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Welcome to Avad Ministries


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Our Mission


Avad Ministries exists to bring the life-changing hope of the gospel to children and families in vulnerable communities. Through compassionate, community-based outreach, we meet both spiritual and practical needs, ensuring that every child and family has access to care, encouragement, and guidance. Our programs help children experience God’s love through Bible teaching, worship, and discipleship, while families receive support that strengthens faith, restores dignity, and equips them to thrive. By combining spiritual nourishment with practical assistance—such as food, educational resources, and mentorship—Avad Ministries transforms lives, strengthens communities, and nurtures a generation rooted in hope, faith, and purpose.


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Why This Work Matters


 Many churches and families face challenges in teaching biblical truths due to limited resources and support.


Challenges we help address include:

  • Limited training and resources for pastors and ministry leaders

  • Financial hardship that prevents access to programs or teaching materials

  • Lack of teaching materials, books, and digital resources

  • High costs of meeting spaces and program implementation

  • Shortage of volunteers to guide children and youth

By providing a safe space, practical resources, and spiritual guidance, the community center helps children grow in faith, equips leaders, and strengthens families and communities for the long term.

Taking children's Programs to rural areas



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Children playing and holding hands with adults under a tent during a community event in a rural setting.

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Empowering Communities Through Faith

 

Avad Ministries’ community outreach brings children and families together in a safe, joyful, and faith-filled environment. During these visits, we provide nourishing meals and snacks while sharing the message of Christ through Bible stories, songs, and lessons. Children engage in games, activities, and fellowship that not only bring joy and fun but also build a sense of community and belonging. Through these programs, families experience hope, encouragement, and the love of God in practical and spiritual ways, reinforcing the ministry’s mission to nurture faith and transform lives.





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THE COMMUNITY CENTER

A Place of Hope

At the heart of this mission is Avad’s community center in Matugga, just north of Kampala, Uganda. More than a building, the center is a place of hope—a safe and welcoming hub where individuals and families gather to learn, grow, worship, and support one another. It also serves as a lending library of Christian teaching resources, equipping churches and community leaders to reach children with God’s Word.

Our programs include:


  • Vacation Bible School: Fun and engaging Bible lessons, songs, and activities for children.

  • Children and Youth Ministries: Discipleship, mentoring, and faith-building activities.

  • Women's Ministries: Support, connection and practical assistance for vulnerable women.

  • Community Library: Access to Christian books, curriculum, and teaching resources for children and leaders.

  • Computer Training Classes: Practical digital skills training for children and community members to support education and ministry work.

  • Children’s Ministry and Leadership Training: Virtual resources, teaching, and training for children and ministry leaders.

  • Community Outreach: We are committed to meeting both spiritual and practical needs in our communities through intentional, Christ-centered engagement.

  • Skills Training: Book making, Hairdressing, Soap Making and others being added all the time.





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Group of people, including children and adults, gathered outside a rustic building in a lush rural setting.
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What God is doing



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“I’m Pastor Steven, the pastor of New Hope Church in Matugga. It is a blessing to be in this place. I want to thank God for the ministry of Avad. It is such a great opportunity to have Avad in Matugga and also in Uganda. I have loved the heart and the passion behind this Avad Ministry.

Much more so in the young generations, where we have learned—or the teachers have explained to us—that the foundation of the Christian life starts in the children’s ministry.

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“Praise God I’m from Gloria City church pastored by Pastor Henry, I am so much pleased to be in this place and I thank God for Avad because you are coming to love children and to offer this place for us teachers to come and interact and to come and have lessons here. Praise be to God"


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“We are much humbled. Glory be to God. Thank you so much for loving Uganda and blessed be Avad’s Children Ministries."


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It is such a blessing to have this Avad Ministry and this place here, and I have loved the programs on Saturdays, where we get the children from the communities. They come here, they fellowship, get some books, and do some studies.

It is a blessing to be part of this, and honestly, I’m touched and I’m blessed. I want to thank God for this Avad Ministry in this particular season and give us purpose to have it here. God bless you.

I’m Pastor Steven.

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“Thank you! We are so grateful because you have truly done a great work. We are very happy, and our children are happy. You have done a good work in us. We thank God for your lives and for the ministry God has placed on your lives. We are very, very happy.

May God bless you.”

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“My name is Acea, and I am so grateful to God for this ministry. It has blessed us greatly. The children have been blessed; they have never had this opportunity before in this village. We really thank God for this wonderful opportunity.



Our Leadership Team



Canadian Leadership

Paula van Donkersgoed
Paula van Donkersgoed
Michelle Allen
Michelle Allen
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Ugandan Team

Mary Rita Kiyingi
Mary Rita Kiyingi
John Byron Wasajja
John Byron Wasajja
John Henry Kalule
John Henry Kalule
Rosemary Wotali
Rosemary Wotali
Erenest Grace Katabira
Erenest Grace Katabira
Rapha Jemimah Kusanyusa
Rapha Jemimah Kusanyusa
Evelyn Kisakye
Evelyn Kisakye
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