Bringing the Good News
to CHILDREN IN UGANDA

Mission Trip to Uganda 2025

A team commissioned by Wellspring Family Church will leave St. Louis on Saturday, June 14, and will return on Wednesday, June 25. The team of eight includes Dan Rauch, Abby Rauch, Mike Glunt, Missy Glunt, Anna Minner, David Priest, Tobi Usrey, and Josh Bancroft. 

How I support this Team?

Our Team needs to raise $3500 per person to cover air fare and lodging and meals. The Mission Team would very much appreciate any financial and prayer support we can get. To donate, visit our Giving page, enter your gift amount and select “Mission to Uganda.” CLICK HERE.

The team will happily take letters to children from sponsoring families at Wellspring. 

What will the Team be doing?

Once in Uganda, our team will join other teams (total of 25 people) from several other US churches. Over the 9 days the team is on the ground in Uganda, they will have a very full schedule. The team will visit three boarding schools that sponsored children attend. At each school, the team will provide and serve a meal, engage in an activity that includes a presentation of the gospel, and bless them with a gift that will benefit the students in some way. 

The team will also visit the families of 10 sponsored children, hear their stories, pray with them, ask them about their experience with our ministry, and bring them supplies (rice, beans, soap, salt, etc).

In the evenings the team will have meetings with the Ugandan Staff and the Board in Uganda.

Summer Camp

The team will serve at a summer camp for all the students in the program. The program will be similar to a youth camp in the US with speakers, activities, food, worship, groups, prayer, fun, and baptisms (in Lake Victoria). 
We will be taking the ferry to an island where we will bring supplies to a remote fishing village as a community outreach associated with our ministry partner, the Lela Initiative.

Opportunity for one young lady

While the team is in Uganda, one student will have the opportunity to go to a student visa interview at the US embassy in Kampala on June 18th. We would also appreciate prayers that the interview would go well and she would be permitted to travel to the US as a student and live with a family here. 

At Hands of Love Uganda, we rescue abandoned babies and children left to fend for themselves in the streets and bush of Uganda. Through our child sponsorship program, we meet basic needs, educate through graduation, and share the love of God. Within our two orphanages, more than 2,500 children are being nurtured and encouraged in a safe environment. These children are the hope of the future as they grow into the men and women God created them to be, with the potential to effect real change in their families, businesses, communities, and nation.

We also support a team of partners that equip Ugandan individuals through a variety of programs, enabling them to advance Christ’s kingdom. We join our partners by extending their reach with shared visions of providing relief, hope, and a future for some of the most vulnerable children on earth as well as educating and empowering Ugandans to cause transformation.

If you are interested in giving, visit our homepage “GIVE UGANDA” or click here to give.