The Joac outreaches to the street kids many gave there life to Christ

patrich, Davin, Conrad, Emmy, Ruth, Moreen,

 He whom the Son sets free is free indeed

 They share there stories of Gods faithfulness.

Greetings from Joy of a Child Ministry

So many stories, so many accomplishments!  God is good!  I have to first start with this verse, because this verse can sum up everything that is accomplished in this ministry!..........

Ephesians 3:14-21
 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

We are glad to report that our children came to the closure of their first term. We thank God for the good improvement in their performance - which is a result of good discipline noticed in them

.

 God truly does more than we can ever think or ask in this ministry over and over again!   David & Esther discovered and experienced God's incredible work in the life’s of the children they work with on a daily basic!  Girls in sexual slavery  are being reached and cared for, children are being educated, the gospel is being taught.  Love surrounds and abounds at Enju yamatsiko JOAC Uganda!

Thank you again for sponsoring an orphaned child in Uganda through Joy of a child Ministries!  I hope you have taken the opportunity to visit the website and read our blog  to see,

updates.  Your gifts are doing so far to meet the needs of so many children!  And your prayers and love are reaching deep into their hearts!  Ruth, one of the girls in our program shares her gratitude to her sponsor.....

"I am Ruth  I want to thank you so much Aunt Jenifer Kost   for the love gifts towards my school fees and many prayers and the real concern you have for me.  I am so grateful and blessed to be part of this wonderful family.  Please know that I have been enjoying all your blessings here! And have come to the end of my term with very good results I came in second division, Thank you so much for continuing to keep me in your thoughts, and prayers."  

Ruth Tusime

With lots of love to you all

Our friends David & Esther

Life time treat for the JOAC kids

Joseph has been a volunteer with us at Joy of a Child Uganda for the last 10 months. He has been working with us in the communication department. We have benefitted so much from his heart for the kids and serving. He has over the time bonded with the kids. However, Joseph will be leaving us in about two weeks` time. He is going to Australia to do a school of worship with Youth with a Mission in Perth.  We are already missing him so much!

The Uganda board has suggested that the kids and the staff at JOAC see Joseph off at Entebbe Airport on 27^th March. This will not only be a life time experience and treat for the JOAC kids, but it will also be an opportunity for them to have a study trip, where they will visit the Entebbe zoo (they have never been to the zoo and seen the animals they study about before). They will also go to Jinja to visit the source of River Nile, Bujagali falls, Mabira forest and visit the Owen falls dam. All these places they study about in school but have never been there before. Most of them have never gone beyond Mbarara. The trip we believe will widen their scope of exposure. Imagine the kids getting to know their country beyond their the community they have inhabited for years, knowing their capital city, Kampala they have only heard of from the media, visiting the Airport and places they have only read about and dreamed of. The JOAC Uganda has already contributed 150,000UGshs (62.5$$) towards this cause. We call upon you our dear friends, both within Uganda and those abroad to take part in our cause in order to give a life time treat to our kids. We humbly ask twenty five of you to grab this opportunity and be a blessing to the kids through making a contribution of 20$$ each towards this cause please. The kids will leave JOAC on 25^th, have their trips on 26^th and 27^th before Joseph`s flight.

Please note that, this comes at a time where we as a ministry have been going through a lot of struggles that God is seeing us through, this will be a refreshing moment for the staff and the kids.

Below is an estimated budget for the trip:

ITEM	AMOUNT (Shs)
Car hire and fuel	400,000
Driver`s fee	150,000
Study trips/visits	210,000
Meals	340,000
Accommodation	200,000
TOTAL	1,300,000 (500US$$)

God bless you!

David and Esther Kamanzi

VALENTINES DAY AT JOY OF A CHILD UGANDA

Tomorrow the world is celebrating love and sacrifice. People around the globe are preparing to show their loved ones love in numerous ways.

At Joy of a child we wish to celebrate this day in a very special way. We want to offer love and sacrifice to our kids. We at the ground will be here with the kids showing them the love of Christ and spending quality time with them. We want to extend this opportunity of showing love to even you who are very far from JOAC Uganda. We believe that you can show love to our kids through donating some gifts to them. They will be so happy to know that they are thought about and loved by the people near and afar. You can donate a gift that you wish.

You can also make a gift towards our pressing needs as specified below:

HOUSE RENT:

Thank you all who have been praying and contributing towards our house rent. As mentioned in our previous communication, our house rent has been increased to 3,131$$ from 2087$$ As was the case last year. We are so happy that God has provided a great deal of the rent with only a balance of 345$$.

KIDS RENT AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES:

Also in our previous communication we mentioned the need of school fees and school supplies for our kids given the beginning of their academic year a few weeks back. Most of the kids have not yet had their school dues cleared. Please pray and contribute towards their school. All of them have dreams that they wish to realize, please sacrifice and show the love towards realizing their dreams. Below we bring to you each of the kids and their dreams:

Keith

 Keith is in Primary four at St Lawrence Primary School. He is very humorous and a good dancer. His dream is to one day become a pilot.

Davin

                                                                                                                                                                Davin is in Primary Five at St Agnes Primary School. He is a gifted dancer and worshipper. His dream is to one day become a lawyer.

Patrick

Patrick is in Primary Seven at St Lawrence Primary School. He is a gifted footballer, dancer and worshiper. He has a dream of one day being the president of Uganda.

Conrad

Conrad is in Primary Seven at St Aloysius Primary School. He is a gifted footballer, artist, and dancer. He dreams of one day becoming a teacher.

Joshua

Joshua is in Primary three at St Agnes Primary School. He is a talented footballer. He also loves connecting cables to make simple lights. His dream is to become an Engineer.

Joseph

Joseph is in Primary three at St Agnes Primary School. He is very energetic and enthusiastic. He loves playing and watching football. His dream is to become a Lawyer.

Emmy

Emmy is in Primary Six at St Lawrence Primary School. He is a talented dancer and footballer. His dream is to become a Doctor.

Arafat

Arafat is in Top Class at St Agnes Primary School. He loves playing football and climbing trees. His dream is to become a Policeman who will arrest criminals and restore law and order in the country.

Shiba

Shiba is in her last year of tertiary education, doing tailoring at St Francis Institute. She is mother to Kamari. Her dream is to become a successful tailor who will be able to generate an income to take care of her son and sickly mother.

Moleen

Moleen dropped out of school because of lack of funds. She is very hard working and loves smiling. Her dream is to go back to school and become a teacher.

Ruth

Ruth is in Primary Six at St Aloysius Primary School. She loves doing house chores, watching movies, and reading. Her dream is to one day become a teacher.

Shivan

Shivan is in Primary two at St Agnes Primary School. She loves carrying babies and playing with them. Her dream is to one day become a Doctor.

Kakuru

Kakuru has a quiet spirit. She dropped out of school because of lack of funds. She is very hard working and helps out at the JOAC home with cooking and doing other house chores. She also loves being around kids. Her dream is to one day go to tertiary and become a hair dresser.

Afusa

Afusa is in Top Class at St Agnes Primary School. She is very jolly and loves carrying babies. He passion is to become a loving mother and a teacher.

Dear friends of Joy of a child,

Hope this finds you all well. We are glad to report that our kids at St Agnes School have now made two weeks at school in their first term. The other kids at St Lawrence and St Aloysius Schools have made one week in School. We are so much thankful for the prayer and support you have given towards their education and the Joy of a Child ministry as a whole. We are in particular thankful to the Elgin Church, Illinois that has faithfully stood with us in ministry for the past two years. Special thanks go to Pastor Adam, Matt, Jen, and Daniela that have come to Uganda and witnessed the work on the ground at JOAC.

Our journey in ministry as JOAC is steady, exciting, but also very challenging. We are so excited to see our kids grow physically and spiritually, adopting goals for their lives and now pursuing them through hard work with their education. Our role has always been to guide them and provide the physical, emotional, social and spiritual support that they need to achieve their dreams and overcome the challenges that come with becoming who they want to be and what God wants them to be.

This time of the year is one of the most challenging to us at JOAC. Our kids have begun their first term of school this year on credit, without paying their school fees or school supplies. It was so hard to let them in. It involved so much bargaining with the school administrators. We thank God that the kids were given a grace period to have their fees and supplies cleared. In 10 days, the schools need the kids to have their school dues cleared. The schools are tightening their grip mostly because of the high inflation in Uganda which has seen prices of most utilities go high; hence running the schools needs money urgently.

Our kids are growing physically. The school uniforms and shoes we bought them two years ago no longer fit them. They are too small for their bodies now. As a result, their schools have complained about this and need them to acquire new uniforms. Recently, Patrick and Davin were sent home because of small unfitting uniforms. The kids need new uniforms.

Shiba our oldest beneficiary, now in tertiary doing a course in tailoring will be starting her second year and last year of school this term. Being in her last year means a little rise in school fees and school supplies, and also a need for more hard work. Please pray that God will provide for her and see her through all the challenges that she is facing with her family and education.

Keith is our kid who was involved in an accident on Christmas day. He is using crutches to move, but his situation is improving. He is already back to school, very positive about school and enthusiastic to start the new term. However, he is finding it challenging to walk to school.  He is missing the times he used to run so fast to school and back for lunch. He now can’t have lunch because he cannot beat the lunch break to run home for lunch and back to school for classes. He urgently needs to pay to always have his lunch from school.

Please pray with us as we are now financially finding it hard to run the ministry.  Our monthly budget to run the home has always been 1.200 US dollars but what we have at hand is almost half of that amount.

Our rent has also gone far higher than what we have previously been paying per year. We now have to pay 3.131 dollars from about 2.087 dollars. We currently have 725 dollars for rent.

As you pray, please remember JOAC. And we invite you to make some contributions towards our budget if you feel guided by God to do so.

Please send your contributions/donations/gifts by following this link: https://joyofachild.webconnex.com/donate

Blessings to you all as we partner in ministry!

 

David and Esther Kamanzi

Dear friends of Joy of a child,

Hope this finds you all well. We are glad to report that our kids at St Agnes School have now made two weeks at school in their first term. The other kids at St Lawrence and St Aloysius Schools have made one week in School. We are so much thankful for the prayer and support you have given towards their education and the Joy of a Child ministry as a whole. We are in particular thankful to the Elgin Church, Illinois that has faithfully stood with us in ministry for the past two years. Special thanks go to Pastor Adam, Matt, Jen, and Daniela that have come to Uganda and witnessed the work on the ground at JOAC.

Our journey in ministry as JOAC is steady, exciting, but also very challenging. We are so excited to see our kids grow physically and spiritually, adopting goals for their lives and now pursuing them through hard work with their education. Our role has always been to guide them and provide the physical, emotional, social and spiritual support that they need to achieve their dreams and overcome the challenges that come with becoming who they want to be and what God wants them to be.

This time of the year is one of the most challenging to us at JOAC. Our kids have begun their first term of school this year on credit, without paying their school fees or school supplies. It was so hard to let them in. It involved so much bargaining with the school administrators. We thank God that the kids were given a grace period to have their fees and supplies cleared. In 10 days, the schools need the kids to have their school dues cleared. The schools are tightening their grip mostly because of the high inflation in Uganda which has seen prices of most utilities go high; hence running the schools needs money urgently.

Our kids are growing physically. The school uniforms and shoes we bought them two years ago no longer fit them. They are too small for their bodies now. As a result, their schools have complained about this and need them to acquire new uniforms. Recently, Patrick and Davin were sent home because of small unfitting uniforms. The kids need new uniforms.

Shiba our oldest beneficiary, now in tertiary doing a course in tailoring will be starting her second year and last year of school this term. Being in her last year means a little rise in school fees and school supplies, and also a need for more hard work. Please pray that God will provide for her and see her through all the challenges that she is facing with her family and education.

Keith is our kid who was involved in an accident on Christmas day. He is using crutches to move, but his situation is improving. He is already back to school, very positive about school and enthusiastic to start the new term. However, he is finding it challenging to walk to school.  He is missing the times he used to run so fast to school and back for lunch. He now can’t have lunch because he cannot beat the lunch break to run home for lunch and back to school for classes. He urgently needs to pay to always have his lunch from school.

Please pray with us as we are now financially finding it hard to run the ministry.  Our monthly budget to run the home has always been 1.200 US dollars but what we have at hand is almost half of that amount.

Our rent has also gone far higher than what we have previously been paying per year. We now have to pay 3.131 dollars from about 2.087 dollars. We currently have 725 dollars for rent.

As you pray, please remember JOAC. And we invite you to make some contributions towards our budget if you feel guided by God to do so.

Please send your contributions/donations/gifts by following this link: https://joyofachild.webconnex.com/donate

Blessings to you all as we partner in ministry!

David and Esther Kamanzi