Healing Heart Outreach

Healing Heart Outreach Ministry (HHOM) was established in 2015. One of its purposes was and continues to be to reach out to and help vulnerable children in crisis situations both within our local communities and abroad. We do this by supporting ministries who need help in meeting the needs of such, i.e. orphans, street children, victims of exploitation and abuse, and those rescued from sex and labor trafficking. For the first five years two organizations we supported to accomplish our purpose were Covenant House and Samaritan’s Purse. However, since 2020 we began supporting a ministry in Uganda (Healed Hearts Foundation - HHF) and have continued since then. For more information about their outreach work and involvement in communities visit their website healedheartsfoundation.org 

In 2020 during the covid crisis and all by God’s grace we were able to link up with Annah (Our Grace Radio ambassador in Uganda) who shared a heart compassion as our ministry. Starting off with about 100 children we gave and since then have continued to give her team as much financial support as possible to help feed and provide housing and medical care for these children. Death rates through starvation have kept dropping since then. In order for their work to operate legally they had to register as an official entity. We were able to help them found and register Healed Hearts Foundation (HHF) in the city of Mbarara Uganda January of 2021, and also set up a website. This ministry has limited avenues to accessing funds, has limited resources, and is catering for so many street children and orphans, many of whom are let out to the streets as young children to fend for themselves. Initially for $100,00 a month we helped them rent two rooms, one for the younger children ages 3-10 years and the other ages 11-15 years. Each room accommodates 30  children. The older ones continue to sleep on the streets. In September of 2024 the ministry had access to two more rooms which was a great need since the number of children needing help rose to 200 over the four years of its establishment. We have been able to help pay for major medical surgeries, dental, and other medical needs. 

Right now we are able to help provide one meal a day for 3 weeks in the month. Our goal is to raise more money to provide one meal for a month. They use the food money to buy firewood, beans and corn meal. While food from the garbage bins is their main source of provision, many a time they don’t find any thrown away scraps to feed on. Unfortunately too, many of the older ones have taken to inhaling fuel (jet engine fuel) in order to take away their hunger pains and craving for food. Sadly too, because they are exposed out in the streets many are being sodomized. We want to continue to be as much a support to this ministry’s work as possible as the Lord asks of us.

Matthew 25:34-40 nkjv

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’