Uganda 2025

Bringing the Good News
to CHILDREN IN UGANDA

Monday, June 16—Update

The team has arrived safely! They settled into their hotel very early in the morning Uganda time.  Dan said they arrived at the hotel around 3am, so you can certainly pray for full strength and energy this first day especially because they leave the hotel at 8am to begin their morning.  Our team has joined others, so I believe there are around 24 people total.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday will be filled with school and home visits.  They begin each morning visiting about three of the poorest sponsored families’ homes to hear their stories, pray with them, and bring them some basic food and supplies.  Each afternoon they will visit each of the three schools that our sponsored children attend.  We have purchased lunch for ALL the children and staff at each school, as well as a larger gift that has been determined by the staff based on what they need most.  They will spend about 3 hours at the schools, presenting the same GOSPEL we do at Camp Motion, playing games, and encouraging the students and the staff.  

Monday night, the team will have a meal with the Ugandan Hands of Love staff and their families.  

Also Monday night, one young lady will begin preparing for her student visa interview. The interview is Wednesday at 7:30am Uganda time (11:30pm Tuesday Central time). Please pray for all of the preparation and coordination leading up to the interview, and then of course the interview itself.  Pray for this young lady, and for the courts and agencies to have miraculous favor, and for the emotions and practicalities that follow regardless of the outcome. 

Wednesday evening the team travels to a different hotel to be closer to camp, which begins on Thursday!  This is such an exciting experience for all the kids, pray the Lord’s presence will truly be known and felt during this time.  

Uganda is 8 hours ahead of us. We appreciate your continued prayers.

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 airfare, lodging, and meals. The Mission Team would very much appreciate any financial and prayer support. To donate, visit our Giving page, enter your gift amount and select “Mission to Uganda.” CLICK HERE.

In addition, the team will happily take letters to children from sponsoring families at Wellspring.

What will the Team be doing?

Once in Uganda, Wellspring will join other teams (a total of 25 people) from several other US churches. Over the nine days the team is on the ground in Uganda, we will have a full schedule, visiting three boarding schools that sponsored children attend. At each school, we 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 Wellspring-sponsored children. We will hear their stories, pray with them, ask them about their experience with our ministry, and bring them supplies (rice, beans, soap, salt, etc.).

The evenings will be spent having 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. Similar to a youth camp in the US, the students will enjoy  speakers, activities, food, worship, groups, prayer, fun, and baptisms in Lake Victoria.
We will then  take 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  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.