A bright future

This week we had a one day conference for the children and their parents, along with the widows, of the Trust Project (the Australia HOPE International sponsorship program here in Mbarara). Things around here are gearing up for all the kids to go back to school, so before all the craziness starts it seemed like a good time to gather everyone together.

During the day there was leadership training, motivation and encouragement in the area of personal responsibility, parenting advice and a separate question time for the young people involved.

It was such a blessing to see all these that are being helped, gathered together spending time thanking God for the past year and looking forward to their future.

 

Only phone photos but these are the children and parents gathered for the conference

We at HOPE also look forward to the future and all that will continue to be done through the many faithful partners we have here in Uganda and DR Congo. We thank God for the faithful support from so many in Australia and for our future vision and direction.

For me it continues to be such a blessing to be involved with HOPE and to see all that it is doing here. To have the opportunity to be a bearer of and a witness to the hope that we have in Jesus. And for this time, call this beautiful place home and these beautiful people my friends and family.

Over the last months I have been advocating for and helping a young man who was in a car accident last April and who, on leaving hospital had nowhere to live and so started living at the church. He has no immediate family and his extended family have all but abandoned him. Next Monday he will go for surgery for his lower leg to be amputated and in the next months as he is recovering will be fitted for a prosthetic and for the first time in almost a year will be on the way to walking without crutches. In his lengthy incapacitation, Bright had started to lose hope for his future. A young man of twenty who had started to make his way in the world but came up against a major brick wall. But thankfully, although scared about the idea of losing his leg, Bright is now excited to get on with his life and to start to take on the world again.

My friend Bright and his beautiful smile

Please pray for Bright as he faces surgery, recovery and rehabilitation. Also that he would find something that he is able to do to earn money once he is well.

Praying for many blessings for you all in 2013

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