Cultivate Discipleship Update

A SPECIAL REQUEST

We’ve had an exciting month so far here in Uganda. We’d been looking to buy land for a discipleship center for few months, and now that we found the land everything has been happening fast.  Now we’d like to ask for your help to keep us moving forward.

Many of you have supported us financially in the past and we can’t begin to express our thankfulness for you making it possible to be serving here. With the support you’ve given in the past we’ve bought the land, almost completed our first building (a dorm), and started farming. This is an amazing start and now we need your help to complete the first stage of the discipleship center.

 

                                                                         Building #1: Dorms                                                 
                                            (Four 10 x 12 ft rooms with a small porch in front)  

  Building #2: Open-air classroom  

 (20 X 26 ft classroom)

Along with the dorm, we need to build a classroom building in order to bring pastors and church leaders in for discipleship. This will be a simple open air pavilion that will be the primary point for instructing and interacting with leaders. This building will be the heart of the ministry where leaders will be together studying God’s Word, sharing with one another and praying for God to work in our lives and ministries.

In addition to the classroom building we need to dig a well to supply water to the center.  Currently, our water supply is limited to a hand-pumped well almost a mile down a small dirt road and a rainwater collection tank. Our desire is to have a well and solar powered water system installed that will supply the buildings with water. In addition, this water system will be used in the future for irrigation to crops that will help support the ministry’s continued expenses and growth.

Each of these projects will cost an estimated $6,000 (American)/$8,000 (Canadian) for a total cost of $12,000 (American)/$16,000 (Canadian). Please pray and consider how you can join with Cultivate Discipleship as we desire to see lives, churches and communities transformed through discipleship throughout Uganda and beyond. Thank you for your ongoing partnership in this ministry through your giving and prayers.

Blessings,
The Cyphers

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To Donate

USA:

1. Monthly
Fill out one of the forms linked below and mail to Harvest Alliance (address below).
Bank Automatic Giving Form
Credit Card Automatic Giving Form

2. Mail:
Mail a check (Memo line: The Cyphers) to:

ATTN: Harvest Alliance International
3620 Ocean Ranch Blvd.
Oceanside, CA 92056

3. Online: 
Click the link : Harvest Alliance International 
Donate button is located on the right hand side of the page.
Donation will be through PayPal.

CANADA:

1. Monthly 
Click the link below and fill out the form (beside Other, write The Cyphers).Automatic Withdraw Form

2. Mail/ In Person
Mail a cheque (Memo line: The Cyphers) or give through the offering:

Bethel Community Church
430 Lakewood Blvd.
Winnipeg, MB R2J 4B6

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E-mail us at:

cyphersinuganda@gmail.com

March 2018

MARCH 2018

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LAND: WE FOUND IT!

My hope and prayer when we shared last month about looking for land, was that in this month’s update we’d be able to show you the land that God had led us to buy. Last week I was becoming discouraged because we had found three great spots, but one by one they fell through. One is currently in court because they’re fighting over who owns the land, one spot raised the price on us and another has kept us waiting for over three weeks with no progress.
Then about a week ago, we heard about a new spot. Pastor Thomas and Pastor Alex went to check it out and wanted to take me there right away to see the land because it seemed like just the right spot. They were right. As of Easter Sunday, we have land!  We now have the place where we can begin building the discipleship center! It's 16 acres of about ½ old farm land and ½ bush. It’s roughly a 20 minute drive from Gulu so we’re close enough to town go back and forth easily but far enough away to be in a quiet area to limit disruptions when we begin training. Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us during the search. 
God is Good!

We will be posting a blog soon (http://cyphersinuganda.blogspot.com) about God working in the process of buying land. How he led us to a place that is ripe for ministry and connected us to the District Overseer for Agriculture who is excited to see how Farming God's Way works.

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CULTIVATE DISCIPLESHIP IS REGISTERED 

The month of March was really a breakthrough month for us. A few weeks ago, after filing the necessary documents we were approved to officially operate as an organization here in Uganda. The next step is continuing with the process of registering as a NGO (Non-Government Organization) with the help of MAF (Missionary Aviation Fellowship). We are planning to take a brief trip down to Kampala in the next week or so, in order to also start the process for our work visas and submit other paperwork needed for our NGO status.  

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THE NEXT STEPS

Now that we have land, it's time to get to work. This month we’ll put a fence up around the perimeter of the land, dig a pit latrine (very important) and begin building our first building. We will also begin to prepare and plant the land using the Farming God’s Way program. It's going to be a busy and exciting month as we begin seeing the plans God has given us take physical form.

We’ll keep you up to date with our progress on our blog and with plenty of pictures on Facebook. We’re also setting up our website and it should be ready to launch in the next few weeks. Technology really is a huge blessing that we can live on the other side of the world and still stay connected to our friends and family back home.     
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PRAYER POINTS

• A safe and productive trip to Kampala in the next week or so. 
• For the clearing, planning and preparing that is taking place on the land. For progress to be made in the two months we have until our trip back to North America.
• For connections with the community of Koc-Goma, which we will now be a part of.
• Financial partners as we begin to build the discipleship center.