Tooro babies home outreach

 Tooro babies home outreach,
we were able to share with the young ones the first honey from our harvest..
it was a blessing to bless them.

Our first harvest of honey,, God is faithful,

Stars of Hope Ministries Front Line News…..

Stars of Hope Ministries Front Line News…..

I greet you in the mighty name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, it’s been a while since I last wrote to you the ministry updates, and a lot has happened God has been very faithful in everything we have done. It would have been very impossible if it wasn’t that God has been with us.

This year we planned to have a number of things to done, we have been able to achieve most of them, and these are, a worship Conference in August, and as well as starting up a Bee keeping project that can help the community and the ministry objective of reaching out to the HIV/Aids affected and infected children, families and communities in East and Central Africa. As well as a Kindergarten school.

Below are the updates.

 1. We prepared a worship conference in August and it was amazingly wonderful, the concert was attended by a total of 4000 people here in fort portal, we had politicians, Religious leaders, people from all walks of life, Moslem, believers and Unbelievers gathered together with us to worship God.  We hope to always hold these conferences annually, God has blessed us with an amazing Team of young and old, who have devoted in their time to compose songs, sing all with me as well as work in the outreach programs.

We hope to build a house of worship and prayer soon as the lord provides, my dream is to see the African bride worship God in Truth and spirit, together in Unity, share the word pray and receive Prophetic words, and also learn to pray prophetically.

Our sincere thanks to all friends and families that Gave in to have this Event happen this year, May the God of Isaac ,Jacob and Abraham, Bless you greatly, (Duet 28:1-14) you mean a lot to the Kingdom of God, we are proud of you.

In our worship ministry we have one Guitar, and its codes, we need another guitars, and a small portable sound system that can help in our future worship gatherings as well as in bush bush worship outreaches. You can contact me if you can help in any way. Bless you.

2. We have been able to begin Bee Keeping with the Help of Bee keepers for Christ, we now have three of our hives Colonized and in March we are going to have our first Honey Harvest, we hope to have at least 20litters of Honey for the beginning. We shall sell some to buy more Hives, and share some with HIV/Aids infected people because they need it more since it’s a highly nutritious Food.

We hope to extend the project to DR Congo to the pygmy communities; these people suffer a lot with issues of food, since they are being forced to leave the forest where they get food, to be brought to Bantu communities the life they are not used to. They are hunters and they also feed on wild Honey as their staple food, they don’t know how to keep bees for proper honey harvesting, they kill all the bees and eat the Honey which is very Destructive, thus they lose all the bees that would help them get more honey in future, I hope we can train them and they learn to become Bee Keepers since they even live in the Forest.

Besides Honey as a product of Bee Keeping, there is also other important products like, Propolis which serves a lot of Purposes, also Wax with which we can make candles, since in most homes use Kerosene which they Burn to get light, Candles would be cheaper to burn, and many other products which can help in many ways.

In this bee keeping outreach project we need more bee hives as well as the apparatus to handle honey, and process it into these useful products. We so far have been able to get more Bee keepers who are working alongside us, who can sell us the honey, and other products.

We borrowed the land we are using to keep bees, and the land is small, also the owner wants us to start renting it beginning with March immediately after our first harvest. We now believe God for our own land where we can effectively carry out our farming and ministry, on this land God is going to give us, we shall put up more Hives and a school for training other people that would like to become bee keepers, as well as a place to process the honey for more products. In this school we hope t bring the pygmies in for training and send them back home, since traveling from Congo to this place is closer. And other training for the pygmies shall take place in Congo for those that cannot move into Uganda for training.

3. We have started on the program to help the kids who are abandoned on the street, as well as the HIV/Aids infected and affected families, this month we were able to identify the ones that are most in need, God provided and bought them blankets, and clothes, and food. We hope to house them in future as the lord provides.

We have identified a place where we need to put a kindergarten school, this place is called Busanza in Kyenjojo District western Uganda, the kids of 3years walk 18kms every day to and from school, the place has only one government school which is of very low standard and the parents take their children to these distant school for better education but the kids get to school when they are very tired and thus they don’t get what they struggle for, the biggest percentage in this area is not educated at all, there is no any health facility in this area, and because of poor standards of living people even give birth in  their homes.

I feel giving education to this community would be saving it from a lot dangers that they face because of ignorance, I have agreed to the man who owns one house to rent us his house and he agreed to gives to us at $38 per month, though it needs some renovation, and cleaning, we will also need some chairs, as well as office furniture. We hope to get this school running next year in Febuary, My intention is to help especially the Children that have lost their parents get a chance to learn. And on this house we shall also put a rescue home for the homeless and un parented. We hope to begin with few class rooms. And grow slowly.

You can contact me for more information, if you can advise, of help in any means we need you much more than you can imagine, any contribution will help greatly.

Contact me on. Email: ediebusi@gmail.com, or starsofhopemins@mail.com.

Tell: +256 788 44 70 23. 0r +256 706 303 362.

Blessings

Edwine Businge ( usalama Child)

Bee keeping For Christ

Bee Keeping Ministry

Bee Keeping is farming the God’s way for it gives one time to do ministry and also produces products that can make ministry enjoyable, since it can help provide honey products that can help the needy and the sick, especially honey is a precious food for the malnourished and those that need to improve their immunity. Especially for the HIV/AIDS affected people and families, and also the Pygmies who live in the Forrest especially in the Ituri Forrest of DR Congo

v  HIV/AIDS patients can benefit from the project by getting honey which is at the same time food and a medicine, propolis which cures a number of diseases and besides while they keep bees they will also earn a living through harvesting and selling the honey.

HIV/AIDS affected families, can get school tuition as they sell the honey and also get it as food and medicine, which can improve their lively hood and also improve their state of life as they live with HIV/AIDS patients or live with HIV/AIDS themselves.

Purposes of Bee keeping to HIV/AIDS affected and infected peoples

1.      Honey is Medicine to the patients

2.      Honey can be sold to get money, ( Tuition, buy food, get money or transport and communication)

3.      Bee keeping can help keep them Busy other than keeping their lives worried about death and how to live their children behind when they die.

4.      Bee keeping will restore hope to the patients. 

      we have begun this with one step and God will lead us to the best of his will.

 The Pygmies who live in the forests without any means of getting food apart from the honey they Hunt which is now scarce because of over cutting down of forests where they have lived all their lives, some even can’t afford a meal of food a day, thus bee keeping can provide for them food, Employment, Medicine and also be their economic activity, since they are naturally weak people who can’t do heavy work that need much energy.  Bee keeping is the only activity they can do easily and without a lot of concentration and skills. Once they are showed what to do and how to do it.

Blessings
Edwine

Worship And praise Concert, August 2013

 1 Chronicles 16:29 - Give unto the LORD the glory [due] unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

Jeremiah 31:4 - Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

 Job 21:11 - They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.