My Father’s House is a non-profit, mission-based ministry founded by Rebecca Sorensen

under the covering of The Branches of Life Corporation.

100% of all donations made from this website go directly to My Father’s House and their Uganda, Africa missions.

All donations are tax deductible unless otherwise noted.

 

Royal Hope Academy

I’ve always had a dream to help children and people living in poverty around the world.  As a singer/songwriter, I began doing small fundraisers through concerts in order to help various organizations such as Feed the Children®, Compassion International and local feeding programs.  In July 2007, my dream finally came to pass to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations when I was blessed to travel to Kenya and Uganda!  I was immediately captivated and fell in love with the people and the culture of Uganda.  During my first visit, I ended up in a recording studio singing songs in Uganda’s local language, Luganda.  I also began to see one of the deepest needs in this country was education.  Everywhere I went through the nation, the primary request of children was for school fees, backpacks, and knowledge, though they obviously had many other basic needs - such as food, clothing and certainly shelter… and love.

In 2007, I returned to Uganda and led a small team from my church in Franklin, Tennessee, Grace Center.  The team was blessed to be able to take 15 suitcases full of school supplies, backpacks, shoes, clothing and toys for the children, which were distributed in IDP camps, slums, schools, and village churches.  After the team left, I stayed in Africa for six months and also traveled to Mozambique and Sierra Leone.  Through my journey I encountered desperate situation after desperate situation of death, poverty, hunger and homelessness.  During my stay, I had a powerful encounter with the Spirit of God in which I was commissioned by the Father to walk and war in His love and asked by Him to bring His Lost Children home!  I knew I was being called to be a rescuer of orphans, at-risk children, and children in extreme bondage.  The Holy Spirit birthed in my heart a vision to have a children’s village in which children would have a church, a school, a medical clinic, and be put into small group homes with parents who would adopt them and raise them as their own.

I was lead to reject the traditional model of an efficient institutional orphanage and embraced a model that was more costly but would give children the true love, affection and attention they so desperately need.

 

Following this extended stay in Africa, I returned to the US with a burning desire to continue pursuing this vision.  A door of opportunity opened to me in which I was asked by local  Ugandans to partner in order to build and open a school for orphaned children in the heart of a slum area in Busega, Kampala, Uganda.  In January and February of 2009, I traveled to Uganda with a vision and a dream.  With the help of my Ugandan friends, the dream became a reality.  Our team built and opened a school we have named Royal Hope Academy.  The name was based on Scriptures and revelation that these children are not orphans but adopted by the Heavenly Father, the King of Kings, and are truly royal princes and princesses!  Hope was given to the name based on Jeremiah 29:11 which says,

 

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

 

On February 9, 2009, Royal Hope Academy had its grand opening!  It began with 60 children, 3 teachers, and  2 staff members assigned to overseeing the school’s operations.  Only 2 months later, the school had grown to 130 children, 7 teachers, and 4 staff members!

 

During this trip, I also recorded a project of songs in the local language and was blessed to have a life-long dream fulfilled of singing with African children.  I am using this project as a gift to supporters for the school, as well as selling unique magazine paper bead necklaces to finance the school as well.

 

Following my trip to open the school, the Lord prompted me to start a non-profit ministry called My Father’s House International, in order to help the process of seeing the vision of the children’s village come to pass.

 

I continue to believe God for my vision of a children’s village that will be added to the work of the school.  The Lord has continuously provided the funds to operate the school and I know He will bring the entire vision to pass.

 

If you would like to partner with us, co-laboring with us, to bring His lost children home, or sponsor a child, please visit our Getting Involved page today!

 

May God Bless You!

 

Rebecca Sorensen

The Students of Royal Hope Academy

 Kampala, Uganda, Africa

 

Royal Hope Academy

 

My Father’s House                  rebecca@myfathershouseintl.org

 

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