"We cannot all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love, and together we can do something wonderful." - Mother Teresa

April Mission 2025

Yoga noi! (Teso greeting)

Grateful and humble is how my heart feels to share with you the news of my next mission trip to Uganda and to ask for your support. Each trip grants me an opportunity to fulfill my life’s calling and to help meet the needs of our neighbors in Uganda. The defunding of USAid is greatly impacting some of our Ugandan partners who are serving villages that will suffer tremendously without our support.

Cheryl Hodge and I will leave for Uganda on April 24 to deliver computers, funds and other supplies to support primarily both medical and educational projects on this trip. With our team of only two people, we are again hoping the Lord will demonstrate again what He can do with small numbers. Any donation that you are able to make will go directly towards the projects we are planning for this year.

Bringing Hope to the Family is one of our Ugandan partner organizations which has been making a difference in the lives of orphans, pregnant women and HIV patients for 25 years this year. They are one of the primary reasons Embrace Uganda exists today. We have done several projects over the years to help them expand their work to provide shelter, food, healthcare and education for the children and even some adults in Kaihura and neighboring villages. Please see the attached flyer with highlights of the work they are doing.

African Church Empowerment Ministries is another long-term partner that we support in providing clean water, medical clinics and education for the children in the village of Koreng. The funds raised for this trip will help us provide laptops and lab testing equipment to be used for the medical clinics that we also fund for the school children in the village. The medical clinic we funded in the fall of 2024 provided treatment for 379 children who tested positive for malaria. Another flyer is attached showing the work that we were able to accomplish in the fall of last year.

Lastly, Out Pouring Grace Ministries was founded by Grace Kajoina to share the love of God with the children in the village of Kikyusa where she lives and where I had the fortune to visit in 2021 and to witness the move of God on the lives of the people her ministry touches. Lives are being changed because of her presence there and we are supporting her ministry to provide school supplies, shoes and clothes for the children in her village.

As we prepare to go in April, please prayerfully consider how the Lord is leading you to help meet the needs of the children in Koreng, Kaihura and Kikyusa. No matter how much or how little that you are moved to give, we trust that the Lord will supply every need according to His riches in glory.

You may make a tax-deductible donation by visiting https://embraceuganda.org/donate through Venmo or PayPal and selecting Mission Trips from the drop-down menu or by visiting https://onrealm.org/NewHopeMissiona/give/now and selecting Uganda Missions from the drop-down menu. You may also mail a check payable to Embrace Uganda, or New Hope Missionary Baptist Church to PO Box 52266, Durham, NC 27717-2266.

Love and blessings,
Cece
Min. Cecelia Horton

Dr. Dirk and Paige Hamp, with others, founded Embrace Uganda in 2007 after their adoption of a seven-year-old orphan girl from the western village of Kaihura, Uganda. Visiting the country and witnessing the need for medical care, clean water supplies and funding needs for orphaned school children, Embrace Uganda was created to encourage and empower a generation of orphans one village at a time!

Our Goals

  • To create long term partnerships with selected Ugandan communities that go deeper rather than wider.
  • The ultimate goal is to create self-sufficiency for the communities but this will take generations to accomplish as the needs are so overwhelming.
  • Empower orphans and vulnerable children in targeted communities by providing educational opportunities, thereby increasing their ability to support themselves and meaningfully contribute back to their communities.

Our Objectives

  • Provide quality health care for orphans and vulnerable children.
  • Facilitate meaningful and enduring relationships with Ugandan orphans and vulnerable children in targeted communities.
  • Partner with or otherwise assist Ugandan community development organizations to accomplish mutual goals.
  • Provide material and human capital for the creation of sustainable economic development in targeted communities.

Thank You to our Mission 2024 Corporate Sponsors