Dear mum,

One of my street kids, Patrick Kayuwa, a 15 yr. old boy, was killed by a  mob when he was collecting empty water bottles near a garage where he was suspect to be a thief.  He was stoned to death. The body was taken to Mpigi for burial where he was brought up by his grandmother. A lot of hostility is happening to these street kids now, as there is an attempt by the government to sweep them out of town.

But Easter was such a great time we had with the kids in worship and praising. I first preached a message about the power of forgiveness for 30 minutes. After a short break, I was inspired to ask if there was any one who wanted to forgive someone publically. Immediately, Douglas forgave the town council for mistreating them at night by beating and arresting them.

Mom, Can you find the money for me to take this forgiveness message to all of the cities ? Maybe it will cause the abuse to stop. Also many street kids are returning home when they forgive their guardians.

Then Nick preached a message of 75 minutes which was enriched with words of wisdom and power. In fact i saw an audience of 260 kids, almost half of them shaking the heads in appreciation of what a powerful sermon this was, as he detailed, explored, and explained how powerful and able is the person of Christ Jesus.

As a testimony, a boy of 17years, Tumusime Richman, told me that he wanted kids in his hometown of Fort Potal to hear such words. He is one of the kids i first met, and this marked my first visit to Fort Portal for two days to start a new work there. Then I went to Hoima for more two days. Tumusime is going to be a great resource to us. He got saved two months ago when Nick gave him some clothes.

So mum, in church where this Easter conference was conducted, the church accepted to feed 70 kids and also letting them sleep in the church if we could only provide them with some sheets and mats. This is important because the kids will be safe there. Can you help with this?     Pastor Moses Kirya

Three boys, Richard 14yrs, Ronald 12yrs and Kasirye Evans of 16yrs came to me in a humble way. To my surprise, they thanked me about the message i preached to them two weeks ago about forgiveness of our enemies and even their parents, if any could have been hurt by the parent. These young men narrated to me their story.

“My mum refused to give me food for 24hrs because i refused to mop the house and to chop the fire wood she instructed me to do” said Kasirye. They all had similar reasons as to why they left their village as these 3 young men came from the same village of Budaka.

What do you want to do now, i asked them. “If i can get the transport back home i would go to my mother and apologize” Ronald expressed his willingness and I was very happy to see such a repenting heart. I continued, what of you? “Yes, even me” Richard responded. Eventually they all surrendered. I shared this with a friend of mine who could not believe that these kids were willing to back to their homes.

I took these kids back home just this week on Thursday. Their parents were very happy they give me a cock plus some g-nuts as sign of appreciation. It was indeed a feast for these recovered sons. I was invited back to check on them. I consider this as fruit of my labor and am so grateful.  Moses Kirya street pastor Kampala

My heart cried, “Lord i want You to teach me your ways that i might know You, so that i can continue to find your favor and directions.”

I suddenly felt easy at my work. I met these kids and we had to talk about the glory of God and his wonderful kingdom. Everybody was alert to hear from me and indeed they felt each word i mentioned, as plainly as they could. Everyone was excited to know that the ways of the Lord leads to revelations .

Today i will share the word of God with them, after I finish the Kumi street kids’ medical clinic. So mom i need you to pray for me. Simon

Many of you have pledged to help us or to advertise us in some special way. For that we are grateful.  Really grateful!  We have been working in Uganda, bringing home Kony’s child-soldiers from Congo, and Juba South Sudan since 2006. We have found many in Rwanda waiting for us too. All want to return home. That is our work. We have 14 kids from a recent Congo rescue waiting for school fees in Massindi.

Francis Olebe and his wife in Kitgum, are even now preparing grasses for roofing huts for the 65 people from his LRA group he has requested us to repatriate. He wants to put them on his land and insists that with a pair of trained oxen and plow ($1000) he will be capable of feeding them all.  Francis has started a church from the 24 orphans he is taking care of. It is the Little Miracle ABU Church, one of many that we have scattered in Uganda. We also have an ABU Church in Palaro (the only church in Joseph Kony’s home village.)

I suppose a short history of our Ugandan org. is in order here.  In 2006 I returned to Uganda to fulfill a word form God to me: return to this place

(a orphanage and high school in Palissa Uganda) and give each kid 30 minutes of individual time. Two weeks before I arrived in 2006 to fulfill that word, the local govt. swept the streets of the nearby city Mbale, of all the x-child-soldiers who had recently camped around the city and of all of the teenage street kids. They brought them to the very place I was coming to. It was a divine set-up! The place was swollen with Acholi x-soldier kids, whom I fell in love with.

One year later they were kicked out of the place through ethnic cleansing, and when I arrived in the middle of it, I told the police that I would take these kids. That decision changed my life forever. I put them into a wonderful boarding school in Sept. 2007 called Manafwa High School where our students still attend, and then in Nov. formed for them a Ugandan NGO called Active Blessing Uganda. They run that org. even today, holding all offices, with me as trustee.

My faith walk started in Sept. 2007 as I had no financing or means to keep these kids, whose numbers were swelling daily.  It is the same today. I write to my small mailing list telling of the things the kids are doing and asking God to move on people’s hearts to give for their work.  We do no fund-raisers unless others do it for us…

Please feel free to use this letter any way you want to tell others of our work in getting the Joseph Kony x-child-soldiers back home, transformed, and put to work helping others worse off than themselves.

Our Education bills are staggering and the food and rents also alarming.

Please do what you can to help us. In 2010,  96.7 % of monies given went to Active Blessing Uganda directly for the care projects and their education bills.

I hope that this letter is something you can use on our behalf, because WE DO THE WORK !  There was an Ohio Church group that just visited Francis’ church (under a tree) last Sunday, and Patrick Omony’s 96 orphaned war kids in Lamwo.  These things I write about can be verified is my point. We have a project of 22 deaf kids (with a vibrant silent church) needing rent, a project of blind, deaf and disabled kids kept by an x-child-soldier named Alexadrienne Adeke, and many more projects  you can discover at: http://ActiveBlessing.com

I am OCHAN RONALD, 19 years old, and ready to be a street kid’s pastor in Arura Town and District.

Hi mom,
i went to Arua town two weeks ago to visit street kids in my homeland. This was in my prayers for a long time. I left this town as an abducted child-soldier when I was so young, but i did not forget my fellows on the street. My prayer was answered recently through mum jane by sending me there as a new street kid pastor.

MY FIRST DAY ON THE STREET
When I reached Arua it was very late, when street kids had gone in their hiding places. I found somewhere outside to pass my night. In the morning i went early on the street and found out where the kid’s base from. In that place I found many crying, naked, sick, and disabled kids on the street in Arua town. I prayed for them, and introduced them to Jesus, and many were led to Christ.

Tonight is the start of a new organization for street kid evangelism; Active Blessing India !  It consisted of: a board meeting where every vote was unanimous, prayer with words of knowledge, a healing of a lung disorder, and a prophecy that began with, “I am charging ! I am charging !

The call to COME TO JESUS, is going out by the Holy Spirit using the mouths of believers, to the street kids in the cities of the world.  I will now be going to many countries to mobilize indigenous Christian ministries as well as street kid’s themselves, to 1. tell those who have never heard of Jesus, the good news of His amazing love toward us who were sinners but now are saved by grace.  2. To teach them how to pray for the sick among them, so that God can keep them alive.

This morning Emmanuel Thandu and his wife took me to the cities’ railway station to meet a group of kids.  I stood in the hot sun, with Thandu next to me to interpret into Tamil, and told the most eager listeners I have ever had, all about my lovely Jesus. They all prayed to receive him!  When I got into the car all I could say was, “I am the luckiest person on earth to get to do this glorious work.”

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A young man named Samuel, with a ministry to street kids in this city of Vishakhapatnam India, brought many of his Christian kids to meet me. Samuel is on the board of directors of Active Blessing India.

Dulapalli Rajendra and Samuel …….

He gathered about 45 of them at a church. His brother Rajendra, a physical education teacher, under the leading of the holy spirit began to teach them a old Christian folk song they did not know.  As it unfolded with some small corrections in their pronunciation and melody line, the presence of God began to fill the room. Soon they copied his dance to the song, and the glory became even more lovely…

By now I was standing and caught up in the most lovely melody I had ever heard with the words telling the story of Jesus. Soon he taught them another song even more beautiful than before!  I was totally in musician heaven ! I tried to sing along with it but the rises and dips of this old style song made it too hard for my western training to manage.

I simply relaxed into the beauty.

It was at this time that they began to pray for the salvation of other street kids and to pray for their needs. I grabbed my little camera trying to keep my tears out of the lens.

It was the most precious thing in this world.  I was in the rare gate of holiness through children.  EXQUISITE

If you would like to sow financially into this new work Active Blessing India, or into our Ugandan family of care projects and street pastors; you may designate your donation and I will use your money accordingly. I do not take a salary or live high in any way, bringing shame upon the name Christian, as I must minister to the very poorest on earth.

I have no interest in my physical comforts or lack of, nor in any name or reputation, and I promise to always do my best financially for those I am called to …in the fear of the Lord.  Jane

I am in Vishakapatnam, India, on the Bay of Bengal. I arrived Wednesday after surviving the Mumbai Airport, coming via Ethiopia, via Uganda. I had the worst time trying to figure out how this airport worked. (I finally paid some guy to get me a ticket, do baggage, get my stuff on the right plane, and show me how to manage the tight segregated security!) The airport was not disorganized. Actually it was very cleverly managed from a space the size of one gate servicing about 20 gates to many cities, by buses taking people from gates (which changed names every 20 minutes) to their far away planes. It was very clever —just confusing the first time.

I have partners for the street kids’ ministry in this city, named Pastor Emmanuel Thandu, and his wife Sharon.

I have been staying in his home with his family and am eating Sharon’s most delicious Indian food 3 times a day ! It is awesome. I am becoming rather spoiled with mango juice, watermelon, papaya, grapes, curried everything, and the lightest rice and sprouts ever.

We are working on setting up an Indian org. (society) named Active Blessing India. Our plans are for it and its’ web-site, to be the hub of future street kids’ ministry outreaches here and in other countries where God might send us. We plan to solicit funds from India and other places abroad through Active Blessing India, with the proper govt. clearance.

On Saturday we met another Pastor named Issac Chintala and his son Solomon, who desires to join with us in this work.

Solomon & Pastor Chintala of Faith Home Church                            Coconut Grove main street

They labor in a slum called Coconut Grove, evangelizing street kids. Pastor Issac was once a drunken street kid himself, until his glorious deliverance when calling on Jesus to heal his son who was 85% burned and not expected to live. He saw Jesus’ photo in a very bright light so chose to call on that God over Hindu gods. Jesus healed his son and Issac became a servant of God.

There are so many children left homeless because most of their parents are in jail for fighting, as that is what the place is known for. He works to find shelter for them in community halls. His church family cares for approximately 130 children. The ones I met were Christians and full of God’s life. They had clean clothes and much love. It was a beautiful work.

I told a roomful of 7-8 year-olds how much God loves their praise. I encouraged them to praise God from their hearts even when they were unable to praise him out loud.

I have been with the street kids in India two times now and see so much enslavement and exploitation by the kid’s “street families”.  They truly have no choices.  The young ones work and bring back the money to the leader who is generally a drug addict. This sin-filled world is truly a terrible place for unprotected children. I want to cry, but we must work. They need to know that there is a Jesus who loves them. I will be meeting many of them tomorrow.

Please join with me in this work among the young, with your gifts and prayers. You will become part of what God is doing. Your giving and care make you a part of this exquisite end-time harvest of those who are given no value or rights in this world. So far, only you and God know of their existence and cries for help.

Last week $2000 was pledged for matching, so if you desire to help us, your gift will be doubled. If you wish to send us $1000 for future matching please write. Melchizedekstreasure@yahoo.com

Please bless those who have never heard of Jesus with the gospel of His glorious love and acceptance.  jane

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Melchizedek’s Treasure, 16600 Saint Mary’s Church Rd., Aquasco, MD, USA 20608

I wanted to tell you about my Sunday. After I sent the newsletter early in the morning, Julius and Inno came to take me to meet the two groups of street kids they have tried to work with in their first two weeks on the job. This is a report of one of these groups. When we arrived, the kids were quarreling and refusing to go where Inno wanted them to go. So he started walking, and I followed him, and they all followed us too!

While others were being gathered, I let them ask their questions: Am I like those who just come to take their pictures?  Will I take them to school?  When Police get them on street what will I do to help them?  Am I putting them in care projects?  Will I bring them clothes?  When I explained that I was not taking them off streets but had something way better than that for them…I had their attention.

I began to tell them of our wonderful Jesus.  I showed them the bible and explained why it was special.  I talked of blood sacrifice …how the witch doctors always require that, but that God provided his own son to be the sacrifice for our sins. I asked who wanted to pray and they all did except for 4 big kids on the edge who were too high to listen.

After praying, they were so happy that they celebrated by licking cocaine right off their own hands !  This celebration was going on while Julius was telling them a testimony of how God supernaturally saved him from eating poisoned food one day, when he was on the street. The irony of it was too much for me.  God’s saving power from poison was being spoken forth while they were poisoning themselves. They have a long way to go !

It was at that time that their own leader began to get angry at their wildness. We re-gathered and I told them to listen and respect the two guys I had sent to HELP THEM LEARN A NEW WAY OF LIVING. No-one knew that teaching would immediately start.

Their leader announced it without knowing what he was doing, in his very loud voice, telling the young ones that they must change and stop taking drugs, gum, cig. & alcohol so that they can turn to the right way; because if they do not listen to the two Pastors they won’t get anything. Cothings would arrive and would go to another district if they did not respect the pastors, SO: all agreed to accept what the pastor’s teach them.  IT WAS A VERY GOOD DAY.

SUNDAY DINNER
It was time to eat. Inno went with the 25,000UGX to a hotel and asked the manager to cook food for them for that much money. The kids went into the hotel mis-behaving and sat at tables for the first time ever. The leader was served first and he became so HAPPY about that, that he demanded a fork and spoon.

When they served the youngest ones after the leader, a riot broke out because the pecking order had been violated. The leader once more had to demand a new hotel behavior. Soon all demanded forks ! And that is when the on-lookers began to gather to mock and laugh. People were saying, “Where did you get the money to eat like this?” …the kids said,  “Through our mom.”  Who is that mom of yours?  “She is a muzungu, named mama jane.” So they told Inno that she has done a good thing and they left while laughing. This was a Sunday dinner they will remember.

So goes the start of our new Lira work.

Inno Opio has no sponsor for the Lira work, so if anyone wants to sponsor his work, the cost is  $58 per month. It goes for food, housing and phone time.

Ronald Ochan needs a sponsor for starting his work in Arura which is in the corner next to Congo and Sudan.

Evans needs sponsorship for his new work on the 17 streets in Entebbe. Our Speter will be working with him in this.

I also need a $200 gift to fund and transport these street Pastors to our annual meeting next week. The meetings are crucial because of such rapid expansion.

May God Bless YOU greatly for caring about our humble work.    jane

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Melchizedek’s Treasure, 16600 Saint Mary’s Church Rd., Aquasco, MD 20608

Anyway, this is just a short note to let you know that all funds have now been matched in our funds drive. If anyone would like to donate $1000 for matching our matching funds drive can continue for as long as people are willing to give and keep it going. $3000 has been matched so far.

If God is speaking to you please obey His voice, as He knows how to run His business! When you are in heaven you will get to see just how He used you and what it accomplished. We must walk by faith in this area as that is the only path He uses!

I am finding in my own life, that my financial faith walk is just like Peter on the water. I can say that I am definitely provided for with our daily bread and the children I am sent to are provided for. His provision seems to be like the water, and we must learn to walk on it. My learning has been very rough but it is better now, only meaning that I am now more trusting and comfortable in walking on the water of His provision. May God give you grace in your own walk to accomplish His perfect will.
Love, Jane