Omecha Church
and Hope Orphanage
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Pastor Joshua Opio
Pastor Joshua, orphans,
and other children of the community.
See Photos and Videos Below:
The purpose of this website is
to give information about Omecha Church and Hope Orphanage - and to invite
you to support this ministry with
donations.
Link for Process to Donate.
ANY amount of money you donate would be
appreciated - greatly!
Omecha Church and Hope Orphanage are in Omecha Village, Amilimil Parish, Kuju Subcounty in the Amuria District of the Eastern Region of Uganda. Omecha Church is a congregation of The Church of Uganda - a member of the Anglican Communion. Omecha Church is in the Soroti Diocese area. (The word "Omecha" means "a place of rescue.")
Amuria, the larger town in the area is about 23 miles (36.5 kilometres) by road north of the city of Soroti and about 203 miles (327 kilometres) by road northeast of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. (See the maps below.) The native language of Omecha Village is Ateso, but the people also know English because of their schooling and since English is the official language of Uganda.
Pastor Joshua, orphans,
and other children of the community.
Hope Orphanage Children
Hope Orphanage is sponsored by and controlled by Omecha Church, i.e., "the church is the mother of the orphanage." In particular, the church budgets money for the orphanage, and the church committee that manages the church is the same one that manages the orphanage.
Omecha Church Members
Pastor Joshua and Omecha Church Members
What Omecha Church and Hope Orphanage Need:
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Videos showing appreciation for different gifts received:
Event 4 - March 2024
After receiving a donation, Pastor Joshua said "Ray.iam now going to sit together with my church committee and we shall see the best we can use this money for." Not too long ago, Pastor Joshua had previously said that they sometimes use the church building at night for prayers and as a place for orphans to spend the night. So, he and the committee decided to buy a simple solar lighting system, consisting of three lights for inside the church building. (See the images and video of the simple d.light D100 Solar System, setting up the lights, and the celebration.)
Pastor Joshua wrote the following about the March 2024 gift:
"Hello brother Ray thank you so much for the great support that you helped us with, I was able to buy 3 hyme books, a solar system, for the church,
we have been facing lots of challenges when it comes to night hours we have not been having light in the church, I was again able to buy a carpet for other people to sit on from church and also to sleep on it when it comes to night hours we have not been having where to sleep but we thank God for your prayers and your support.may the grace of God knowledge and wisdom always be with you and your family forever more."
Pastor Joshua also used part of the gift to help with the admission and tuition fees for a high school student there.
(He sent photos of the documents with the
student's name and very recent receipt stamp from the school.)
Especially note the video below showing church members saying a prayer of
thanksgiving, putting up the lights, and singing in celebration!
Praising God Video Link - April 2024
Event 5 - June 2024
Pastor Joshua wrote: "iam going to have a meeting together with my other church members to let them know that you sent us some money and I will agree with them on what to do with the money."
"Thank you so much for the support you gave to us it was really a wonderful blessing for the orphans here I sat together with my committee in church and the orphanage discussing how to spend the money and we prayed God to guide us and we spend the money on the orphans and we were able to help 25 orphans with full school materials like, mathematical sets, books, pens pencils, for all our children who had not gone yet to school and also those who were already at school but they were lacking school requirements, and they were too much happy and emotional."
Photo Slide Show, June 2024
(Different Class Groups)
Praising God Video Links - August 2024
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Link for Process to Donate.
ANY amount of money you donate would be
appreciated - greatly!
Contact Pastor Joshua directly through his Facebook account using Facebook Messenger:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090266094897