Our Vision
To see the Kingdom of God expand through the ministry
and teaching at Kibaale Community Primary School. Pastor Charles Kunya, School headmaster |
Our Mission
To see this little one and many others like him become all that God wants them to be in Christ and be given knowledge, wisdom and Spiritual teaching to become all they can be in this world and in God's Kingdom.
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Our Goal
To see the Kibaale Community Primary School meet the needs of the children in Kibaale by providing a loving, educational and Christ-centered experience at no cost to them or the community.
Ruth Mutesi, Kibaale School Advocate |
David and Martha Dobra, Mission Directors
We met in 2005 at a Camps Farthest Out event. ACFO is where you experience and learn about living in God's Kingdom here and now.
We were married in 2008 and began to travel and have met some wonderful people on our journey. In 2012 Martha and I met Ruth Mutesi and her father, Pastor Charles Kunya at the CFO International Camp in Lima, Peru. Ruth was in my prayer group. As we got to know and love her and Pastor Charles, I knew God had set up a divine appointment for us. Ruth, Martha and Pastor Charles attended the Training of Trainers before CFOI Camp where Martha met them and saw their passion for Jesus and their love for the children at the Kibaale School. I also saw this passion Ruth has for the school during prayer group with Ruth. The more we learned about the need the stronger our desire was to help the children and the school. After much prayer, listening and then hearing God say, “We have so much; they have so little” we began to support them with prayer and financial help. But God wants to bless others with the reward of giving into His Kingdom and that is why we started Kibaale Hope Inc to give awareness of the need and funds to support the school. Martha and I did go to Uganda to visit the school and Pastor Charles home and family in 2017. Thai was her first trip and my second. we have shared some of the pictures here on the website. Pastor Charles Kunya, founder of Kibaale Community Primary School
I am the senior Pastor of Kasozi Community Church and I am also the founder of Kibaale Community Primary School. I also opened up a branch church. I was born in 1948 raised up in a poor family of five children, 2 boys and 3 girls.
I am the last born. I got married in 1970 and I am blessed with three boys and three girls. I have eight grand children. EDUCATION: I COMPLETED primary school and I joined high school but dropped out of school due to lack of school fees in 1968. I was employed at Jinja in the Eastern part of Uganda. I lost that job in 1973 during the former president Late Idi Amin’s brutal regime after the expulsion of the Indians (Asians). The company where I was working collapsed, however it had a branch in Nairobi, Kenya, so I re-joined the work in Nairobi in 1974. SPIRITUAL LIFE CONVERSION: I Committed my life to Jesus Christ when I was in Nairobi Kenya , after hearing the Gospel of our Lord from the book of Romans 1:16. Since then I became a new creature in our Lord Jesus Christ. I joined the bible school in Nairobi from 1980 to 1981 on a part time basis and I was ordained as Pastor in 1983. However in November 1981 during president Obote’s regime I was invited to preach at Nsinze – Iganga, in Uganda . And during that time one of the local leaders was a Muslim so he hated the Christians. When I came with two brethren from Kenya. We preached for two days. On the third day we were arrested, taken to Iganga police station with the Pastor who invited us and detained for three days and then we were transferred to Kampala CID headquarters on interrogations that we were rebels from Kenya linked with Museni, the current President. By then he was a rebel. They forged a case that we were charged for recruiting people to join the rebels. We were tortured to the point of death. A miracle happened on the day we were to be killed. When the prison warden ordered us from our cell, as they forced us to make statements, all pens failed to work and we were taken back to the cells again. We continued preaching the gospel to prisoners up to the time we got out of prison, and by the time we got out of prison 174 prisoners had committed their lives to Jesus Christ. We were in prison for three months and four days. We lost shoes, money and watches. After coming out of prison, I went back to Kenya and resumed work at the factory. One day I heard the voice of the Lord telling me to resign and become a full time minister, but it was hard for me to resign, as there was no other way I could earn a living, but I had to obey God. Because It was a clear voice, there was no way I could give an excuse to God. I resigned from my job and became a Full time Pastor in 1984 up to today. I started the ministry in Kenya. Up to now the Pastor who took over is still running the ministry of the church and the children ministry. During the time I was in Kenya I faced many challenges. I was ministering in suburbs and slum area as the Bible tells us to begin in Jerusalem. In 1994 I heard God telling me to return back to my home land, Uganda. After praying about it I was convicted and believed God wanted me back home in Uganda. I informed the church member about going back to Uganda. I handed over to another Pastor who took over, the work of the church and the children ministry is still going on. I returned back home at my village in Uganda, a remote area far from the town deep in the village and found the situation of community at home was worse than in Kenya, where I was. Here most people were very poor; single mothers, many orphans, sick people, illiterate and drunkards. I asked God to direct me. There was no church in my village place. Churches were far from my place, so we began to fellowship inside my house. I began the church in my home in a small living room where we could fellowship and have services. The Mission was to reach the lost and help lift the standards of people by changing their morals and showing Jesus Christ as their saviour and hope. We began reaching people by visiting sick people, meeting their primary needs. We gave them soap, money, sugar and food and then shared with them about Jesus Christ and prayed for them to recover. We reached many people and the house became too small for us to fellowship in. We built a muddy thatched church which was bad looking, however it accommodated our need of more space for members. We fellowshipped in that building for many years. Most of the people who joined the church were very poor with many problems and they had children, some were single parents (widows) their husbands/wives had died due to aids, others were sick HIV positive (Aids) and some eventually died. All the people who joined the church had a hope that the church could meet their needs. In the church were many more children than elder people and most of the children were not going to school due to poverty. Some of the children were total orphans, parents died due to HIV Aids and were staying with the relatives. Some relatives were mistreating those children. I had a burden for them. It was a challenge to me for this young generation's future. I could not afford to care for the families. So I decided to show them Jesus Christ as their Saviour and hope and also to provide education for orphans and most needy families, but I had no money to take all of the children to school, as they were many. However, in 1999, by faith, I opened up Kibaale Community Primary School. I began with one class nursery (kindergarten) with 20 children and two teachers. The school now has around 400 students in grades K to 7. Pastor Charles Kunya |
Ruth Mutesi, School advocate and Secretary, daughter of Pastor Charles
I am a volunteer at Kibaale community primary school and Kasozi Community Church.
At the school I volunteer as a Secretary and other different activities. I don’t go to school daily but I fulfill my duties and give to the one responsible. At Church I volunteer as Sunday school teacher and choir on Sundays. I have a diploma in stenography and certificates of attendance in children work (Sunday school). I am single. A few years back I was working in one of the small banks in Uganda, but I was cut off with other workers. One day as I was praying I saw the vision of children but already I was a Sunday school teacher. By that time I was not volunteering at school, but I knew very well how my daddy was struggling with the school. Slowly, God began to show me how I could be useful to the school ministry. God promised to care for me. I began to have a burden for the school and our community. What amazes me, I volunteer in God's work and God cares for me. Though life has not been easy, I have seen God caring for my life, the school and for the church. This year I began to help my mother, volunteering in the women ministry at church. My aim is to share with the women how to plan for their children and families so that they may have food in their homes in the future, through growing food crops and rearing of local chicken and pigs at a very small scale. The women welcomed the idea and suggested to have a small project. Finally the women decided to begin with tomatoes, and we are about to begin and after getting the experience they will be growing and rearing at their homes and when it works out in the future we may reach other woman. I have also been part of CFO International as a trainer of leaders to camps in Africa. Pray for God to use and guide me in the school and community. Ruth Mutesi |