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Uganda
is one of the African countries situated in the eastern part of Africa.
It is a very beautiful country which was formally a British colony and
gained its independence on the 9th October 1962 but currently going
through issues of all sorts poverty, homelessness, instability,
orphanage and HIV/AIDS being just some of them.
Since independence
in 1962 political instability hit Uganda up to 1986. Many people were
killed during this time and many children were left without parents or
guardians. The Aids epidemic has also claimed over 500,000 people and
caused helplessness to over 1,500,000 orphans in Uganda since 1981.
To-date insurgency in the North continues to claim lives, hundreds of
children have no shelter, and hence no education or hope because their
parents are either dead or lost. Although Uganda now has a stable
government and God is awakening the church to do something to help the
situation, poverty is still rampant in Uganda, yet there is no
Government welfare fund to assist unemployed people and lots of
children are leading very rough lives even to the point of death.
The Uganda
Government does not have any social fund at all to help out people in
need and Ugandans who are not employed are dependent on relatives and
friends, and those without family are at the mercy of God and the
community.
God has inspired us
with a vision to help children get a better place of residence in a
home from where they can be assisted with their day to day living needs
like inner healing, shelter, education, feeding, treatment, nurturing
and encouraged to have hope in God regardless of their circumstances
etc,
ABBA
Father’s House is a Christian charity formed to create homes
for disadvantaged children such as orphans and children whose parents
have abandoned them. We have a commitment to give them hope and to
encourage them to look to Jesus for an assured future and by so doing,
the children can develop a God dependent attitude which casts out fear
and heals their hurts.
Our
aims and Obligations
We are pregnant
with a Godly vision to parent children, especially orphans by meeting
their spiritual, physical and financial needs. We need adequate
resources to provide for their needs for shelter, food, health care and
their emotional, educational and practical needs so that even though
they do not have natural parents or carers, they too can have decent
lives and hope for a better future.
The name ABBA
Father is inspired by the Holy Spirit in the book of Romans 8:15-17
which says ‘For you did not receive the spirit of bondage
again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry
Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we
are children of God, and if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint
heirs with Christ if we indeed suffer with Him that we may be Glorified
together. The Bible also says in Romans 8:32 that the reason why God
did not spare His own Son (Jesus Christ) from the cross was to freely
give us all things with Him.
The above
scriptures and many more can help to bring hope to whosoever takes them
to heart. Although we have natural fathers and mothers, God is our main
father who is well able to raise us up from any circumstances even when
our parents have died or abandoned us.
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