2024 is a Year of Answered Prayers
In February Kingsway began a brand new academic year. Because they are one of very few schools offering assistance to impoverished families after the pandemic shutdown closed so many schools, once again their offices were overrun by parents begging them to admit their children.
Last year they planned for 50 students and ended up with 63. This year they decided to increase their limit to 100. That meant that over break they were busy building desks, chairs and beds for the incoming students! They will likely have closer to 120 students total this year.
Please pray that the Lord will provide teachers, food and finances for all their needs.
Girls’ Dormitory – First Floor is DONE!!!
(For more on Kingsway’s great need for a girls dorm and long-time struggle in building one, see this page.)
We are happy to say that after over 10 years of waiting, the first floor of the girls dorm is done and the girls have been able to move in. It’s exciting to see how beautiful the dorm is turning out, with solar panels that allow for abundant electricity that is not prone to outages, like most is in Uganda.
The girls helped do the last cleaning and the boys helped move in bunk beds. See this post for more pictures. Then, there was great joy on moving day!
For more pictures of moving day festivities, see this post.
New Hope for Addressing our Water Needs
Kingsway has also had an ongoing struggle for water that became especially acute last year. Heavy rains collapsed the walls of Kingsway’s well so that it couldn’t be used. Without their own water source, every day the entire student body would walk 2 km each way to fill jerry cans from a source across town. What a lot of time to spend to just meet a basic need!
As this year begins we have new hope because our director Milly has met Ken and Shelly Watkins, the directors of Genesis Waters, a ministry in Grand Rapids, Michigan that does water projects in Africa to serve Christian outreach. Ken will be visiting Kingsway in April to assess our needs and start planning for how they can help our school. They may dig a deeper well and/or construct a rain catchment system that can collect and purify the abundant rain in our area. Praise the LORD!!
Our Concern: Applicants Turned Away
Your ongoing monthly support allows Kingsway to transform many more lives. The school has a long list of needy applicants who they are unable to enroll. These children may lose their only opportunity to get an education.
A year ago we asked folks to sponsor students, but Milly did not bother to wait for the money to arrive. She just accepted needy children anyhow and stepped out in faith.
If you’ve ever wished you could directly help the poorest in Africa, you’ve come to the right place.
Check out Kingsway’s Wish List