Hidden in the savanna’s of the West Nile area of northern Uganda, the community of Kwio Akuru is 11 hours by car from the national airport in Entebbe. Prior to my first visit in July of 2022, they had never been visited by Muzungus (caucasians). It presented the perfect opportunity to share the Gospel among the Alur speaking people in the region.

The Honorable Dr. Betty Udongo took us to her ancestral village of Kwio Akuru, where we worshipped with the local community. During our 3 hours there, our missionary team witnessed healings in Jesus’ name. Two deaf people got their hearing restored. Three people with malaria reported their fever broke after prayer alone. Two people were delivered in Jesus’ name from demonic oppression. There is still power in the name of Jesus. As a physician, to see such healings in person was astounding and encouraging. Only to God be the Glory!

Six weeks after my first trip to Uganda I could not get Kwio Akuru out of my mind. I called Dr. Betty and asked what the community needed. Covid lockdown had shut the Parents’ Teacher School for 2 years. No one was able or willing to reopen it. On September 9th of 2022 we opened a new school that I named “Precious Beloved Children Christian School.” Here is Auntie Betty with our first students on opening day.

In December of 2022 we held a medical camp in Kwio Akuru with 6 medical students and their Dean, Dr. Gerald Tumusiime, from Uganda Christian University in Kampala. Over 500 people were treated in 3 days and Dr. Gerald performed 3 surgeries.

George Pifoch played a vital role during the medical camp in December of 2022. He has come back to Kwio Akuru twice a year to provide free medical care to the students at PBC Christian School. I have partnered with him and his wife to build the “Gift of God School of Nursing and Midwifery,” a Christ centered nursing school on our 3.2 acres in Nebbi, to reduce the rates of maternal and infant mortality in a tri-state area where access to healthcare is severely lacking.

Here is faithful “Dr. George” treating students at PBC under the nunga trees before we constructed our first 2 school buildings.

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In March of 2024 we drilled a 270 foot deep well. Women no longer have to walk 6 miles to the Nile River and back, carrying 5 gallons of water on their heads. People are also no longer dying from water borne diseases and hippo attacks at the river. One teacher tragically lost 2 of his sons at the Nile a few years back due to hippos.

Our solar powered well provides tasty clean water at an affordable price to the school and community.

Dr. George’s wife, a nurse midwife, is educating the older girls about female hygiene and health issues in our steel framed classrooms at PBC.

In September of 2025 several people of the Kwio Akuru community started worshipping under this nunga tree. The congregation has taken the name True Life Bible Church East Africa and follows the model of Dr. Vrielink’s sending church in Wyoming, Michigan. In May of 2026 they planted their first daughter church in Ajibu. Preparations are underway for another church plant in Kiweeka in December of 2026.