Merry Christmas and Happy New Year: Noheli nziza n’umwaka mushya muhire

We at Emmaus Gospel Outreach wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are so grateful for your continuous prayer and financial support. Your sacrificial giving has allowed the 400 students at the Emmaus primary school to enjoy a wonderful Christmas celebration.

After the Christmas church services the children and staff were treated to a delicious Christmas meal. The photos below may not look like your Christmas dinner but it was certainly greatly appreciated by these children.

Christmas Day meal

It costs about $600 to provide this “once a year” meal. That may sound like a lot but it feeds over 400 people, that’s figures out to about $1.50 per person. In comparison, our Christmas meal for 10 people is over $10.00 person. And we are far less appreciative of it than those children are. We will have another great meal tomorrow and the day after that, and on and on. They will not get another meal like this until next Christmas. Please think about them and pray for them as you open your gifts with family and friends this Christmas.

May the God of the Universe greatly bless you and yours.

Published by Ken Merrill

Founder and director of Emmaus Gospel Outreach "EmmausGO". Our organization supports a free primary school for 400 refugee children, mostly orphans and underprivileged, in Uganda Africa on the Nakivale Refugee Settlement.

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