Through your support, five women have left prostitution and have confessed Jesus Christ as their savior!

Our team’s White Stone Ministry, funded by your gifts, ministers to Kampala women who are at risk of being trafficked in our area, showing them the love of Christ while providing valuable job skills as they transition away from the sex trade.

God is doing great work in the five women participating this year as they grow in their new faith. They are learning to study God’s Word and have just finished the Gospel of John. They learn about love, unity, sisterhood, correction, and discipleship. We see fruit as they know what it means to be slow to anger and quick to listen. Each woman has begun testifying of how God is healing them of trauma in their lives.

Currently, three women are mastering the art of hairdressing, while the other two are honing their tailoring skills. Their trainers are delighted to report that the women are making significant progress. All five of them have been able to save money from the program and have secured rooms outside of the red-light district for the next three months. They are not just learning how to save money but also how to glorify God with their financial decisions.

We are humbled and grateful for the transformation we are witnessing in these women’s lives and their unwavering trust in Him for the future. Your support for our Kampala Urban Team is truly making a difference.

Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the people of Kampala God calls us to reach. Your prayers and sacrificial giving assist bi-vocational pastors in starting small businesses, minister to women trapped or engaged in the sex trade, and reach out to the refugees flooding into Kampala from other countries.

Pastors’ gatherings develop healthy churches. Thanks so much for your support of our monthly pastors’ breakfast meetings. Participation each month has been strong, with an average of 20 to 25 pastors at each gathering. By God’s grace and with your partnership, we have used Healthy Church Leadership training throughout this year and held training events on biblical worship, biblical prayer, biblical fellowship, and biblical preaching and teaching. In addition, we have more trainings scheduled for the remainder of the year. This training has given us the confidence to launch four training centers for the Kampala Baptist churches. We have identified two trainers for each of the four training centers and are mentoring them so they can offer training to other pastors.

Short-term training leads to long-term training. Just as physical exercise makes us stronger and often leads to more exercise, spiritual training tends to lead to more training within a group. In August 2023, 15 pastors completed a nine-month training course in church health and planting. We used material from an association of Baptist churches in the US, and pastors received lessons each week and then met monthly to discuss the training. Our goal in these sessions was for pastors to implement the knowledge they gained. Pastors learned a great deal from these times of equipping. One pastor stated, “I now have vision!” While another pastor commented how he now understands there are stages of spiritual growth for people in the congregation. Your generous giving provides these monthly training breakfast meetings, leading to more training opportunities throughout Kampala.

Join us in prayer:

• Pray churches will become healthier through this monthly pastors’ breakfast training and that encouragement and accountability will strengthen these pastors!
• Ask the Lord to use these nine-month equipping classes to increase church health and the number of churches planted here in Kampala.

Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.

Women in the slum brothels of Kampala, Uganda, are learning God has not forgotten them, there is hope and redemption in their life stories, and He has given them a new name.  

After Sarah’s husband passed away, her father-in-law sold everything they owned and put her out on the street. It wasn’t what she wanted for her life, but to provide for her children, she turned to prostitution. Sarah committed her life to Christ at the Bible study, and she knew she couldn’t go back to prostitution. She began making soap to bring in an income. Now she is a light for Christ in the slums, inviting her former colleagues to church and radiating the love of Christ to them. Read more …