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About
If you know us, Dave & Andrea Bouffard and family, you know that we’ve been serving God through Christian Camping ministry for several years. God has led us to a new phase of our journey by doing camp ministry…in AFRICA! We are missionaries with New Hope Uganda, and independent mission organization that has been working with orphans in Uganda, East Africa since 1988. Their mission is to bring the fatherhood of God to the fatherless children of Uganda. Now, they are starting a dynamic new arm of their ministry in order to further share the love of Christ with all they minister to… Musana Camps. In a country that has been plagued by war, disease, poverty, and hopelessness, Musana Camps seeks to change lives by encountering truth within the unique and powerful context of a Christian Camping ministry.Musana Camps will use Training Programs that will immerse young men and women in biblical truth in order to learn how to live in true biblical manhood and womanhood, develop a Christ-centered worldview, learn new life skills, improve old life skills, and have a chance to be actively involved in ministry, thus developing them into Christ-followers who can lead and be used by God to bring the fatherhood of God to the fatherless. Our Youth Camps will be for young people to come and experience Christ and community in a way they never have before…through the relationships, exciting and unique activities, and biblical teaching of Christian camp. Our Retreat Ministry will serve churches, children’s centers, schools, individuals, and families. Each retreat will be geared to pull participants away from their normal routines to learn, focus on Christ their creator, strengthen relationships, and hear from the Word of God about the hope He has for their lives and circumstances.
The camp is in it’s early stages of development and there is much to be done! Dave will be serving as the Executive Director of the camp and serve with a small team of missionaries who will train Ugandan counterparts to eventually run this ministry without foreign staff. Currently, Syd and Andrea Sparks are living on site and overseeing the development and operations of the camp. Syd will eventually focus primarily on overseeing all of the programming aspects of the ministry. Syd and Andrea both went through Camp Forest Springs L.T.D. (Leadership Training and Development) program as Andrea and I did and have an amazing passion for camp program and it’s effectiveness and pointing people to Christ. We are really excited that Nathan and Kendra Jackson, currently residing in Oklahoma and serving with New Life Ranch, will be joining the team as well as the Construction Manager. Nathan has lots of camp ministry experience in the area of construction and facility maintenance and this recent development of their joining our team is further evidence of God’s blessing the ministry of Musana Camps and moving things forward!
The camp property itself is located on the shores of beautiful Lake Victoria in southern Uganda. There are over 1,2oo acres currently available, but right now New Hope owns about 720 acres, which Dave had the privilege of visiting in November 2008. There is so much potential for how this land can be used for camp ministry. From the sand beach to the natural hilltop clearings and grassland to the jungle and equatorial forests, the property is an amazing display of the splendor of God’s creation.
Currently, we are students in the New Hope Uganda Institute of Childcare and Family, a 5 month training program that NHU operates twice a year. This training takes place at NHU’s main facility, the Kasana Children’s Center near Luwero, where there are over 150 fatherless children living on site. Upon completion of the Institute, we will then move to the camp property and further engage in the development of the ministry. Currently, we are raising funds for the construction of our home, which is to be built on site at the camp.
We are trusting God to provide additional ministry partners that will see the vision of how God wants to use Musana Camps for his Kingdom and support us through prayer, financial giving, and even by coming over short-term! If you are interested in more info on our ministry at Musana or New Hope Uganda in general, please do not hesitate to contact us! Please look through the rest of our site and see all that God is doing in our lives and in the ministry of New Hope Uganda. To God be the glory!
