It has Begun! Building a well for GRACE!!!

Fount of Mercy is happy to announce that we are moving forward with building a well for Grace. Through a donation from First Baptist Archer City, we will be building the well via the Busoga Trust Water Development.

The Benefits in working with Busoga Trust include:
1. They have been doing this for over 25 years, they have a good reputation
2. They are located in Nkozi, which is the same subcounty as the village
3. They will gather community support
4. They will organize a time for community sensitization
5. They will help people to properly care for the well and sanitation
6. They will ensure that it is done in a way that the community can support it

After a geological survey is conducted we will know more about the water table, what type of water source is most appropriate, and where it is the most appropriate. When this is finished, we will know how much building the well will cost. This is great news! Hopefully the well will be built by the time First Baptist Archer City arrives this summer :) See pic below to understand how badly they need a new well. Notice the color of the water and how stagnant the water is.

So Much Good

July 6, 2009
Written by Kathleen
First Baptist Archer City

We work with a village in the bush and last year there were about 9 or so pastors that traveled more than 10 miles on foot and bicycle to attend a pastoral training seminar. They wanted to learn form our Pastor as he did a teaching session with an interpreter. This year we will be blessing them not only with food like we did last year (we fed the entire village with a food distribution for about $300.00) but with 12 brand new bicycles so they can in turn go out and minister to others! We also will be bringing clothes this year and having suits made for about 7 pastors.

Blessing

August 4, 2007
Written by Vanessa
After arriving back in Kampala from our safari, we (First Baptist Archer City) went to a remote village called Buganga. It means "the smell of gun smoke" because there was so much fighting there during the war. Now it's mostly old people and orphans. Ed played his soprano sax for the church and then improvised with them as they sang and played their big drums. It was awesome to see the little old ladies gettin' down!!! Then Roger conducted his pastoral training workshop. The people and pastors who had come from far away remote villages just to be with us were constantly saying how blessed they were by it. It was all translated, of course. Then we brought in the gigantic sacks of food we had brought as gifts. It took two men to carry each sack into the wood-slatted-tin-roofed church building with dirt floors. As soon as the people saw the food they started clapping and doing their tribal "calls." It's a sound of celebration and great joy. Then we divided it up into small sacks for each person. We spent about $150 USD and literally fed a village...for about four days! It was one of my favorite experiences in Uganda so far!