Compelling Love

Forward by David Krause, March 7, 2025

It has been my privilege to help support the excellent ministry of Pastor Henry Lubega over the past seven years. At my request, he has provided the following updated report on the origins and aspirations of the ministry. I would also like to add a few biographical details.

Henry was born on November 28, 1992 to Lubega Robert Saka and Nakintu Edith Nabutono in the Mityana district of Uganda where he grew up. He was the third of six children. His father was a carpenter, and his mother was a teacher. He was about seven years old when his father died, and about ten years old when his mother died. He went to live with his grandmother, Nabagala Ruth, who did farming for a living.  She was eventually able to provide funds for him to finish school, and he went on to  graduate from Makerere University Kampala on February 24. 2017, with a bachelor’s degree of arts in ethics and human rights. Earlier, in 2016, he was ordained as a Pastor at Miracles center Cathedral at Rubaga by Pastor Robert Kayanja.

I count it a great honor and privilege to support this very fine ministry. We are prayerfully hoping that others will commit to donating regularly, providing vital support for the continuance and blossoming of this ministry into all that God intends.

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Report by Pastor Henry Lubega

Reaching a Hand Children’s Ministry and Orphanage

Kikumbi Village
Mityana , Uganda
March 6, 2025

 Am delighted to write to you about our Orphanage . 

 The organization was established in 2012 and registered officially in 2014, with the love to reach out to needy children in our local communities. These children include the orphans, children infected with HIV/AIDS, children with disabilities, the less advantaged and children abandoned by their parents.

We help them in terms of education, health, shelter, spiritual growth and providing basic needs .

The ministry started with seven children in 2012, suffering from different backgrounds, the ministry now has over 126 children  at our home ministry and others are cared after for, from their respective homes. 

This is not our intention and we would love to have all the children and of course we would love to help very many children but we are limited with finances and facilitation. We have a small place that cannot accommodate the number of children we would want to support. However we are praying hard, because we have embarked on the agenda to expand the ministry and buy land so that we can help as many children as we can, with the grace of God.

 This work am doing is a calling from God. I suffered from my childhood, my father died in 1999 and my mother died in 2002. I grew by the mercy of the Lord, so I know what it means to lack, to starve and all suffering. I have lived to see my age mates go to school and am home because no one could pay school fees for me, I have watched children from well off families eat, and wait for them to get satisfied and eat from their leftovers. I have watched poor children die of treatable disease because they and their parents couldn’t pay medical bills. I have seen extreme poverty in families. I have witnessed pain and I know what it means for a child to smile. 

 OUR PROGRAM 

1. We want to build a bigger home for the children. This will give us enough space to keep the children and help them. We have got so many children but we end up not admitting them due to a small space that we are renting. We believe that when we get our land, we can use it to grow enough food, build structures like dormitories for the children, a church such that the we pray from the ministry and also to save the children from walking a long distance going to church. We can also have farming projects that can help provide regular income like poultry farm and a pig farm. 

2. We need a water tank to help us collect rain water that can be used during the dry seasons. Apparently we have national water that we pay monthly but it’s not reliable as it’s on and off. During the dry seasons like the one we are experiencing now, it spends more than two days when it’s off. Children end up walking very long distances to fetch water. A water tank would be of very great help for reserving water to take us through the dry season. 

3. The orphanage needs to buy some land to help us put up something that can help to support our livelihood. So many projects including piggery, poultry farming, goat keeping and crop growing. These would help the ministry get some income. The orphanage depends on gifts and donations from supporters and well-wishers and this is so unreliable some times. Donations alone can’t be a source of livelihood to the ministry and as a result they only help for survival but don’t meant the required standards of basic needs and survival. 

 We pray to the almighty God to bless us with the funds we need to establish our projects and to make sure that we satisfy the young children and also the community. It’s against that background that we appeal to everyone, organizations, individuals, churches to help us in any ways possible for the work we do to help the children and also build change and the well being of so many people in our communities. May the Lord bless you all!

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