WHAt WE DO, and you can, too!

Below are a few of our favorite ministries in Uganda and Kenya.

MANNA

MANNA in Uganda is a six month free food program with the purpose to teach people to save the money they would have spent on food, so that they can use their savings as start-up funding for a small business, which we also teach how to begin and manage. These businesses generate profits for their family so that when their six month supply of food is finished they are left with an established legal income. This is a hand-up rather than a handout. Approximately 3000 people are affected through this generosity of the IMFC team. Though listening to the Gospel is not mandatory to participate, the Gospel is shared, people are discipled, and lives are forever changed - God is glorified.

IMFC Kenya does the MANNA program in a different way, but it has very similar results. The leadership in Kenya has set the same goals, but instead of providing food, they take care of a family’s rent and health care.

With your prayers and financial support more people can be reached.

IMFC is making disciples by the hundreds of thousands. Those of you have participated - just like us - stand amazed at what God can do. In this movement of God, we see thousands and thousands of “normal” people producing disciple makers. They do this by doing the Great Commission. They produce disciple makers using a simple strategy found in Scripture. "What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also."  (2 Timothy 2:2) IMFC prints and distributes hundreds of thousands of books to help produce these disciple makers. The truth is that we never have enough and even without the influx of volunteers in this Covid plaqued 2020 the demand for materials is more than ever before. We ask you to pray about helping us provide them. To print locally and distribute each book costs approximately .50 cents.

The bottom line is that with more men and women living like Jesus taught us to live means a better, safer world.

Prisons

The IMFC works with prisoners and guards alike making disciple makers for Jesus and giving them true freedom. In cooperation with the prison system of Uganda, the IMFC is a course that many prison guard trainees take before graduating training school and taking their post throughout the 212 prisons in Uganda. For the prison system we sponsor netball teams for the guards and often provide beds, septic systems, soap and feminine products for prisoners within the system.

Covid of course changed things, and the IMFC staff could no longer enter the prisons, but because there are thousands of prisoners and hundreds of prison employees who found Christ through the IMFC’s efforts, they continued sharing and making a difference among those in prisons. The IMFC continued supplying prisons with books, basic needs and helping fund prison projects when we can.

REFUGEES

The IMFC has planted house churches and we are making disciples who produce disciples throughout the UN refugee camps scattered across Uganda, but often there are small pockets of refugees that are somewhat outside the official UN system living in a commune like setting. They are made up of mostly widows and children who were sent to Uganda by their fathers when the civil wars began, sadly those fathers are no longer in the picture for some reason - probably a casualty of the wars - no one knows. Some of the women and children have registered with the UN but others have not. We strongly encourage all of them to do so. Without official registration and recognition there will be no services for them, and they will be illegally in Uganda. Even with registration the services and help they receive is meager at best and must do whatever they can to survive. The IMFC has a special Manna program assisting many of these forgotten refugees in special and unique ways, so that when we leave they can provide for themselves. Although the stories all sound the same, every situation is unique.

Women & CHILDREN

Women and children in Africa are affected adversely by many issues. One of those issues is safe and sanitary conditions for childbirth. The hospitals and clinics refuse service if women cannot pay for the materials needed for the birth. Often they can’t afford to even get to the clinic, so the IMFC provides free materials the clinics or midwives might need to deliver those sweet newborns for many women. The materials are sterile and are contained in what we call MAMA kits. As well the IMFC teaches women and girls how to make washable, reusable hygiene products out of materials they have readily available which provides freedom for so many women and girls. We call these just trainings.

Disciple Making

The IMFC is nothing if it is not making disciples who reproduce more disciples. We strive to be the answer to Jesus’ prayer in Matthew 9 when He prayed, “Send out the workers.” We call the method of disciple making - Four Stages, but you might recognize it better as a classical discipleship making model. It is the method Jesus and the early church used when they grew exponentially. We incorporate a discipleship curriculum into the discipleship process, called - Bible Way. It was gifted to the believers in Uganda by by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention years ago. It was written by and IMB missionary to East Africa named Tom Small. He is no longer living, but his wife is, and she is excited that 250,000 people are still using their materials to follow and grow in Christ. Bible Way consists of 12 books with each book contains a test that the one being discipled completes and returns to their key leader who grades it. If they receive a passing grade then they are promoted to book two and so on. Certificates of completion are given, and it is through this correspondence system that we know who is being discipled, where they live, and if they are discipling others. It is a good system that enables us to track the work.