Ronnie & Stella Kakaire
Ronnie, Stella Kakaire, along with their children, Yesha and Migel
Ronnie and Stella are brand new Global Outreach International missionaries. They are 1 of 3 Ugandan families who are with GOI, our mission agency. What a blessing Ugandan’s are reaching Uganda for Christ! And Ekisinga gets to be a part of that through our partnership with them! Their message to the American church is to “send indigenous people to their own people’ and we could NOT agree MORE! That is precisely why we want to partner with them.
Ronnie and Stella have been married for 11 years. Their daughter is eight and their son is five. They founded Family Alter Ministry in 2007. “They have envisioned building strong families devoted to God. They’re passionate about discipling families into strength and faith whose foundation is Christ Jesus.” Ronnie is an accountant by training, and Stella homeschools their two children and runs a children’s discipleship club on the mainland. She is currently trying to open a library in Jinja city.
They plan to reach 33 islands on Lake Victoria —building families up and discipling pastors, young men, women, and children. At the end of each year, they hold a marriage retreat/camp for married couples. For those not legally married, they organize a mass wedding based on God’s design for marriages. They also put on youth discipleship camps, and family discipleship camps throughout the year. Their life’s passion is to strengthen broken families and root them in Truth.
Gideon & Joy NGOBI
Gideon and Dr. Joy live in Roseville, MN. Both were born in Uganda and immigrated to Minnesota in 1994. They have a passion for serving their Ugandan community by providing access to the written word, Bible stories, and other information in their indigenous languages. They want to encourage stewardship of the culture and facilitate the transmission of values through the written word.
Gideon and Dr. Joy are founders of a nonprofit called the Hope Institute of Uganda (https://hopeinstituteofuganda.org/ ) that partners with other nonprofits, churches, and community groups to improve outcomes for those at risk and most vulnerable. They have achieved excellent results over the past 20 years through medical missions, vocational training, and working with local artisans. They are looking for more ways to reach people where the need is the greatest now, through publishing and partnership with Ekisinga Publishing.