Trust in the Lord...



Sanctuary Of Grace Christian Academy opened its doors in Feb. 2007 with a group of 100 children ranging in age from 5 to 10 years old. We began to develop a Christian curriculum that uses the content of the Ugandan minimum requirements for education.

The Lord opened the door for another ministry to partner with us for sponsoring the children. Later we were also joined in partnership to Childcare International, a child sponsorship organization from Canada.

Over the last 9 years, the Roots to Fruits Christian curriculum was developed from  4 yr old preschool up to P2, And P3-P7 is well underway to completion. The school reached its P7 level and SoGCA became a model school For Christian Education.

The school is fully registered in Uganda and is a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), as well as the northern regional model for ACSI.

The Curriculum is now being piloted in many schools in the country.
The Staff of SoGCA are strong in the Lord and united in the service of building a Biblical worldview in the children through example and teaching God’s word and the curriculum with a Biblical perspective throughout.

In 2015 we received notice that the Lord was directing the first ministry partner to pull out of Ugandan and transfer their sponsorship program to the more needy area of South Sudan where this ministry is located. We are so grateful for the 9 years of sponsorship we have had with them. This sponsorship covered about 75% of the funding for SoGCA. We notified the parents of the change and sought to help them through some income generating projects and other ways of funding the school. But there is still a need for the families to pay some school fees.

The meetings that were called for the parents to come and discuss the future were poorly attended and no solutions were found other than to pay the school fees necessary to continue the operation of the school. The leadership team, the directors of SoGCA and the BOD of Our Call Missions have committed this to the Lord and are seeking guidance for the future of the school. After much prayer and fasting we are totally trusting the Lord.

As the 2016 year started Uganda experience a delay in the school openings due to the Presidential election and the anticipated disturbances that may accompany the results. Then at the start of the school year, we have not received enough children nor have the families paid their fees.

So the leadership team of SoGCA, the directors and the BOD of Our Call Missions the covering NGO are left with the recourse that we must now close the school.  We mourn this situation and do not always understand the Lord’s decisions, but we trust that He has a plan. Please pray with us as we wait for Him to direct our next steps.

The Educator Development Center is still in operation and the first Educators are now serving the village Learning Centers in two villages.
We have also been invited to join the work of curriculum development and teacher training at a secondary school called Amazima School in Jinja.

The Roots to Fruits Christian Curriculum is now being piloted in three Watoto Schools and the Oasis of Hope in Kampala and one in Gulu, Restoration Gateway in Karuma, and Abaana’s Hope in Gulu. We recently visited the Watoto schools and found that they are faithfully using the curriculum with very good results.

We invite you to join us in praise and prayer as we celebrate the Lord and His love for us. We praise His grace in using us to help the children of Uganda develop a Biblical worldview as well as train and disciple teachers.

Join us in asking Him to give us wisdom as we continue the development of the Primary and secondary curriculum.

Even as we mourn the closing of the Sanctuary of Grace, we truly believe that the Lord is not finished with those children. They are unique and blessed and so many of them are now born into His Kingdom. We pray for them daily.

Isa. 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.


Keith and Lisa Coggin
Directors-OCM



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