Africa Outreach News!

I am excited to share more about our outreach to Africa this May!   Our team from YWAM will be joining two other teams from New Zealand to partner with Tent Peg Missions on a five week outreach to Uganda and South Sudan, leaving on the 19^th of May. 

These are a few of the ministries we will partner with Tent Peg Missions to serve in Uganda and The Republic of South Sudan....

House of Aroha - Uganda

     

House of Aroha is a family home for 23 children located in Jinja.  Honor, relationships, healing, family  and faith are the foundation the home is built on.  Children know who they are, released into their destiny and contribute to something bigger than themselves.   Children live in a family environment with mother and father at the House of Aroha and are cared for as a child of God and a valuable and contributing member of the household.   Each child has a mentor as part of the Step Up program and is on a journey of developing their strengths and character and finding their place of contribution in their community.

Footsteps- Northern Uganda    

Footsteps is a project working with those who have experienced trauma in Northern Uganda as a result of the LRA. We want to see people set free and restored in relationship with God and others and families and communities growing and seeing God's goodness.   Individual mentoring and breakthrough prayer with formerly abducted child soldiers and family members affected by the LRA is facilitated by staff members.  As relationships and trust is built and Jesus is invited into areas of each ones lives to bring healing and freedom, we see people released into God's good future for them and the communities transformed.

Mulungi church in Namulesa                 

                  

 Outreach in Adwari

 

Juba HOPE Center - South Sudan

Here girls still living on the streets come and receive three hot meals a day, learn to make bread, wash their clothes, bathe, study, are enrolled in local schools and are blossoming.   Many have transitioned from there to our Yei Children’s Village and are now thriving in our Yei family.

http://irisminsudan.org/


At the beginning of our outreach, we will Travel to The Republic of South Sudan for six days to work with the Juba Hope Center.
While in Uganda our team will focus on working with the children at the House of Aroha in Jinja and St. Paul's School in Namulesa.  We will also spend a several days working with the Footsteps project in Adwari and hosting a Family Conference at Victory Outreach Church, and visit the Mulungi Church in Namulesa.


The Lord has given me a heart for Africa and the orphaned children there, and I am thrilled for this opportunity to go and serve! 

I would greatly appreciate your prayers as I prepare to go, and while in Africa for safety, health, protection, and strength to do the work the Lord has for me there.  


The cost of this mission trip is approximately $4500.  If anyone would like to partner with me and help send me through a gift of financial support, please mail your donations by April 15th to:


YWAM Tyler Accounting Dept.  P.O. 3000  Garden Valley, TX 75771-3000

Please make checks payable to YWAM (with separate note: for Cindy Gross) A tax-deductible receipt will be mailed to you.

Thank you for your prayers and support as I follow the Lord’s call on my life to serve in missions and take His love to the nations!

Blessings,
Cindy