Since 2008, Kingsway Christian High School has been providing secondary education in an evangelical Christian setting to orphans and vulnerable youth. Many are survivors of the war with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda. More history here.
After nearly two decades of ongoing war, the social, economic, religious, health and educational effects on communities are still greatly felt. Survivors were left with almost nothing. Children couldn’t attend school or church for many years. Kingsway educates and nurtures children of war survivors, and more recently, children born and raised by child-mothers raped during the wars.
“Unstoppable with Christ” is the school’s motto, reflecting an earnest faith and awe for Christ who has accomplished miracles in the lives of the students. Some have gone on to attend university and get good jobs, a fate impossible for impoverished youth otherwise.
Orphans and vulnerable youth from eight districts across Uganda have graduated from Kingsway and now are shining Christ’s light in their communities. Some are teachers, policemen or business owners. Others work for water mission ministries and the United Nations. They are nurturing families and rebuilding communities destroyed by the war.
Check out the video below for an introduction to Kingsway from the founder:
Kingsway News – January 2026
End of Year Report 2025
We thank the Lord so much for HIS goodness and for bringing us to the end of the third and final term of the 2025 school year. The Lord has watched over us, protected the students and staff at the school, healed those who were ill and provided all necessities, especially food for the students, and successfully enabled us to complete the term.
Blessed with Life
It has been a long year with a lot of activities and blessings from the Lord. We can never get over the water blessing. As the saying goes, ‘Water is Life,’ surely, we were blessed with life this year. The Genesis Water project that has supplied Kingsway with clean running water being the most outstanding project ever achieved after years of scarcity of water.
With grateful hearts we continue to thank Ken Watkins and the entire Genesis Waters organization. It was also a blessing for Ken to be present at the official opening of the water. We will forever be grateful to God and continue to be grateful to Genesis Waters. Please watch our video below:
We also had a School Thanksgiving celebration on the 9th of October. The entire school came together to thank the Lord for how far we have come as Kingsway community.
Awards were also given to the student leaders who have worked hand in hand with the administration of the school and teachers to help in the smooth running of the school activities.
This is David Kisaliita, who was the head-boy of the school. (Learn more about him and read his testimony here.) In this picture, David is receiving his Student leader’s Certificate. As head-boy, David organized the boys in all school activities involving boys. He worked with the teachers or even with administrators in some disciplinary cases involving boys.
This student is Margaret. She is the head girl, the female student leader. Here she is receiving her certificate of leadership.
As the female student leader, Margaret organized the girls in all school activities involving girls and sometimes she was involved in disciplinary issues when need be.
National Examinations
We are grateful to the Lord for a successful national examination season for the Senior 4 and Senior 6 candidate classes. For two months, each day we needed to travel to Kampala to pick up exams from the government and return the completed forms by the end of the day.
We faced a challenge with power fluctuations since the solar power at school does not support running of computers. This was a huge setback during the examination. Because of the power fluctuations, the school printer also ended up blowing. Hopefully next year, the Lord will provide finances for a generator and printer.
Our Need for Sewing Machines
The government of Uganda gives orders to schools about classes they should teach, and they have a new requirement. They now expect schools to offer practical classes so that students will gain hands-on skills.
To fulfill this requirement we would like to buy twenty manual (non-electric) sewing machines like the one here so that students can learn to sew. Each sewing station will cost $200, and we’ve purchased 2 so far. Would anyone like to help us with this goal? Learn more on Kingsway’s Wish List page.
Prayer Requests
On a sad note, one of our students, Timothy who is in Senior 4 class next year and Mr. Cherope the Math/Physics teacher both lost their fathers. We continue to pray that the Lord comforts them. Knowing that almost all our students lack a father, it breaks our hearts when we lose more fathers. As Kingsway family, we continue to lift each other in the hands of the Lord that God will watch and protect each family.
We also are praying for our student Vivian, who is very bright but nearly deaf, so she struggles to hear what is going on. It’s very hard to make friends and interact with teachers, which makes life difficult for her. (Read her testimony here.)
Looking forward to 2026
As we look forward to next year, we pray that the same God who has seen us through 2025 will be the same God to start 2026 with us. We are trusting the Lord for more tuition-paying students to join us. (We admit many applicants from destitute families, but few from families who can pay.) Every individual has been put to task of advertising the school so that our numbers can improve. We are also trusting God to provide more sewing machines for students as they begin with the hands-on skills projects next year.
Comfort, Ivan and Ayanna
To every one who has worked so hard to see to it that Kingsway runs smoothly this academic year, we want to say thank you. To everyone who has come through in one way or the other, we thank you.
A big thanks goes to those who support the ministry through finances and to those who stand in the gap for us in prayer.
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Letaa Ivan Bob
(Credit: Kari Tverberg for video editing)
Trinity Yikiisi
Here is Milly along with Trinity Yikiisi, who graduated from Kingsway in 2014.
Trinity’s father died when she was a baby and her mother had no money for school fees. Her education would have ended in the 7th grade but Milly sought her out and enrolled her at Kingsway, where she did very well.
When extended relatives heard how well Trinity did, they pulled together the money for her to attend university.
Trinity has since attended university and is looking for her first job.
Vivian Gift
I (Faith Letaaci) sat down with Vivian , who is a new student at Kingsway. She is in Senior Five and studies history, economics, geography, and entrepreneurship. Vivian’s favorite subject is history, in which she got an A. Vivian wants to become a journalist when she grows up.
I asked her how Kingsway is different from the schools she has been to before. “I have experienced something I have never experienced anywhere else. I love Kingsway because it allows you to express yourself.”
Vivian is a student with a disability. She is totally deaf in one ear and partially hears in the other ear. Despite this, she is a jolly and confident student. She is refreshingly full of life and optimistic. It was a delight to sit down and interview her. One of the most exciting things we talked about is the Christian life she has found at the school and the way she has been impacted by the Bible. Vivian is now born again and experiencing the joy that is found in Christ Jesus. Vivian says, “I did not know who God is, but Kingsway has taught me about God.”
Bullying is common in Ugandan schools, especially of students who have a disability. It’s wonderful to hear Vivian say that there is no bullying at Kingsway. The student body is so close-knit that it fosters fellowship among the students. This is the testimony of a truly Christian school.
At Kingsway, both girls and boys play sports. There is no sport for only girls or boys. Both equally play soccer, basketball, volleyball, and netball (a game like basketball). Vivian is happy that she was encouraged to take part in a sport just like any other student. Although she was initially hesitant to take part in sports, one of the teachers told her to look beyond any personal impairments or disability and try. Now it’s one of her highlights at school.
On a sad note, Vivian is an orphan who has no parents. She lives with her grandmother in the village. We are excited to be able to give Vivian an education which she would not have without the benefit of a Kingsway scholarship. This is a testament of our motto, “Unstoppable with Christ.” We are excited to be able to share in the things that God is doing in Vivian’s life and the two years of high school she has left.
Hillary Mukenyuhaki
Hillary joined Kingsway in March 2024, as a Senior 5 student. She had been living with her father because her mother went to work as a domestic worker in the Arab world and didn’t come back. Then Hillary’s father died, and she lost all chance of going to school. Some people who knew about Kingsway told her about our school. So, being a courageous and independent girl, Hillary came looking for Kingsway. Without knowing where our school was located, she took a bodaboda (motorcycle) ride and found us all by herself.
With such courage and determination, Hillary was given admission to Kingsway. She never complained or asked for anything, even when she had nothing. Hillary has worked very hard in academics and was active in games and sports.
Hillary’s Testimony
I have experienced life both good and bad in life. Of course life is not a bed of roses. I have loved my life in Kingsway. Kingsway had a great impact on my life. I enjoyed discussions with my teachers and my classmates, which have taught me so much.
At Kingsway English was compulsory, while in my former school it was individual decision whether or not to speak English. This totally challenged my life because I wasn’t used to speaking English only.
At Kingsway, we live our lives as a community, while I was used to living alone after the death of my father. We did all the school work and everything in groups. In Kingsway I learnt to work in groups, whereby we talk and share our experiences. I learned to dig and work in the garden. Now I can dig very well. We always worked together as family. For example, in groups we cleaned our dormitories, classrooms, restrooms and the biggest was cleaning our compound and the playgrounds. We really enjoyed working together.
Our teachers and our director, Madam Milly, taught us different ways of working to make money and how to survive in a difficult world. We learned that in every situation in life we must seek to do what is good. The roles which parents play in their children’s lives, our teachers have played in our lives by Kingsway because they teach you about every part of life.
What I enjoyed most at Kingsway was the times of games and sports, where we played football, netball and all the children’s games. We played among ourselves and with our teachers too. We even played with other schools and emerged winners.
I enjoyed sessions of prayers, praising God together and even learning how to share the message of the Gospel with my fellow students. I used to pray, but my prayer life died when my father died. On one Sunday in church, after praying for my father to get well, because he was sick, and my father died that Sunday night, it killed my prayer life. Because I was living with my father without my mother, my father was everything to me. But when I joined Kingsway I was taught that in everything situation in life, I should not forget God, and my spiritual life revived. I have been revived in my faith again.
Kingsway has changed my life and has created a memory in me which I will never forget in my life.
David Kisaliita
David Kisaliita is one of our most admired students, even though he is from a very poor family in one of the poorest communities in the Byikwe district, near the Nile river. He is born-again, having accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior at Kingsway.
David is a very brilliant student in academics. He is well-mannered, and has excellent student leadership skills. In 2025 David finished his Advanced level studies, majoring in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and ICT.
David’s Testimony
I was selected for admission at the beginning of 2021 and elected to be a student leader in March of 2021 until to the end of 2025.
I have no words to express my gratitude to have gotten the opportunity for admission at Kingsway, when many who tried were not taken in. To me and my fellow students, Kingsway has been a better place for life, where life-skills have been taught, spiritual nurture has been emphasized and an academic environment has been fostered for excellence.
I appreciate the director, Madam Milly, for sacrificing her all for us. She is a great lady who has done everything to prepare us for life through many activities and occasions. With her vision for young people who have no direction in life or hope for their future, she has become a beacon of hope to the students of Kingsway. She should be called a hero for what she has done in Kingsway to lift us up, children who had no future, but who now look ahead for advanced studies and better life.
Kingsway has prepared us by acquiring different skills in different occasions of life in Kingsway. We have been taught us to work with our hands to make this world a better place to live in, a nurture which has prepared us for life.
Kingsway nurtured us spiritually. Most of us became born-again in Kingsway. We were also nurtured to minister the Gospel to our fellow students and to the wider world. At Kingsway, students who came with bad characters were nurtured into people who could now fear God, and their behaviors changed. Such students were put under counseling and corrective activities until significant change was realized. This is something our parents could not even do to correct our wayward brothers. I salute Kingsway for this determination to change bad children into God-fearing children in order for them to have a future.
I appreciate all the administrators, Madam Comfort and our teachers who worked very hard to teach us and prepare us for the Uganda National Examinations (UNEB). The love and passion of our teachers to make us succeed is incomparable. Even during the UNEB this year, Madam Comfort’s tireless running of the exams, was reassuring. Me and my friends are forever grateful.
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We also had a School Thanksgiving celebration on the 9th of October. The entire school came together to thank the Lord for how far we have come as Kingsway community.
Awards were also given to the student leaders who have worked hand in hand with the administration of the school and teachers to help in the smooth running of the school activities.
I was selected for admission at the beginning of 2021 and elected to be a student leader in March of 2021 until to the end of 2025.