Join the Life Flow to Uganda
Dear Friends of TCI,
Recently, a statement in a sermon stood out to us: “Each and every one of us is called to something beyond our capacity.” We cannot believe that TCI is now 5 years old. What has been accomplished is way beyond our capacity!
Thank you to all who have helped us through prayer or by giving. You have joined us in what we have come to think of as the “LIFE FLOW.” Jesus said “I came that they would have life and have it abundantly.” Your support is bringing life - abundant life not only to the physical and the emotional wellbeing of the people we are serving, but it is bringing many into abundant spiritual life through Jesus.
The initial focus of TCI was to equip people in Western Uganda with the mindset and skills to fund the education of their children. This involves “paradigm shift training" which is very effective in enabling people to see their potential, what they can do with their resources and how they can reach their dreams to get out of poverty.
It was never our intention to become involved with a starving, marginalized, forgotten group of about 5000 Karamojong in Uganda. But somehow it seems to have been the Lord's! Three years after beginning in Western Uganda with our paradigm shift programs, we had gained a lot of experience and the principles of paradigm shift training were working! The wonderful thing was that our team started to look outward and beyond themselves to those in danger of starving in Karamoja.
Isaac and Gilbert, our two medical personnel, visited Karamoja in July 2022 and were devastated by what they found and immediately wrote a proposal to take food relief there. It was going to cost about $15,000 to take food and do medical assessments. This amount of money seemed totally impossible for us, but not for God. It came in!
That was the beginning of the story in Karamoja. Since then, miraculously, at a cost of $19,000 monthly we have halted starvation deaths in five villages! This is way beyond our capacity but not God's. Health and hope have been restored. Grateful villagers are eagerly receiving the paradigm shift training which Isaac developed using Bible stories and embracing vegetable gardening for the first time.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAST MONTH
Continued community development through gardening and livelihood programs in Western Uganda and Karamoja
Provision for June food relief came in! The 5000 in 5 villages of Karamoja received food once more.
The flooded yellow sorghum and maize in Karamoja have recovered and turned green (photo above). PRAY for continued rain and for a harvest - it will be the first in 4 years.
The pigs in the livelihood projects have produced 35 piglets this past month.
Two more classrooms at Kanara Primary School were completed with much rejoicing as the building was handed over on Monday. The school is looking so good!
42 TCI sponsored students in Western Uganda and 17 in Karamoja are flourishing in schools
Frank had a productive meeting with Innovation Africa when he was in Israel. This NGO constructs and operates solar boreholes (wells) and we are currently working to establish a collaboration. They are enthusiastic about our sustainable agricultural methods.
PLEASE JOIN THE "LIFE FLOW " and PRAY FOR THESE CURRENT NEEDS:
The building of two classrooms at Jerusalem Primary School as recently as they had to break down two which had developed a very large crack.
50 desks at Kanara Primary Desks to make the new classrooms learning centers.
Ongoing food relief for Karamoja.
CONSISTENT RAIN FOR KARAMOJA so that we have a harvest.
OUR TRIP IN AUGUST Frank and Sue are excited to be returning with a team of seven in August.
We thank you so much for helping us do something beyond our capacity.
TOGETHER, we have made an incredible difference to thousands of lives!!