Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

Matt and Crystal Kehn are our connection to the Juna Amagara ministry in Uganda.  They have been missionaries with Juna Amagara for six years – and before that Crystal served as part of our Sugar Grove campus (the only campus at that time!) alongside Mario and the student ministry team.

JAM focuses` primarily on caring for orphan children through high school age.  However, shortly after beginning with JAM, Matt saw a great opportunity to disciple high school graduates for six monhts prior to their entering college (similar to the one-year Nicolet Bible Institute program at Silver Birch Ranch).  He began this program several years ago and called it ABIDE (Amagara Bible Institute for Discipleship and Evangelism).  This program focuses on preparing young men to serve God in very intentional ways within their community and world.  They spend much time on studying God’s Word during the week and most weekends live it out by doing outreaches to schools throughout Uganda.

Today we celebrated with the 19 young men who were part of ABID for these past 6 month as they had a formal graduation ceremony.  It has been great to serve alongside the ABIDE guys a few weeks ago and to get to know them.  What a great group of young men.

Please be in prayer for these young men as they await acceptance into university – and then strive to find ways to come up with the resources to pay for it.   While university is inexpensive compared to our costs in the US, the $2,000 needed per year is far beyond the ability of most of these young men and their families.

And yes, if you’re interested in helping one of these young men attend university as he continues to prepare to serve God, you can certainly do that – you would be a HUGE blessing to him and to his community.  If you’re interested, please contact Pastor Keith for more information.