Fascinated by Knitting Machines
During August, Kingsway received a gift of five knitting machines so that they can begin a program in machine knitting. This will expand their program in sewing/ tailoring, which also began this year. Hand knitting is slow, but knitting machines can produce professional results in a fraction of the time, and they don’t require electricity either!
The team with these machines has arrived at Kingsway and five machines have been set up. The students (both boys and girls) find them fascinating and don’t want to leave when class is over. The whole school (including staff) took lessons together.
These machines are expensive to buy new, but friends of Kingsway in the US donated several used ones to the school. It is exciting to think that Kingsway will have an innovative program that gives students an unusual opportunity to learn useful skills that they can use for income generation.
Here are the students showing how they use the machines.
And here are the fruits of their labor!
For more pictures and details about the program see this blog.
Experiencing a Drought Right Now
A drought has been going on in Uganda since April. Most rural Ugandans are subsistence farmers who live off the produce of their own gardens. That means that a drought quickly turns into famine. Food prices also go up so that even those with jobs struggle to feed themselves.
Kingsway grows a large garden to defray their food costs for feeding a hundred students plus faculty, so they are affected too. We asked Milly about how it was going for them. On July 27, she wrote:
We have a very severe drought this year! Even at Kingsway, there has been no rain since May up to now!
But praise the Lord for Genesis Waters! (who installed a deep well last year.) We have been watering our vegetables! Our kale and carrots did well. We are now serving them as our only vegetables. The carrots are getting done in two weeks. The kale will take us for some time. But for our cabbage garden and eggplants, they never responded well to the watering. They are just miserably poor! We will get nothing from them!
In the north the drought has been very, very severe. You cannot see any green grass anywhere. The crops which were planted early in the year just dried up completely! Many small streams from which people fetch water dried out. The boreholes are dry, they don’t pump out water. Older people and malnourished children are dying including livestock! The drought has been very severe!
Due to the long drought, food prices are really extremely high. For example, the maize (posho) we used to buy a 50 kilogram bag at shs 75,000/-; ($19.89) we now buy at shs 130,000/- ($34.38)! This is very costly for us because we serve posho every night for supper.
Nevertheless, we are have had a few days of rain recently and we are hopeful that plentiful rains will come soon.
Vivian Receives Hearing Aids
You may remember Vivian’s testimony from a few months ago. She began attending Kingsway last year, and she only has one year left in high school. She is nearly deaf, but she is very bright and gets top scores in her classes. But making friends and communicating with teachers is a real struggle for her.
Vivian’s disability began after she came down with severe malaria, which was treated with quinine. The quinine caused her to lose her hearing in one ear entirely, and partially in the other. Her father also died, so her family had no money to pay for treatment of her hearing loss.
At the end of last year, we shared her story and asked folks to pray for her. One of Kingsway’s supporters asked if she could help Vivian get hearing aids. The staff arranged for her to see an audiologist who said that hearing aids should fully correct her hearing in one ear and help some with the other.
She has now been fitted for hearing aids and is doing much better. Her teachers report: “Vivian is doing very well. The hearing aid has done wonders. We are all excited and relieved that she can now listen clearly. In the first week the aid was given, she complained that it was too loud so we had to take her back to the hospital so that they could adjust the aid and now it’s perfect.”
Prayer Requests
Milly shared news that several students and a faculty person have accepted Christ and asked to be baptized! Please pray for them. More details in this blog.
Please pray for Milly’s son Hope, who had a severe fall in their home late one evening a few months ago and fractured several bones in his face. Everyone was terribly concerned when he was found unconscious in a puddle of blood, and they are praying for his full physical and mental healing. Hope is a physician, but he decided to resign from his position at the hospital. Competition is high for jobs in medicine, so it will be challenging to find his next position. Please pray for his healing and the Lord’s next calling on his life.
Please pray for their student Kilama Deugracious, who has a painful lump on his chest and enlarged lymph nodes too. They are taking him for scans to learn more and test for cancer.
Please pray for Milly’s mother, who is in her mid 80’s and is about 9 hours away, in the rural north where Milly’s extended family lives. She was hospitalized for a stroke for quite a while but now has been released to be home with family.
Please pray for the writing that Milly and Lois Tverberg are doing together on their upcoming book. (More details at this link)
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(Note: updated Aug 2026)
