Partners’ Progress Newsletters

July 2023

  • Orphans Growing Up to Fulfill Big Dreams

End of May 2023

  • From Rising Waters to Soaring Melodies
  • Latest from Lukaya
  • Sustainability
  • Book Review
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun – did you know?

March 2023

  • Strong African Women
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • International Women’s Day
  • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun – did you know?

End of January

  • Love from Lukaya
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Bearing Fruit
    • Celebrations and Back to School
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun – did you know?

End of December


November 2022

  • Gratitude
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Ebola Outbreak
    • Fundraising/Needs
    • Gift Bags
  • Thank You! Video (click here)
  • Just for fun – did you know?

End of October, 2022

  • Mustard Seed’s Mr. Rogers
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Celebration of Candidates (Graduates)
    • Dedication of Ted’s House
  • Practical Education
  • Sustainability
  • Book Review-“Queen of Katwe”
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun – did you know?

October 2, 2022


September 1, 2022

  • Looking Up
  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Reviews
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

July 14, 2022

  • Resilience
  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

June 9, 2022

  • Greener, Cleaner, Healthier
  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

Spring 2022


February 28, 2022

  • February Thanksgiving
  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

January 30, 2022

  • School’s Open
  • Back to School
  • Latest from Lukaya
    • Sustainability
    • What’s Up?
    • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

January 6, 2022 (4 of 4)

  • Happy New Year
  • Latest from Lukaya
  • You Did It!

December 31, 2021 (3 of 4)

  • Happy New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2021 (2 of 4)

  • Happy New Year’s Eve Day
  • Latest from Lukaya
    • Sustainability
      • Poultry
      • High Mountain Dining Terrace
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun

December 28, 2021 (1 of 4)

  • A Great Christmas
  • Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

November 2021

  • Gratitude
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
    • Are schools opening?
      • reopening the week of January third
    • New curriculum
      • hands-on approach
    • Communicating with students and teachers?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun
    • More than once, I gave someone visiting me ‘a push.’ What did I do?

September 2021

  • Alive and grateful
  • School reopening delayed again
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Sustainability
      • Poultry
      • Fish
  • What’s Up?
    • Travel?
    • Mustard Seed Christmas
    • Partners’ Progress newsletters now on RPU website
    • Communicating with students and teachers?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun
    • Last month, our ‘Ugandanese’ question was: What’s a breakfast escort?

August 2021

  • Making the Best of It
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Sustainability
      • Poultry
  • What’s Up?
    • Travel?
    • Communicating with students and teachers?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun
    • Last month, our ‘Ugandanese’ word was posho.

July 25, 2021

  • Time to Celebrate
    • Mustard Seed Seventh-graders Triumphed!

July 8, 2021

  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Sustainability Initiatives
    • Eggs!
  • Can You Help?
  • Just for fun
    • Last month, our ‘Ugandanese’ word was boda-boda.
  • Thank you for loving us (Video)

Spring 2021

  • Mustard Seed Academy Reopens
  • Covid Update
  • Sustainability
    • Poultry hens a laying
  • Greetings

May 4, 2021

  • More classes return to school
  • EGGS! 63 trays each day!
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You, Elaine
  • Just for fun– did you know?
  • Covid 19 Update


March 25, 2021

  • Thank You for Loving us
  • The Latest from Lukaya
  • Nursery School
  • Thank You!
  • What’s Up?
  • Just for fun– did you know?


February 13, 2021

  • Love from Lukaya
  • The Latest from Lukaya
    • Education
    • Health
    • Sustainability
  • What’s Up?
  • Thank You!
  • Just for fun– did you know?

January 4, 2021

  • Happy New Year

December 29, 2020 

  • Send Linda to Mustard Seed Academy

December 26, 2020

  • Thank You, “Banaffe” From Uganda
  • “Cristmas Ennungi.” (we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy near year)

December 17, 2020

  • And, the winners are…
    • Virtual scavenger hunt
  • Delivery of the Festive Christmas Food gifts
  • Last day of the school term at Mustard Seed

November 19, 2020

  • Christmas at Mustard Seed

November 11, 2020

  • Looking up

October 13, 2020

  • Excitement is running high
  • Career Opportunity Pathways Program

September 25, 2020

  • Back to School Soon!

August 2020

  • Pride and Joy
  • Reflections
  • New Experiences Abound
  • Trip of a Lifetime
  • A Graduation Party
  • Assessing and Planning

August 30, 2020

  • Promising

August 12, 2020

  • Back to School?
  • The Latest
  • Other challenges for Uganda

June 7, 2020

  • “You are a saviour”
  • Uncertainty in Uganda remains. The latest in brief
  • Other challenges for Uganda

May 1, 2020

  • Thank you!

April 28, 2020


April 21, 2020

  • Update from Lukaya, Uganda

April 14, 2020

  • Lockdown Continues

April 8, 2020

  • Highs and Lows in Lukaya

August 2019

  • MSA Pioneer Class, First Fruits
  • Rags to Riches: Hamdan Class of ’17
  • Greening the MSA ‘Green Campus’
  • Wish List
  • Mandi Bray—Newest Volunteer
  • When Is a Chicken More Than a Chicken?

June 2016

  • Big & Small Miracles Lukaya 2005-2015
  • How Far We Have Come…..Next?
  • News Briefs
  • Visitors to Tree of Life Ministries
  • RPU’s Fiscal Year 2015 Overview


April 2014

  • One Boy’s Story
  • Imagine! by Joe Griswald
  • News Briefs
  • RPU’s Fiscal Year 2013 Overview


April 2013

  • 2012: Best Year Yet at TOLM
  • 2013: Promises to be even better
  • Volunteers & Visitors Enrich the MSA Experience
  • The Door to Rapha’s House
  • RPU’s Fiscal Year 2012 Overview

Sept 2013

  • ‘A Place to Sing’
  • Lessons from Uganda
  • Social Work Professors Teach “Service Learning”
  • We Are Moving!
  • Sponsor A Day-a new way to help
  • Not Only Money
  • White House Points of Light Ceremony
  • Spread the Word-New Brochures
  • Lives Changed for Ugandans and Americans


November 2012

  • A Day in the Life of a Mustard Seed Academy Student