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Fall 2024 Mission Trip to Uganda
A Mission Trip Marked by Transformation and Joy An evangelistic team returned with the best report from a mission trip last week. The team was truly...
A New Chapter
Haria is one of our girls we have helped support through school to be a Mid Wife. Her training was a little over a year and a half and very...
A New Well
We will be drilling another well in the village of Busowobi in the next few weeks. The man that does the drilling of the well comes to survey the...
Bibles
I forgot to mention in my Sunday School post that the second early morning Bible study had three new people come and only two from the previous week...
Children’s Weekend
Two weeks ago we started planning a weekend for our American friends that are staying at OVU school to come out and see what we do and spend some...
Happy Resurrection Day!
“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never...
Loving God’s Children
Every Sunday we have anywhere from 110-160 children attend Sunday School. On holidays and kids days where we have games and activities we have had...
Loving the Motherless
Three and a half years ago a twelve year old girl came to a church we were visiting. She stood and asked if anyone could help her and her brothers...
Mandate Uganda Rabbit Farm
Mandate Uganda has built a rabbit farm with 200-300 rabbits for breeding purposes. Our plan is to create awareness on the benefits of the meat...
Ms Joyce
Isaiah 1:17 says “Learn to do good; seek justice; correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause” We try to meet the...
Our Village
As we started off the new school year in Uganda on February 22nd, we couldn’t help but feel blown away by all of the ‘new’. This included many new...
Persistence and Perseverance
We have been breeding and raising rabbits now for over two years. Change is hard to make in this country so it has been a slow and some times...
Perspective
Christian and I have been doing a study of 1 Corinthians and last night what we read about judging others really hit home for me. It has enabled me...
Pray for “Our Village” Interns
On June 8th two college students from different colleges, Jessica White and Olivia Smith, embarked on a two month journey to work alongside The...
Preaching to the Forgotten
Every week Christian goes to the prison on the town near us. It’s been almost a year of going every week and there have been hundreds that have...
Rain or Shine
Let me ask you, how many people do you know would walk through pouring rain, through mud in the chill of morning to hear the Word of God? I know of...
Salima
Salima is such a go-getter. There is never a time when she is not doing something. She says she does not like to be idle. On her breaks from school...
Solar for Windows
One widow’s family were so thankful for the solar lights because she is bedridden and they had to get up in the night in the dark to clean her...
Storytelling
Today we had close to sixty children come to hear the Bible story. I used the flannel board that was graciously given by an anonymous donor. To him...
Takia
“Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established” Proverbs 16:3 Takia is one of our girls that we have helped in school. She...
The Children at Sunday School
Late but better than never! Sunday was a great day, more children came and more answered and asked questions. I realize more and more that some at...
The Goat Project
Early on Raelee and I wanted to get a baby goat. They are “so cute and funny” when they are little. We got a male and female. Over the last two and...
This is Us
This has been one of the hardest posts for me to make. Because the focus is on us personally and we do not like to be the center of attention! But I...
Why I Beleieve In The Mandate by Jennifer Cummings
I grew up in a small community in East Texas. Despite my parents’ excellent work ethics, my family and I lived paycheck-to-paycheck during the good...
Together, We Can Go Further
Partnership is at the heart of our work. At Our Village, a major goal is to have people coming together from all walks of life and using their...
Heartbreak and Hopelessness
This week has been a great story week, Raelee has kept us and many readers of Facebook entertained. Today was no exception but with a sad reason....
Mat Collection
You see these mats everywhere, they are made from palm leaves that are sun dried and then dyed. Then they weave beautiful patterns into them. Mostly...