain a lot of things “locally” (in the city) and have learned to live without others.
We WILL begin asking, unhesitatingly and forwardly, for our 350 children at Christ School. We are amazed by the way small money can do big things for these kids. And we are more and more convinced that the secondary school model is unparalleled in it’s ability to fulfill our World Harvest mission to teach, heal and equip nationals. We are blessed and thankful to be a part of this ministry; to be able to impact so many at this crucial life stage. We are asking you to prayerfully consider how God is asking you to become a Christ School supporter. As you will soon see, we need support in all kinds of ways; everything from regular monthly donations to one time small or large gifts for mosquito nets, textbooks, uniforms, mattresses. We need sponsors for orphans and math tournaments and football competitions. Christ School is our calling here and we are welcoming you aboard for the journey.
Because of our incredible support situation (half of our support comes through our government pension and half through our sending church - WOW!), many of you have given an initial one time gift but we have not needed your monthly support. Now we are opening the door to a really beautiful way for you to be involved on an ongoing basis with what we are doing in Uganda. And truthfully, the need is so high and the rewards so great. You will be amazed by what is done for so many with so little.
We are trusting God’s provision for our school, just as He has provided so abundantly for us. Keep praying for us and thank God for our needs so fully met; and please begin thinking and praying about how you will financially be able to support Christ School in big or small ways. We are asking you to see supporting our school as the very best way to support us; we are asking you to transfer some of that hands-on, tangible love to Christ School. We are asking you to take a leap of faith from a person you know to a school you don’t yet know and trust that God is there and His voice is the one asking . . .