November 2020
Christmas in Kamonkoli
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Theresa

I am always amazed at the number of people who show up when it is time to give food to the community! There are so many who seem to be suffering this year with a lack of food. The month of November began with over 400 showing up at the office asking for food. We explained that we had not prepared the food baskets as yet for the month. Two days later, another large group showed up asking for food and again we had to turn them away. Three days later we had the baskets ready and over 700 people showed up. Yet we only have food for 450 families. This is always a dilemma. Though so many have been very generous to help with the extra feeding needed this year, there are always more mouths to feed. We have been happy to make such a difference for our sponsored children and their parents and guardians as well as the community. Thank you to all who have made this possible. 

I ask you to pray for the people, that God will provide for their need to buy food and make their gardens blessed. Jesus had compassion, as do all of us here with Hines Ugandan Ministries, on the people and their hunger. It is not only the COVID-19 affecting the people, but the weather has not been the usual weather. We went through three years of almost no rain and dry weather. This year it has been raining throughout to where the crops were destroyed by too much rain. We ask for your prayers and your support as we continue to work to supplement these needs in our community. We do not desire to take away from them growing their own food too, but simply trying to help them in this time of trouble. 

This is the time of year we begin to think about the children for Christmas. Every Christmas we have been able to buy a new outfit for the sponsored children, we include in this gift new underwear, lotion, deodorant for the youth, bathing soap and washing soap, salt, sugar, corn flour, rice, tea leaves, beans and beef as well as a small toy for every child sponsored. We buy all of this for a child for $35 a child or youth. We are asking you to remember them as you think of Christmas this year. Please help just one child to have clothing and food at Christmas. I have posted a few pictures of children and youth wearing their new outfits from last Christmas! HUM Christmas
School has resumed in Uganda for the candidate classes. These are the last year of each level in Uganda. This includes primary 7 as well as the 4th year of ordinary level high school and 6th year of high school for those who go on to the advanced levels. All of these levels take a very challenging test with the Uganda National Education Board and their results determines their futures in what they are allowed to do for higher educational and employment. I ask you to pray for our students that they will do well. It will be hard since they have lost so much time in the school due to the COVID-19. The finalists in universities and vocational training institutes are also back in school and hoping to finish by February. They also need your prayers. It has been a year that has really interrupted the whole world. 

As you pray for the students in the schools, I request that you also pray for our elections in Uganda. I know that America is going through that now (as I voted absentee). President Museveni has been the President of Uganda since 1986. He is running again. Pray for peaceful elections and for the welfare of the country. 

We pray for our Savior’s many blessings for you as you celebrate His birth this Christmas.
Katherine
Making Christmas Special
Thank you to all who have already sent $35 for Christmas for your sponsored child or for those who’s sponsors are unable to give more. We also try to offer the food, clothing and small toy to kids on the wait list. Though it is too late to send us cards to forward to the field, you can go to “Contact” on our website to write your child a letter that we’ll put with their gift. You can send gifts to the field address, but please never send money or anything expensive that could get stolen along the way. 
Our Needs for the New Year
We are so grateful to all of you who have been so generous during the challenges that this year has brought, helping us with Katherine’s broken wrist, emergency food baskets for sponsored and community families, funding for our clinic’s mercy fund, medical help for our sweet Oliver, and most recently, building a new modest home for a family who’s mud hut had caved in in the rain. You are awesome and a true blessing, even while you are all dealing with the craziness of the pandemic in your own lives.
 
We humbly ask that you remember us in your year end giving. Ministry funds are always needed, but here are a few more things we are seeking support for if you prefer to give toward something specific.
*       Continued need for food baskets
*       Clinic Operations $1,200
*       7 classroom improvements of windows, floors & paint $3,000 ea.
*       Additional fencing & land improvements $10,000
*       Children’s home for up to 22 kids $110,000
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303-847-9522
P.O. Box 620727, Littleton, CO 80162
P.O. Box 1402, Mbale, Uganda, East Africa