Annual Report 2015 LIVING HOPE UGANDA’S REVIEW OF THE YEAR
Living Hope Uganda Saved to Serve Others!
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iving Hope Uganda Transforms live and Communities by engaging into the physical and spiritual challenges of the underprivileged people and families thereby tackling the root cause of poverty in Uganda. Our Mission Changing lives and transforming communities in Uganda and beyond. Our Vision To give every person in uganda an opportunity to hear and respond to the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. Our Value Committed to Submit: creative, engaging, and persuasive proclamation of Jesus. Committed to Share: endeavoring to give out our talents, gifts and teasures so as to reach the lost in the world. Committed to Save: gathering and uniting all people around the essential truth of the gospel. Committed to Serve: Rejoicing in our salvation, serving one another and loving the lost.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Executive Director Our Transformation Our Future Our Mission Our Community empowerment Our Financials Our Thank you
Stategy Evangelistic Mission: reaching the lost for Jesus – evangelistic missions are out-door meetings conducted in desperate communities where the gospel has never penetrated before. Leadership training: church leaders and pastors are impacted with
leadership skills enabling them effectively build and edify the body of Christ. Sharing together: giving our gifts, talents and treasures to the poor through educating orphans, empowering families with sustainable skills and creating avenues to break poverty.
DEAR FRIENDS: This year marked our 8th year of service. It has been an incredible journey of exploration, innovation, and change. Throughout the last eight years, we have seen the impact of our programs in Uganda and around the world, we have reached over 300 children, 500 families, 1,000 souls; providing education, food, skills empowerment, income generating opportunities, leading many to Christ and planting churches. We have been touched by the generosity and love that people have shown us by donating, praying, sharing and telling others about us, opening their homes, churches to hear the incredible stories and work about the children and people in Uganda. Thank you for being part of Living Hope Uganda. The work we do wouldn’t be possible without your support. As a donor, child sponsor, one-timely giver or friend, you help tell our story and change the lives of Children, Women, families and communities across the world. We look toward the future with deep gratitude, hope, and excitement. WebaleNyo, Thank you so much for making these eight years possible and keep supporting us to Change many Lives and Transform communities. We are excited as we look to the future and the thousands of lives we will Change together. Sincerely,
Elijah Musoke Honeymo Executive Director
OUR TRANSFORMATIONAL MODEL
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his year, Living Hope Uganda has reached to over 1800 people through our projects helping them gain access to improved education, nutrition, medical, income generation, and right relationship with God. Poor household families have launched small manageable farms of pigs, goats, birds, gardens and craft shops thus establishing sustainable income that enables them to provide basic needs for their families. IMPACT SAVING SCHEME While in our campaign to break the cycle of poverty among poor household families, we advise, inspire members of the family to adapt to a saving culture. We started a small church monitored saving scheme where
members to it save on a weekly basis. This has helped and still helping many not to eat everything that comes into their pockets, and many women and youth have launched small-manageable businesses for themselves. HOLISTIC SUPPORT We recognize that lack of income isn’t the only thing keeping poor household families in extreme poverty. Depending on the needs of each community, we partner with individuals, churches, and organizations to donate animals, birds, clothes, scholastic, sports equipment, mosquito nets, deworming & vitamin tablets, water wells and more so that we may help improve the lives of poor people especially children.
BACK TO GOD Biblically, curses and blessing is a choice. Our failure to obey God’s commandments leads us into curses whereas obedience to God’s commandments automatically leads into a blessing (Deut. 28). We realize many people have lost right relationship with their creator, many voodoo worship and children sacrificed for blessings and wealth. Our evangelistic Team stage out-door crusades calling people back to God by confessing their sins, denounce evil practices and turn faith to God. Our Love for God is evidenced by our love for others, as people change their morals and behaviors a sign for bright future.
Our Missions:
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e reach out to many communities in Uganda with the gospel. In our last year’s outreaches over 1500 people gave their lives to Jesus in Kampala-Salaama, Mbale-Budaka, Entebbe, Nsangi-Nkungulutale, Wakiso-Buloba, and Kibale. We were privileged to officially launch City Life Church in the heart of Muslim and none-churched community of Buloba, in Wakiso District. We purchased the land and construction is on the first phase (that accommodates over 500 people) to the roof. Over 60-100 members usually attend our Services both Sunday and mid-week services. Lives are changing every day through prayer and the preaching of God’s Word.
Baptism
Soul-Win Crusade Entebbe Oct 27-Nov. 2nd, 2015 Nsangi-Nkungulutale Soul Harvest Nov. 14-21st, 2015
Impact Crusade – Budaka Nov.7th
Empowering Pastors & Church Leaders. Nov. 14-21st, 2015
Kibale Soul Win Crusade Sept, 2015
City Life Church-Buloba
Our Future “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ” ― Jane Austen e continue to give educating, feeding, give medical, scholastic, and counseling to over 300 impoverished children from Kindergarten to grade seven (ages 4-15 years) at Living Hope Orphanage School. Last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations, we had three candidates and they passed very well with excellent grades. At five years a child in kindergarten is able to communicate in fluently in English which is giving our school plus the teachers a recommendable credit within the community. “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” ― Malcolm X
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Our Com mu nity
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n our campaign to break the cycle of poverty, we have reached many
communities in Mityana with workshops, skills, and animal support poor household families. Last year we gave out 50 pigs, 50 goats, 100 chickens and ducks to widows and single mothers to start small scale animal farms, raise income out of it. Each animal and bird helps to keep a needy family from hunger, and meet basic human needs for the family. Meet Ivan
Join Our Circle
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ur work is made possible by the support and generosity of caring citizens around the globe. Here are the five ways you get involved in Changing Lives and Transforming Communities in Uganda and beyond. 1. Host Host Pastor Elijah for a speaking engagement or a fundraising dinner for Living Hope Uganda at your home, school, or church. We’ve Inspiring stories about the challenges Ugandan poor and orphaned children face in taking care of themselves. 2. Sponsor a Child Give a gift to sponsor a poor child to have education, food, clothes, and medical. Over 2.8 million orphans in Uganda have no place to call home, they leave on street, eat in garbage bins, crack drugs, and they are raped and sexually molested.They need a future which you a can give by sponsoring. 3. Donate Living Hope is a charitable organization operating in Uganda. All donations contribute to changing Lives and Transforming communities in Uganda and beyond. 4. Mission Trip Come and witness the great work God is doing in Uganda through your support. Make your summer vacation meaningful by coming to Uganda and see the situation by yourself, the poverty, how people survive on a dollar a day, and so forth. 5. Connect Volunteer, introduce us to potential corporate partners, friends, spread the word about us, like us on Facebook,
twitter, write about us, and more. Also come and be a volunteer at our Orphanage school as a teacher, games trainer, cook a special meal for the kids, share stories, or do causal work at the school property like painting.
Our Finances
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s we review our finances over the past year, we thank God for His provision, through you, for Living Hope Uganda needs, and we remain prayerfully dependent on Him for the year to come. We raise funds from donations, gifts, piggery, goats, brick-laying, and craft sales. Our total income is down 100% on last year’s level, which is chiefly because of lower donations received from some generous givers. There has not been many frequent communication because most of our equipment were stolen and other crashed, the director stopped his travels outside to mother a young church. In the past year, our Minisry has planted a church, purchased its land, and its raising a structure; conducted over 6 mega-soul win crusades in Buloba, Kibale, Nkungulutale, Budaka, and Entebbe where 400 people gave their lives to Jesus; we gave out piglets, goats, chicken, ducks to 100 families to break the cycle of poverty; raising a building foundation for Rescue Children’s Home at the orphanage school. All funds received in past year from Donations, gifts, and other incomes; this is how it was spent: 67.5% of the funds was allocated to Ministry programs/projects in Feeding, Medical, Poverty alleviation, Education, child care, scholastic, evangelism, skills empowerment and church planting. 24% of the funds was disbursed for General Administration of the Ministry as staff salaries, Allowances, transportation, telephone, stationery, utility bills and also Bank fees & charges.
8.5% -Funds was allocated into fundraisings as Postage, reports printing, flyers, and banners plus Airfare Tickets.
JANUARY 2015 – DECEMBER 2015 AUDITED FINANCIALS REVENUE Donations $38,668.14 Gifts-in-kind $2,431.41 Other Incomes* $4,383.30 Total Revenue $45,714.95 (*Incomes from crafts, goats, piggery sales, personal monies from our pockets and anonymous giving) EXPENDITURES Program-related expenditures $30,856.10 Fundraising $3,893.41 General & Administration $10,965.44 Total Expenditures $45,714.95
Our Appreciation Living Hope Uganda is deeply grateful to the donors, partners, volunteers, staff, individuals and organizations who support our work. We couldn’t do it without you. Key Sponsors First Reformed Church Redeemer Lutheran Church Midway United Methodist Church Bethel Baptist Church Individual Sponsors $1000 and up Greyn, Larry & Sharon Stapel, Nina Houston, Clive & Sherry $500 – $999 Kuichmichel, Brian & Maria Honchrein, Joe & Michelle Rauwerdich, Glen & Pamela Chung, Alice Kilcup, Eva Hand, Randel Stewart, Jason $200 - $499 Childs, Mary Bachrach, Carol Falk, Nichole Schetter, Terry & Jody Schroeder, Bill & Julie Arrietta, Tim & Jenny Gartman, Ryan $1 - $199 Vaness, Jay & Jill
Battson, E.A Jacobs, JMC Bryson, Cory & Pamela Vaness, Justin & Tracy Vaness, Jordan & Shannon Binta, Miya Wessel, Susan Reece, Lark Ballard, Patrick Jacobson, Alan & Sandra Roblee, Judith