God's House is Full!

This is God's house.  Not Helping Hands.  Not Village of Eden.  It is God's house.

God's House is full at the Village of Eden every day! 

(But there is always room for more)

We use the VOE church facilities 7 days a week.  Monday through Friday, every single room is being used.

The Sunday School rooms double as offices and classrooms.

Today, some of our Social workers were handing out uniforms to our Village of Eden Primary school students.  Through our sponsorship program, they receive school fees, a uniform, shoes and lunch each day.

It can be a bit difficult matching up the student to the uniform the tailor made for him or her!  This year we used some new tailors for the VOE school.  They didn't know to put names in the uniforms.  (oh no!)

The Upper Primary classes -3rd to 7th grade - also use the Sunday School rooms - which serve as classrooms during the week.

These children are very fortunate to have a classroom with walls, a roof and desks.   Many schools in Uganda struggle with these basics.

Our children also receive books to use for classes, individual instruction and high quality teaching.  We also take every opportunity to share the Gospel.  We have had many students receive Christ through our school.

 Heather is doing a great job running the school.  She is constantly training, counseling, encouraging and mentoring the teachers and students in order to first bring Glory to God and secondly to have a great school.

Finally, the sanctuary itself is used for our Nutrition Program.  Mothers of malnourished babies come 3 times a week to learn life skills such as sanitation, proper nutrition, hygiene, gardening, etc.  They also hear the Gospel and are being taught from the Bible.

These women are receiving help for their babies.  But, we are also working to change their lives - physically with education and food and spiritually through the Gospel.  Many of the women that have been in our program have received Christ.