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Missionary Grandmother Joins the team

riverflowsdown — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:51:31 +0000

Missionary Grandmother Joins the team

Alma Jones has officially joined the House of Friends team. We have been working with Her in Uganda as she has hosted many of our teams and we have interacted for years. She has been a personal friend of mine “John Gross” for 15 years along with her adult children. Alma will be helping us develop a children’s teaching program for Abba House. She is already working with ABBA HOUSE DIRECTOR—RICHARD KAAYA.

Refired not Retired. She keeps going and going and Her life will inspire you.

Refired not Retired

Alma Jones hits the mission field in Her 70’s whats your excuse !!! I had just come back from my 2nd trip to Uganda and was sharing about the needs of the orphaned children. I noticed in the back of the church Alma Jones was emotionally moved. As soon as the service was over I checked with Alma to see what was going on. She explained that when She was 18 years old She felt the Lord calling Her to the same east African region that I had been to. In those days a single woman would not have found Her way through Bible college and then sent alone into such need. Life handed Her some curve balls and here She was at 72 thinking of what could have been. I reminded Her that God’s callings are sure. If God called Her then She is called Now.

She took that to be the word of the Lord and a short time later She was In Uganda. She went on Her first stay with Dave and Ruth Christian who spent about 1 year training christian leaders in Uganda. When Dave and Ruth returned home She stayed and has been there for around 4 years.

On a past trip I got to stay with Alma and see up close what the Lord is doing with Her. She has been teaching leaders how to study the Bible. While there we spent a lot of time with a young man in His teens who was actually pastoring a church due to the fact that the residing pastor had left in a hurry with big issues. No one was qualified to step into that position so this young man was chosen due to that fact that Alma had been mentoring Him. Here She is after Her ride broke down in the field and had to drive back in the back of a truck.

If you would like to help out financially and need a tax deduction you can do so with the information below. Also If you would like Alma to speak on the missions topic and encourage your group that God doesn’t retire you but refire you She’s your lady at 77 years young, contact below.

If you would like to join in the journey by helping Alma out financially, please make your checks payable to House of Friends, and send your donations to P O Box 228, Alma, MO 64001 along with a note for Alma Jones. All donations are tax deductible. If you would like more information call · 660-674-2222 or

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Abba House

riverflowsdown — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:04:24 +0000

ABBA HOUSE DIRECTOR—RICHARD KAAYA

I was born in 1960 and remained in Uganda during the Idi Amin era. I was born again in 1981 and after one year I felt the calling of God to ministry. Four years later I joined the Assemblies of God theological college in Nairobi, Kenya and received a B.A. in theology. I came back to Uganda in 1988 for pastoral ministry. In 1991 I married my wife, Debra, who was also from Uganda. In 1993 we pioneered a church in Entebbe. We were challenged by the great need of the poor and underprivileged children. Many of the children were not in school because their parents had died from AIDS or from the war.
Debra had worked with an orphanage and had also toured with the African Children’s Choir, which gave her wisdom and insight for what was ahead of us. Debra and I have five children of our own and twelve more that we have adopted as our own.

We have worked with Richard and Debra for years and through our relationship we are partnering to birth Abba House. At this time we are caring for 35 orphans.

If you would like to join in the journey by helping out financially, please make your checks payable to House of Friends, and send your donations to P O Box 228, Alma, MO 64001. All donations are tax deductible. If you would like more information call · 660-674-2222 or

Email: info@houseoffriends.org web page: · http://www.houseoffriends.org/

House of Friends

riverflowsdown — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:56:21 +0000

MISSION STATEMENT

House of Friends is an international nonprofit Christian mission organization releasing God’s heart of compassion through the discipleship of nations by caring for widows, orphans and the destitute around the world and equipping them physically and spiritually to reach their potential and destiny in God’s family to do the works of the Kingdom.

VISION STATEMENT

Our vision is to be a community of friends, knit together by love for Jesus and for one another, while allowing Him to live out His heart of compassion through us, both at home and abroad.

We desire to release God’s heart through the discipleship of nations, by caring for widows and orphans, and operating in a lifestyle of night and day prayer.

The vision is also for the friends of Jesus (John 15:15 “…but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”) to join in this journey in doing the works of the Kingdom with hands-on mission work, financial assistance, and prayer.

GOALS STATEMENT

In the journey of the mission abroad, our goal is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ in three distinct paths back to Jerusalem-Silk Road from Asia, Nile River/Rift Valley from Africa, and Spanish/Columbus path from the Americas. Recognizing the Jewish ‘thread’ in what we are doing, having a heart for Israel and the Jewish people, we know that God is not finished with His covenant people.

Our goal is to also establish Abba House, a children’s home model, in villages along the routes of the journey abroad. Abba House will consist of homes in community, ideally with 1 widow and 12 orphans. At their locations, there will be a food COOP/food distribution, medical care, well projects, primary and secondary education, adoptions, trade school, Bible college, missions base, evangelistic outreaches, church planting, rural training and the printing of Gospel material.

In the United States, our goal is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Indian Reservations, inner city peoples, and other areas as determined by the board, ministering through outreach projects.

The mission will be accomplished through the development and workings of a mission training school, administrative center, prayer center, mission store, food COOP, and the printing/distributing of Gospel material.

Through these means we will effect physical and spiritual change in the poor of the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Kingdom of God will then be expanded with new disciples, equipped to be productive citizens of society and the Kingdom. The new disciples will then duplicate the expansion of the Kingdom as they begin to do the works of the Kingdom.

House of Friends P. O Box 228 · Alma, Missouri 64001 · 660.674.2222

Visit our web page : www://houseoffriends.org