Never Enough

by Bucky Rogers

Founder of Benjamin House Ministries

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Sponsored children in Nangabo receiving school supplies for the new term

As I’m sitting here, coordinating our sponsored kids going back to school, signing those checks, double checking the lists, and praying over the names, I am both excited and frustrated.  For these, now over 300, kids, this week has meant going back to school with excitement and hope.  But if I were to look to my right or left right now, at this very moment, I could count another dozen who will not be getting that opportunity.

I am tempted, honestly, for us to set a goal of how many kids we want in sponsorship, how many transitional homes we want to complete, how many schools and churches we will one day build, how many pastors we desire to train, and how many families we see graduate from our program because they are now self-sufficient…but I can’t.  When I ask myself the question of how many is enough, I can’t answer my own question.  Why?  Because it’s never going to be enough.

We recently launched our third sponsorship region: Nangabo.  So, now we have Katanga (the slum downtown), Ntinda (caring mostly for kids of families who are low wage earners on the outskirts of the city), and Nangabo.  Nangabo is the area where Julie, our family, and I live.  It’s far from the city and very much a village context.  Some of these families have no power and walk very far to fetch water to boil for drinking each day.  School is the farthest thing from some of their minds because income is next to impossible. Until…you.  Because our BHM supporters are so incredible and we continue to see growth in both our ministry giving and our sponsorships, we have been able to bring hope into this village.

Naomi, BHM Sponsorship Director, interviews a mother in Nangabo about her son's sponsorship

Excitement is building as more and more kids and families are being affected by sponsorship in Nangabo. And we have you to thank for that. Thank you for continuing to sacrifice to see that these kids get a chance at a future and the hope of the Gospel.

We will stop when we know we have done enough.  But it’s never going to be enough this side of heaven.

​Thanks for digging in and standing with us!



Bucky and Julie

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