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A Christian based organization providing Christ centered care to patients living with HIV/AIDS, promoting Obedience based Discipleship, home visits to PLA's, HIV/AIDS counseling, supporting Income Generating Activities for PLA'S and Community Members, Seeking Opportunities to show the love of Jesus,and Prompting HIV/AIDS Prevention and Training in Hygine. We are committed to seeing indiviguals, families and communities transformed by God spiritually, socially and economically

WHO WE ARE

Words of Hope is a Christ-centered, biblically grounded, community organization aiming to radical obedience based personal discipleship in Christ Jesus. Our commitment to Jesus propels us to nurture authentic relationships with one another; build healthy churches; transform our communities, and engage every member in hands-on ministry. "As an organization built on prayer, purpose, and passion, we are in the forefront of creating a community of faith where people gather as one in worship, service and work Looking for opportunities to daily live for Jesus Our work is guided by our knowing that "The heart of the gospel is God's redemptive love. In our life together, the world will see the power of forgiveness to overcome alienation, the strength of love to transform hate, the power of grace to break the bonds of guilt, the triumph of hope over despair, and the victory of faith over doubt. "Through the cross of Christ we embrace everyone as neighbor. Our vision for mission energizes a multitude of servant ministries of evangelism, discipleship, leadership, new church development, social justice, economic development and education. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we work together in mutual submission, humility, love, and giving that the gospel might be preached and lived in our communities."

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Our Approach to Community Work


We at Words of Hope describe our work as empowering Men, women and children, providing assistance to communities and resources for people to make a difference in their own lives, and ensuring access to resources and tools for change.

Our multi-faceted development approach is community driven, low-tech and sustainable in the long run. It is targeted specifically to the local community's needs and guided every step of the way by the community that we serve.

There is no magic here, just providing the information and tools that people need to make a sustainable difference in their own lives. This is the essence of empowerment and what we accomplish every day with our work. Our approach is working, women are starting their own businesses, children are learning to read, families are staying healthier, and have more food to eat. This is how we eradicate poverty and how we change the world, one man, one woman, one child, one family at a time.

We have come to learn from the communities where we work that community members have the desire to change and all they need is simple facilitation, providing a bible for example to one family, motivates them to seek the truth for a changed life.
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Home Based Care

Home Based Care Many people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda regularly experience stigma and discrimination because of their illness. They are often marginalized by family, community, and work-place. A primary task in HIV/AIDS care and education is raising awareness in the community, as we work with families to decrease such harmful reactions. In this project, a network of trained community caregivers has been established within the local community. Together with the Words of Hope team members, these caregivers work directly with sick adults and children in the villages. Through the home-based care program, patients receive food, medical supplies, clothing, linens and counseling. Emergency care is also available to provide food parcels, clothing and counseling to those with an immediate need.

Passion Project

Passion Project Communities are being encouraged to start the passion fruit growing project to sustain their lives and meet the basic needs of life. Training is given to the community members and free seeds are given. Besides providing income, transport to hospital, soft drinks for patients and sometimes school fees or books to support children in school, the passion project has provided work therapy to patients and also patients and community members involved are being encouraged to tithe and support the local churches. Visiting the passion project. Words of Hope counselor showing Mrs. Joy how to help her passion fruit climb for better production

Clinic based counselling

Words of Hope works hand in hand with the ISS AIDS clinic which is located at the regional referral and national referral hospital for western Uganda, the Municipal clinic and Katete health center III to provide counseling services to clients with HIV/AIDS. We send a team member to each clinic twice a week to provide counseling and support. These also book clients who need home based care that are later visited by the team. The counselors are also expected to Initiate conversations, support, in counting medicine and creating relationships with the clinic staff to provide an avenue for sharing the gospel. Social support is given to desperate patients and in addition patients can talk to our counselors for any other matter that is not necessarily medical.

Adult literacy class

In 2008 all words of hope team members underwent a training course for teaching adult literacy. With a class completed for Ladies in Kaberebere, we Currently we have one more class going on for women in Kagando and here we send a team member once a week to teach and check on the progress of the class and also do group based HIV/IDS counseling and Discipleship training. These Ladies can now read the sweetest news in their own local language that Jesus is the way the truth and the Life. Writing their names was impossible a year ago and they could only thumb print. Today this is history. These ladies meet in the house to hear the gospel and share their problems. They live in the town where most of them are widows and are faced with many challenges. Meeting together once a week helps them to draw strength from each other share ideals and feel loved. Reading the bible together keeps them united and looking for opportunities to help one another.

Poverty Eradication and food security

Poverty Eradication and food security With most of its people engaged in agriculture, Africa is a continent of farmers. Africa also, paradoxically, is a continent of hunger: with a third of its people suffering from malnutrition, it is the largest food-deficit region in the world. Here are some telling facts: • 70 percent of Africa's people are engaged in agriculture. • One of every three people in Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from malnutrition. • Worldwide, per-capita food production has increased by 20 percent since 1975. In Africa, total food production has increased but food production per-capita has dropped by 10 percent, due to factors such as growth in population and erosion of the natural resource base. • Sub-Saharan Africa has 13 percent of the population of the developing world ― but 25 percent of the malnourished people. In addition to malnutrition, food insecurity results in a wide range of other health problems as well as environmental degradation and poverty. Conversely, to the extent that food security improves, most facets of life in rural Africa improve as well. (Statistics, FAO ("State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006"). With our poverty eradication projects, we hope to reduce poverty levels and improve food security level. The newly implemented piggery project and the existing seed program are expected to go a long way in supporting communities

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS has hit Sub-Saharan Africa harder than any other world region ― destroying lives, deepening poverty and hampering the overall advancement of nations. Africa's first cases of HIV/AIDS were identified in 1983. By the late 1990s, AIDS had become Africa's leading cause of death. By 2007, some 22.5 million Sub-Saharan Africans were living with HIV or AIDS; and strikingly, 61 percent of Africa's AIDS victims are women. Sub-Saharan Africa has 11 percent of the world's population but: • 68 percent of all people living with HIV or AIDS (including nearly 90 percent of all children living with HIV or AIDS) • 68 percent of 2007's new HIV infections • 76 percent of 2007's AIDS-related deaths • 80 percent of all AIDS orphans Not "only" the percentages, but also the actual numbers of HIV/AIDS sufferers, new infections, deaths and orphans in Africa are the highest in the world.( Statistics: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2007; UNFPA (population) (Updated, Jan. 4, 2008) Prevention While the crusade for drugs and condoms marches on, WORDS OF HOPE calls for behavior change and education. Voluntary testing, counseling, education and equipping is all part of the cure for AIDS. Training 1) Train people in both spiritual and practical ways to go to the community with tools that will bring hope and healing to those they care for. 2) Equip people in a way that they can duplicate that equipping within their communities with a heart to care for the poor and needy through community development. 3) Partner with a wide variety of churches, organizations, and people to bring that hope and healing along with God’s love in a deeper way to each member of their community. It is important to us that in all the projects we are able to maintain our core values. 2) Training goals and valves • Worshipful Attitude - We want everything done in a way that worships and honors God. Especially as we care for others, we know that Jesus says when we care for the least among us it is just like caring for Him. • Christ-like Servant hood - The people we are serving should feel loved, empowered and released into their calling. They should be honored and able to maintain their cultural identity. • Local Leadership - All projects as much as possible should have local leadership throughout the life of the project, local leadership and responsibility should be ever-increasing as much as possible. • Transformation - We desire to see transformation of families, communities, and nations through the Kingdom of God being demonstrated in various ways. • Sustainability - We seek to introduce sustainable methods in all aspects of our community work. • Reproduction - We want everything we do to be reproduced easily by members in the community • Multiplication - We want to use methods and ideas that can be multiplied whenever possible • Empowerment of the person and Local Church - When possible, in most circumstances, we will seek to work with and empower local churches and local church leaders • Compassion - Acts of mercy and compassion will be a part of all our ventures, purposefully demonstrated especially to serve as training/discipleship opportunities with our communities • Discipleship - All trainings will be intentional to make disciples and to train trainers. Facilitating a place to put into practice what has been taught will be a priority. • Integrity - In every way we are seeking to show integrity. We want to be true and honest in the things that we say and do.

Our Beliefs

As a Christian Based organization committed to making a Biblical response to the needs of the poor throughout the community, we accept and proclaim the historic truths of the Christian faith including the following: We hold that the Lord our God is one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that he fulfils his sovereign purposes - in creation, revelation, redemption, judgment, and the coming of his kingdom - by calling out from the world a people united to himself and to each other in love. We acknowledge that though God made us in his own likeness and image, conferring on us dignity and worth and enabling us to respond to himself, we now are members of a fallen race; we have sinned and come short of his glory. We believe that the Father has shown us his holy love in giving Jesus Christ, his only Son, for us, while through our sinfulness and guilt, we were subject to his wrath and condemnation; and has shown his grace by putting sinners right with himself when they place their trust in his Son. We confess Jesus Christ as Lord and God; as truly human, born of the virgin Mary; as Servant, sinless, full of grace and truth; as only Mediator and Saviour, dying on the cross in our place, representing us to God, redeeming us from the grip, guilt and punishment of sin; as Victor over Satan and all his forces, rising from death with a glorious body, being taken up to be with his Father, one day returning personally in glory and judgement to establish his kingdom. We believe in the Holy Spirit who convicts the world of guilt in regard to sin, righteousness and judgement; who makes the death of Christ effective to sinners, declaring that they must now turn to Christ in repentance, and directing their trust towards the Lord Jesus Christ; who through the new birth makes us partake in the life of the risen Christ, and who is present within all believers, illuminating their minds to grasp the truth of Scripture, producing in them his fruit, granting to them his gifts, and empowering them for service in the world. We believe that the Old and New Testament Scriptures are God-breathed, since their writers spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit; hence are fully trustworthy in all that they affirm; and are our highest authority for faith and life. We recognize the Church as the body of Christ, held together and growing up in him; both as a total fellowship throughout the world, and as the local congregation in which believers gather We acknowledge the commission of Christ to proclaim the Good News to all people, making them disciples, and teaching them to obey him., And We acknowledge the command of Christ to love our neighbours, resulting in service to the church and society, in seeking reconciliation for all with God and their fellows, in proclaiming liberty from every kind of oppression; and in spreading Christ's justice in an unjust world ... until he comes again