New year 2011
Do Not Despise Small Beginnings
By Ron DeVore | January 6, 2011
We pray you have a wonderful and prosperous New Year!
Greetings to our Mission Partners,
Thank you one and all for your hand of love in this mission, helping to bring us to where we are today. I am sure without you we would be somewhere back a few miles but instead we are way ahead of anything we dreamed as younger missionaries 24 years ago when we finalized our plans to visit Uganda for the first time. Can you imagine at the age of 50 leaving for the mission fields?
Kneeling for prayer with Steve Mayanja, the bible school attendee from our own local school, Seattle Bible College, and Mama Shirley on that very electrifying day early into the time we had arrived, I had a visit from God; a real vision. In that vision I saw a few scenes from the story of the “feeding the five thousand,” I saw the baskets of food that were taken up by the twelve disciples and incredibly I saw each of the twelve baskets fill up and then take flight; right there before my eyes. Each basket had the name of a portion of ministry as a label on the side such as; “Schools”, “Churches”, “Crusades” and so on. I recognized God was showing me He could easily supply all of our needs even if what we started with was very small or even empty baskets.
Today I remember that word from Zechariah that says, “For who has despised the day of small beginnings?” I stand at awe at the mighty Hand of God.
Steve Mayanja, now known as Pastor Steve and the Chairman of my national board, and I, at that point in time could not fathom how anything of any size could grow from this small beginning to 120 churches in Uganda, plus more in Sudan, Kenya, and the Congo, etc. Plus the many schools we own and operate today in Uganda, Sudan and so forth. We stand in amazement even now after almost 24 years have gone by and so much is being done by His Grace and Mercy.
We little dreamed of the Bethany Baby House where we now have our first group of abandoned babies, ten in all. The second floor is now under construction where as soon as it is done we will be licensed for a total of fifty babies; we are excited! Pastor Dave Easterly together with his wife Darlene and the Sudan brethren, operate our Sudan operations, they have finished phase one of a beautiful school in our home village with over two hundred in attendance learning to know who and what Jesus is. Pastor Mike Vilumsons and his wife Becky operate our Prison Ministries with two full time teams and work in sixty prisons throughout the month. Around 400 prisoners are born again each month.
Pastor Brian Bandelman and wife Shelly together are the Directors of Youth and Child Affairs adding professionalism to these desperate areas of mission. Pastor Kyle Ashcroft and his wife Laura operate our Village for Orphans in the NE corner of the nation; they are caring for ten or more orphans with more coming as soon as we finish this wonderful ten-home village. The outside is complete with a playground for the kids and a church; this creates a very powerful statement for the greatness of God in this far flung place. Laura also has her own operation of hygiene care and medical care for the many people in the village who need such help desperately.
Finally, our own Pastor Scott and Brenda Volz, the Executive Director of the Mission as well as Brenda the Director of Adoption Operations, Rozena Erbes our Director of Hannah’s House for abused and forgotten women, and the work of Steve Mayanja as the Senior Pastor of our first church which now has around 1800 or more attendees, brings our focus back again to where I started this letter; despise not the day of small beginnings!
We started with a total of $450.00 per month total income for monthly support and have now grown to more than a million dollars a year income to the mission! This allows us to build, plant, and spread to other nations where in some cases we are reaching totally un-reached persons, such as in Bangladesh. It allows us to save children by providing them with an education and teaching them the love of Jesus, ordain graduates from our own two Bible Colleges, dedicate buildings, provide medical help, have crusades and keep on rolling in this time of Supernatural Harvest wherein we see many hundreds born again monthly and from areas where the gospel has been minimized.
Can you help? We can do so much more if we had increased funds. As Jesus taught us in the story of feeding the five thousand, as I saw in my vision, little is much when God is in it! Will you consider joining hands with us as we comb the fields looking for the Lost Sheep? Contact us today saying, “Yes! Ron and Shirley, I will join with you!" Our address is below and my personal email is ron@womf.org. It would be so great to hear from you today.
Come join us in a more dedicated manner; we need your help! Make up a team in your church or group of friends and come see us in Uganda soon; we love to host you!
In His Name,
Ron and Shirley DeVore
President and Founders
Pastor Steve and Cissy Mayanja
Pastor Scott and Brenda Volz
Pastor Stephen and Sarah Kaweesa
PO Box 23267
Federal Way, WA 98093
253.925.9562
www.womf.org
Feed His Lambs
Greetings to our Mission Partners,
Thank you one and all for your hand of love in this mission, helping to bring us to where we are today. I am sure without you we would be somewhere back a few miles but instead we are way ahead of anything we dreamed as younger missionaries 24 years ago when we finalized our plans to visit Uganda for the first time. Can you imagine at the age of 50 leaving for the mission fields?
Kneeling for prayer with Steve Mayanja, the bible school attendee from our own local school, Seattle Bible College, and Mama Shirley on that very electrifying day early into the time we had arrived, I had a visit from God; a real vision. In that vision I saw a few scenes from the story of the “feeding the five thousand,” I saw the baskets of food that were taken up by the twelve disciples and incredibly I saw each of the twelve baskets fill up and then take flight; right there before my eyes. Each basket had the name of a portion of ministry as a label on the side such as; “Schools”, “Churches”, “Crusades” and so on. I recognized God was showing me He could easily supply all of our needs even if what we started with was very small or even empty baskets.
Today I remember that word from Zechariah that says, “For who has despised the day of small beginnings?” I stand at awe at the mighty Hand of God.
Steve Mayanja, now known as Pastor Steve and the Chairman of my national board, and I, at that point in time could not fathom how anything of any size could grow from this small beginning to 120 churches in Uganda, plus more in Sudan, Kenya, and the Congo, etc. Plus the many schools we own and operate today in Uganda, Sudan and so forth. We stand in amazement even now after almost 24 years have gone by and so much is being done by His Grace and Mercy.
We little dreamed of the Bethany Baby House where we now have our first group of abandoned babies, ten in all. The second floor is now under construction where as soon as it is done we will be licensed for a total of fifty babies; we are excited! Pastor Dave Easterly together with his wife Darlene and the Sudan brethren, operate our Sudan operations, they have finished phase one of a beautiful school in our home village with over two hundred in attendance learning to know who and what Jesus is. Pastor Mike Vilumsons and his wife Becky operate our Prison Ministries with two full time teams and work in sixty prisons throughout the month. Around 400 prisoners are born again each month.
Pastor Brian Bandelman and wife Shelly together are the Directors of Youth and Child Affairs adding professionalism to these desperate areas of mission. Pastor Kyle Ashcroft and his wife Laura operate our Village for Orphans in the NE corner of the nation; they are caring for ten or more orphans with more coming as soon as we finish this wonderful ten-home village. The outside is complete with a playground for the kids and a church; this creates a very powerful statement for the greatness of God in this far flung place. Laura also has her own operation of hygiene care and medical care for the many people in the village who need such help desperately.
Finally, our own Pastor Scott and Brenda Volz, the Executive Director of the Mission as well as Brenda the Director of Adoption Operations, Rozena Erbes our Director of Hannah’s House for abused and forgotten women, and the work of Steve Mayanja as the Senior Pastor of our first church which now has around 1800 or more attendees, brings our focus back again to where I started this letter; despise not the day of small beginnings!
We started with a total of $450.00 per month total income for monthly support and have now grown to more than a million dollars a year income to the mission! This allows us to build, plant, and spread to other nations where in some cases we are reaching totally un-reached persons, such as in Bangladesh. It allows us to save children by providing them with an education and teaching them the love of Jesus, ordain graduates from our own two Bible Colleges, dedicate buildings, provide medical help, have crusades and keep on rolling in this time of Supernatural Harvest wherein we see many hundreds born again monthly and from areas where the gospel has been minimized.
Can you help? We can do so much more if we had increased funds. As Jesus taught us in the story of feeding the five thousand, as I saw in my vision, little is much when God is in it! Will you consider joining hands with us as we comb the fields looking for the Lost Sheep? Contact us today saying, “Yes! Ron and Shirley, I will join with you!" Our address is below and my personal email is ron@womf.org. It would be so great to hear from you today.
Come join us in a more dedicated manner; we need your help! Make up a team in your church or group of friends and come see us in Uganda soon; we love to host you!
In His Name,
Ron and Shirley DeVore
President and Founders
Pastor Steve and Cissy Mayanja
Pastor Scott and Brenda Volz
Pastor Stephen and Sarah Kaweesa
PO Box 23267
Federal Way, WA 98093
253.925.9562
www.womf.org
Feed His Lambs
We also feel led to ask you to help us with our wonderful orphan children; we are now raising about 520 orphans to live a good life and make a difference in the future of Uganda.
The problem is we need more sponsors to assist us in this great ministry of rescuing these forgotten and forsaken children under our banner ministry of Feed His Lambs.
For $35.00 per month we will raise the child we assign to you; we will provide them with a home, food, clothing and an education.
Please, can you help us make a difference?
Visit www.feedhislambs.org or contact the WOMF office at 253.925.9562 or by email: womf@womf.org
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The problem is we need more sponsors to assist us in this great ministry of rescuing these forgotten and forsaken children under our banner ministry of Feed His Lambs.
For $35.00 per month we will raise the child we assign to you; we will provide them with a home, food, clothing and an education.
Please, can you help us make a difference?
Visit www.feedhislambs.org or contact the WOMF office at 253.925.9562 or by email: womf@womf.org