Featured Ministry: Amazima Ministries- Prt. 6

Hello, beautiful people! How would you feel if spent today talking about a group of beautiful women?

Vocational Projects:

Imagine you are a mom living in the slums of Masese. Your child is dirty, hungry, and sick. Recognizing your helplessness, you double over with heartbreak. You would give your life to make your baby well. Your options? Prostitution. Rumage through the slums. Brew alcohol. With these options, your life and the life of your family is on the line. What would you do? What would I do? (Vocational Projects)

Most likely we will never have those three options standing between us and a healthy child, but it is a grim reality for many families in Uganda. Women, living and breathing women, in slums know all too well that heartbreak. The women of Masese have known the pain of a lose-lose situation. They now know hope through the hands of Amazima. If you have been reading here this month, you know Amazima orchestrates beautiful happenings in the name of Jesus Christ. Did you know that Amazima has waded knee deep in the hurt, and has offered a respectful way for the women of Masese to provide for their families. Go to Amazima's website and on the front page you will see beautiful beaded necklaces made by the strong hands of the Masese women. Through the sales of necklaces the women are able to do something for their hungry and sick families. The project also allows the women to learn money management and spiritual discipleship (Vocational Projects). I know it's all too much!

Amazima says it best: Your support of Amazima's vocational programs builds entrepreneurship, restores dignity, and empowers the Ugandan people to work their own way out of poverty (Vocational Projects).
What do you say we do what we can to help! Remember that 10% of the profit made from our "Featured Item" this month goes to help Amazima. You can also click here to learn more about how you can help the women of Masese.

Be sure to check out Amazima Ministries online!

Enjoy your Day!

Jennifer

Featured Ministry: Amazima Ministries- Prt 5

Well howdy there! (Trying a new greeting. And I failed.) Redo:

Good Morning! Better?{ I'm going to come up with a clever new greeting. You just give me some time.}We're moving on to part five of Amazima Ministries. You love them, right? Me too.

Community Outreach:

Saturday mornings the children of Amazima's sponsorhip program gather around the "pavilion" to eat, study the Word, and to have fun with each other. It's a day of being a kid for kids who rarely get to soak up that role. Ugandan men are hired by Amazima to lead and to be positive role models for the kids each saturday. Amazima not only giving the kids opportunity, but adults as well. They long to see things change for the people of Uganda. And we get to "see" their heart as we learn about the amazing ways they are equipting the very heart-beat of Uganda- their people (Community Outreach)

Please visit their website here to see for yourself!

Enjoy your day!

Jennifer

Featured Ministry: Amazima Ministries- Prt. 4

How about those lovely kiddos from yesterday? Beautiful aren't they? I love that their futures are brighter because of the work of Amazima Minitries, along with and through people like you. They are not the only ones who benefit from Amazima. I'll let you hear more from the folks at Amazima:

Amazima has fallen in love with the slum community of Masese. We serve the people in Masese through feeding, vocational programs, Bible studies, low cost/free healthcare, HIV management and testing, malnutrition rehabilitation, and community service (Mases Outreach)

Mases Outreach:

Did you catch each of the amazing things listed above? They meet the people of Mases in their need with practical help- help for their physical and spiritual lives. Daily, Monday thru Friday, the orphans of Mases (1,600+) are fed through Amazima's feed program. Can we really grasp the magnitude of kids they feed on a daily basis? The children are fed on the school grounds. Not only are they fed, but every week they're able to take a plate of food home for their caregiver.

Another way Amazima reaches the people of Mases is through their vocational outreach. Through selling beads, women are able to provide for their families. You can click here to read more. Amazima provides for physical needs, but also gives the people the opportunity to provide for themselves.

That's food and vocational help, but there's more! The people are malnourished and disease ridden. Once every week, Amazima provides clinics for screenings and medical help, meeting their immediate and long-term physical needs.

Of course, I've only hit on a small portion of the outreach in Mases. Really, guys, it's amazing work! Please check it all out here- learn about how Katie is involved in all that goes on, read about "Nets not Caskets", and about Bible Studies held in Mases.

All this information can be found under Mases Outreach tab that is under the What We Do tab

Enjoy your day!

Jennifer

Featured Ministry: Amazima Ministries- Prt. 3

Good Morning! Where ever you are today, remember you will only live this day once. Live it well!

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Sponsorship:

This, friends, is just a glimpse of the faces of the sweet kids who are sponsored through Amazima Ministries. Beautiful faces. There are over five hundred kids sponsored through Amazima (Sponsorship). In the words of Amazima, A sponsorship through Amazima educates, nourishes, and changes the hearts of orphaned and vulnerable children (Sponsorship). They do that through...

• Education at a Christian school
• School supplies
• School uniform
• 3 meals a day
• Medical care
• Christian discipleship
• Spiritual growth activities for their families and/or guardians (Sponsorship)

For the kids of Uganda this is a very big, and life changing, deal. Are you interested in Sponsoring a child through Amazima? Just click here to start today!

Thanks for reading and for your support of the ministries featured here! To go to Amazima Ministries website click here.

Enjoy your day!

Jennifer

Featured Ministry: Amazima- Prt. 2

Good morning, friends! I hope that you are having a lovely morning. It's part two of Amazima Ministries! I love introducing a new ministry. My prayer is that you guys would get as excited about these ministries as I am, and that you would partner with me in praying for them throughout each month. 

Amazima (uh-mahz-i-muh) means "truth." The beautiful people at Amazima hold up truth everyday to the Ugandan people they reach. It's a beautiful thing.

History:

Amazima Ministries was founded by a spunky 19 year old in 2009. With arms wide open to love, Katie left a home she knew and loved to embrace a people she would come to know and love. Under Katie's leadership Amazima, has reached hundreds with continuing success. They've loved, provided for, and witnessed to. "Truth", indeed. On their website here, they list five ways they help the people of Uganda.

- Education Sponsorship
- Masese Outreach
- Community Outreach
- Vocational Projects
- Discipleship (History)

Over the next Featured Ministry posts, we'll be looking at each one of these ways more closely. Exciting, right? Now, why don't you mosey on over Amazima's Website!

Enjoy your day!

Jennifer

Featured Ministry: Amazima Ministries- Prt. 1

Happy June! This month we will welcome summer. Okay, maybe just us folks who love fun in the sun will be celebrating. Hopefully, will be over many good days in the sun this June. For you winter-lovin' people, hang in there. Summer will not last forever. Since the calendar has rolled around to June, today we are introducing our Featured Ministry for this month.

Are you ready?

....Imagine that drum roll for me....

Amazima Ministries

Eek. So Exciting.

You may have heard of this amazing ministry before (Does the book Kisses from Katie ring a bell?) or maybe not. It really doesn't matter because I've got you covered! This month we will talk all about Katie Davis and the wonderful things that Amazima Ministries does in Uganda Africa.

To get a head start, visit Amazima Ministries today!

Enjoy your day!

Jennifer