Today I want to share some of the good news of what happened this year. In 2011, 150,000 pounds of food and 400 gallons of cooking oil have been distributed in the slums of Uganda. Read that again. One hundred Fifty THOUSAND pounds of food! Four HUNDRED gallons of cooking oil! Amazing! How many people have been blessed through this? Over 1200 people monthly! I want to thank you for your gifts that provided for this ministry.
Here is an email from Douglas that gives the story of Angelina and her family who are currently in the program. She is just one person. Her family is just one family that has been touched. Their story can be amplified a 1,000 times.
Here is another whose life that has been changed by Manna here in Angola. She is a lady called Angelina Kayoko. She is a 67 year old Kenyan married to a Congolese man and they are resident in this slum in Kampala called Angola. Thats where Manna met them and changed their lives holistically!
Two weeks ago during a follow up visit with her, she and her husband prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savoir. She and her husband did not speak well Lugandan. She speaks Swahili but she did understand enough to hear the Gospel.
They came to Kampala to find her husband’s brother, only to find themselves renting a room in Angola slum and they have been here 18 years now. They have done all kinds of odd jobs for living even looking after pigs for a living. At one time they even owned 3 adult pigs, which unfortunately they had to sell off to pay hospital bills for her husband when he developed a heart problem. And thats when Manna found them. They had nothing! Angelina’s husband was on dying stage and she had nothing! The piggery project they had was gone! But when Manna came in, they did not only get back their piggery project, they found Jesus as Lord and Savior! Angelina’s husband is alive! Though he is still on treatment. But now saved!! Born again!! Wow!
Angelina has been able to save money during the food distribution period. Enough to buy 3 piglets. Two of the piglets are 3 months old and the other is 4 months old.
I asked her what she would say to the people who contributed toward Manna and this is what told me,
“Even when you are there and I am here, I thank you! I appreciate all you have given me and my husband! Did you know that bean soup was what the doctors working on my husband recommended as his most important diet! And that’s exactly what you came with!! Thats why I am so very eager to see your faces so that I may say these words to you all face to face. Thank you very much! I am what I am today because of what you gave! My husband is alive because of you all! We are now saved because you gave! We got back our piggery project because of you! I am now smiling because of you!!
Please do continue to pray for us. My husband’s medicine for a single dose costs 7,000 shillings for every two weeks. We hope to handle this with the piggery project we have now. Pray for it! We are also praying for God to continue to bless you all! May God bless you all!”
I want to thank every one who makes Manna happen!! Lives are being changed and God is being Glorified!! Jesus’s name is being lifted high!!Doug
I cannot overstate the importance of this food to the people who receive it in the slums. Words fail me. You just need to come to Kampala and meet the people who receive it to see for yourself the difference it makes to people!
