The Father's Love in Action

Purpose

Isaiah 61: 1 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because  the Lord has annointed me to bring good news to the poor.  He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and freedom to the prisoners.

Parental Care Ministries exists to help poor and orphaned children of Uganda by meeting their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs in the context of Christian schools. We also equip 40+ pastors to spread the Gospel throughout Uganda.

PCM Motto and The Future

Parental Care Ministries has 3 goals to fulfill the work that God has called us to do:

P is for Provider.  We are to provide for people whom God loves both spiritually and physically. 

• Isaiah 58:7  "God says share your bread with the hungry."

C is for Comforter. Our goal is to comfort and encourage God's children.

• 2 Cor 1:3-4 states for "For I am the Father who comforts you in all your afflictions."  We are called to come alongside those around the world who need comfort, encouragement, and edification.  We are to build up the Body of Christ.

M is for Must Proclaim. We must proclaim the Good News. 

• Mark 13:10 states "and the Good News must be proclaimed to all the nations." We desire to share the Good News that Jesus saves, heals and delivers.

We look forward to fulfilling these goals wherever the Lord leads us in our future ministry efforts. We see our mission as to meet the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of  God's children in order that they may be equipped to carry the "Good News" throughout the world.

Staff

We have many staff in Uganda headed up by Pastor Emmanuel Nnyanzi and his wife Sarah.  They are affectionately known as Superdad and Supermom.

Our staff in the US is made up of four staff members and a large army of volunteers who give passionately to further the ministry among our Ugandan friends.

Pictured from left to right:

  Justin Hayes         Director of Ministry Operations

  Christie Hayes       Child Sponsorship Coordinator

  Monica Barret       Director

  Mark Barret MD     Executive Director

History

The Past

The Lord's timing and ways are perfect. In 2004 the Barret family traveled to Saltillo Mexico and God began to give us hearts of compassion for the poor and lost. The last day we were leaving Saltillo many tears were shed because we were so overwhelmed with God's love for these humble, precious people.  Two years later as Christmas 2006 approached, our youngest daughter Libby (age 8 at the time) gave Monica and I a Christmas card that she had written at school. It stated, "Dear Mom, I feel this Christmas we should be missionaries and help the poor.  Jesus keeps pushing me to tell you.  Merry Christmas!" From this little one being sensitive to the Lord, God opened up clearly His will for Monica to go to Mozambique Africa.  The Lord quickly led Monica to feel this was for His good purposes. It was a little over a month later that Monica was in the sky headed for Mozambique Africa, one of the poorest nations in the world. The Lord opened every door - visa, shots, applications, packing for two weeks, and care for our children. All the while He also was giving us great peace and excitement in our hearts for this new opportunity He was opening up to us. Those 2 weeks in Africa in February of 2007 were powerful and life changing, for all 4 of us. Monica was able to visit two orphanages under the care of Iris Ministries in Pemba and then Maputo.  Monica and the team loved, prayed and worshipped with these orphans and widows.  The Word says God will not leave us orphans - He will come to us!  The Spirit of the Lord there was so mighty and so beautiful and those children just drink Him in and rest in Jesus' arms!  The highlight of the trip for the whole team was the privilege of meeting Pastor Emmanuel Nnyanzi from Uganda.  Emmanuel quickly became a dear friend and his love, compassion and inner strength are evidence in his wonderful connection to the vine - JESUS!

We continued our relationship with Pastor Emmy as time went forward.  We were unsuccessful in obtaining a visa for him to visit us in America so we made plans in the fall of 2007 to visit him in March of 2008.  Our entire family left on March 6, 2008 for a 10 day trip to Uganda.  There our lives would be forever changed ……experiencing these 120 orphans up close and personal.  We were moved by their faithfulness, their joy and their genuine love for our Lord Jesus.  We traveled and preached at some of the rural churches and knew that the Lord was asking us to do a great work for Him.   We returned home motivated to make a difference in this world.  In May of  2008, Parental Care Ministries USA, a nonprofit corporation  was established to spread the Father's love wherever He leads.

The Present

The work has just begun with Parental Care Ministries USA, yet the Lord has accomplished much in a short time.  The effort in Parental Care School Mbarara Uganda, our first area of focus, has brought many improvements to the quality of life for this group of orphans and their staff of employees.  Our accomplishments in 2008 included a new 16 passenger van for the ministry, dormitories for the orphans, new classrooms for the school, a uniform for every orphan, school desks, and teaching bibles for the teachers and pastors.  An even big blessing was a private donation for a13 acre banana plantation to help provide about 1/3 of the monthly food budget for the orphans.  We have started an orphan sponsorship program and currently have 400+ children sponsored at $35 a month. 1/3 of our children are true orphans, 1/3 are economic orphans and 1/3 are children of our 45 rural pastors.   The monthly funds help cover food, shelter, security and teacher salaries for all the children  In February of 2009 we drilled our first well on site which provides clean water to hundreds of children each day.   In December of 2009 we raised funds for a dump truck for construction purposes and for preaching with a new sound system deep in the villages of Uganda.  In May of 2010 we acquired a new land of 68 acres in the most beautiful area of Ugandan countryside  and we have started development there. A tilapia farm has been dug, as well as a 12 acre PCM farm which is growing beans and corn for our children. We plan to open our senior school here at Katyazo in January of 2012.

Our other focus arm of the ministry is working with Pastor Emmy's 45+ rural Ugandan pastors.  We try to gather them from all over Uganda at least twice a year for conferences. We are assisting them with resources to help equip their churches to minister to local people. We have started a program called Cows for the Kingdom where pastors are given a cow to milk to provide for their family and sell the excess milk for a daily profit of a few dollars a day.  Nearly 2/3 of all our pastors have a cow now.  Pastors are also provided a bicycle which they use effectively sharing God's Word wherever they go.

The other focus of work regarding the pastors is the School of Ezra that Pastor Emmy and Reuben direct.  Here they teach these young pastors many Biblical truths and motivate them to share God's Word with the reached and unreached in their particular areas.  The school of Ezra currently meets at Mbarara Parental Care School when the children are on holiday.