Uganda

“It was hard to imagine the actual impact my sponsorship for Ritah would have, but after meeting her and visiting her village, there’s no way I’d consider not sponsoring a child. It’s amazing how a little goes a long way." - Miles Melbert

Why Uganda? This global Pioneer Place of Engagement offers The Heights family the chance to engage with IMB-appointed missionaries to Uganda and Heights members, Eric and Krisann Pease, plus World Vision International to commit to long-term transformation of an entire village in Uganda. Such transformation will include facilitating clean water, healthcare emphasizing needs around HIV/AIDS, sourcing food, proper Ugandan education, economic development, and ultimately transformation in the spiritual eternity of these Ugandan people.

What are the objectives?

  • To build trust within specific Ugandan communities.
  • Bring community leaders together to plan for the future.
  • Provide clean water which can cut child death rates in half.
  • Provide and teach proper health and hygiene. When health and hygiene resources are added to clean water interventions, a community is able to reduce its child deaths by another 50%.
  • Secure regular and sustainable sources of food.
  • Provide an opportunity so that every child in specific Ugandan communities can receive an education.
  • Provide initiatives for economic development.
  • Unify the Church and spiritual leaders.

What is the strategy?

  1. Partner with World Vision. World Vision has provided hope and assistance to approximately 100 million people in nearly 100 countries. For more than 50 years they have joined with local people to find lasting ways to improve the lives of impoverished children and their families.
  2. Work with a specific adopted community and World Vision Staff to come up with a comprehensive priority plan for community transformation.
  3. Child Sponsorship: Provide an opportunity for Height’s people to sponsor ($35.00 per month) a child in a specific adopted community. This allows relationships to be built and ensures the well being of that child.
  4. Congregational Trip: This trip is designed to build relationships and provide an opportunity to meet your sponsored child in the specific adopted community.
  5. Have consistent contact with the World Vision staff that live in our specific adopted community as we work toward the above objectives.

Occupations, skills projected for this Place of Engagement: Relationship builders, persons who have sponsored children in our village of Kyalulangira, painters, plumbers, carpenters, roofers, teachers, educational administrators, children’s workers, life skills trainers, social workers, community planners, persons with compassion, good organizers.