ABOUT US

In 2003, Uganda and the Sudan were experiencing an out of control AIDS epidemic. Children were being kidnapped to serve in the rebel army, as well as being raped, abused, and some were forced to watch their families murdered. Many children died from AIDS or war, and the havoc caused by lawlessness in the land was bringing horrific results.  At the same time, early in 2003, a very compelling message was shared at a Promise Keepers Clergy event, challenging churches from the US to form “sister church relationships” with churches in Africa. A call to respond to these needs went out to pastors at this PK event, challenging churches in the Western world, that we could “no longer sit back and ignore these atrocities.”  Read more here and sponsor a child here.

 

Two pastors were moved in their hearts and agreed that they had to do something. Pastor Mark Schmutz and Pastor Brian Strom decided that they would travel to Uganda before the year’s end. In March of 2003, Mark and Brian met Ugandan pastors, Ephraim and Jova Tumusiime at a leadership conference in Maryland. After sharing their hearts with these Ugandan church planters, it was decided that an exploratory trip would take place in October 2003. That first mission team gave birth to the DOVE Uganda Children’s Fund, which now sponsors more than 370 children from multiple congregations in the USA and New Zealand.

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In the summer of 2006, DUCF became organized as a 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization. The goal of DUCF is to partner with the local church of Uganda through child sponsorship, to restore hope to this war-ravaged country, one child at a time.

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