1. The newsletter provides updates on Africa Training Ministries Uganda and Mercy Seat Missions Australia's joint efforts to empower victims of war in northern Uganda through education, trauma counseling, and teaching microenterprise skills like craft making. 2. They are raising funds for priorities like purchasing land for a vocational school, a vehicle for aid distribution, counseling, and education at all levels to help communities devastated by the Lord's Resistance Army conflict from 1986 to 2011. 3. In 2013, their women's programs made history by providing the first training for 48 women and girl former child soldiers and LRA escapees, helping them learn skills to support themselves instead of relying on handouts.

1. Africa Training Ministries Uganda
&
Mercy Seat Missions Australia
Issue 2— JANUARY 2014
Featuring the AFRICA TRAINING
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by
the bad people but the silence over that by the good people”
Martin Luther King Jr
ESSENTIAL NEEDS NOT
WANTS
1. Balance of funds for
FINAL purchase of Vocational School land and
buildings $AUD $15,000
2. Four Wheel Drive
for medical/food supply
response unit
3. Trauma Counselling
4. Education all levels
5. Post War rehab
Inside this issue:
AUCTION = ACTION
Original Ugandan
hand made
crafts
FOR SALE
BY
AUCTION
In my last newsletter
we were raising much
needed funds for a
4WD. This vehicle is
still very much needed
although our priority
list is growing. Once
back in Uganda under
the guidance of the Executive Director of African Training Ministries
“Pastor James Omara”,
I was taken to many
remote villages outside
Lira. To see a “white”
was unique to them. No
Non Government Organisational support
had been provided to
them from the beginning of the Kony’s Rebels Lord’s Resistance
Army (LRA) war
1986 - 2011 Uganda
Education- both formal
and vocational ;
Trauma Counseling
and Rehabilitation programs are essential .
What was your child
doing over the holidays?
Sadly the majority of
Pastor James’ family
was massacred in this
very first onslaught
outside Lira 2003 .
WOMEN IN NORTHERN UGANDA MAKE HISTORY IN 2013 Achievements in 2013
Thank You Hervey Bay
Baptist Church, Sunrise
Rotary Hervey Bay and Dr
Sam for your
generous donations in 2013
One life at a time!
48 Women and girl LRA
Escapees /former child soldier victims ,made history as
the first women in Northern
Uganda to be given training.
Uganda has had more of
her share of the ugliness
of war and corruption.
So how can we make a
difference? Answer:
ATM and Mercy Seat
joined together in empowering women to
learn and be valued
within their local and
Ugandan community

2. Issue 2— JANUARY 2014 NEWSLETTER
Page 2
Purchase directly from Mercy Seat Mission all Ugandan hand made Original craft. Own your unique
genuine AFRICAN decorator pieces by bidding online from my Facebook auctions “ronni Jeffery”
UGANDAN wall hanging
on heavily woven cotton.
Size: 87cm width x 150 depth
CURRENT Reserve bid is:
$147AUD (unframed)
go online to Facebook page
Ronni Jeffery to bid
OR view other ITEMS
This AUCTION CLOSES ON
28th JANUARY 2014
100% raised is returned to
ATM Uganda’s victims
guaranteed!
Does helping hurt others ?
Indeed it can when we turn
third world survivors of tribal wars into beggars!
NGO’s , missionaries and aid agencies have sometimes been the
cause of hopelessness to those who simply want to be.
Let us empower them by allowing vulnerable and internally
displaced persons to be educated, have ownership of their own
cultural legacy and to teach the following generations how to live
simply, honestly and self sufficiently
Micro Enterprise is not a new concept to the world, however to
those who have suffered atrocities like the escapee child soldiers
and survivors of his LRA war—it IS!
By purchasing any of these hand made pieces, is just the beginning of children reaching physical, mental and spiritual restoration. REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE!
“NOT ON THE HAND OUT TRAIL”— ATM & Mercy Seat educate & teach Micro Enterprise to victims of war
Pastor James Omara (right)
said “There are so many
needs in this world and
northern Uganda is among
the poorest and most needy
in the world today.”
‘War torn from the LRA Rebels, communities have suffered atrocities beyond belief among my brothers and
sisters in Africa.”
Mercy Seat founder Ronni
Jeffery says “For too long the
world has given charity but
no planning for their future
freedom and growth.
Instead of buying produce,
equipment etc for these internally displaced people,
ATM and Mercy Seat have
introduced a self sustainable,
micro enterprise scheme.
Each district has been given
art pieces to learn and create
from. No remote villages
with escapee child soldiers ,
victim or returnees has received NGO help to date.
Rather than buying a plot of
land for AUD $10K, leasing
a plot of land for the sum of
$2AUD per month with
monies earned from their
own hand made craft will
allow an income from farming and skills development .
The war started in 1986
and ended in 2011!!!
“—one day at a time”
If you are interested in becoming involved in the education, rehabilitation and
restoration of these children,
youth and former sex slaves
to Kony’s soldiers and their
HIV offspring then please
contact either:
Ronni Jeffery—Facebook Page
or Email:
ronnijeffery@gmail.com
OR
Ps James Omara on his Face-
book page. You can help
immediately by inviting Ronni
to guest speak at your community event, school, rotary
club and church.
Hear the true stories of people like James who went into
the burning villages night
after night “just in case he
could save one more person”.
REACH OUT AND TOUCH
SOMEONE TODAY
So how can we make a
difference? Answer:
One life at a time—one
day at a time says
Ronni Jeffery (below)
In turn this creates economic/community development and long term sustainability. Whilst creating their
unique art (a form of rehabilitation) they are also telling their own story of capture, abduction, escape and
now restoration for future
generations.
Three generations were
wiped out by Kony LRA .
The survivors , culture and
future, is at risk of annihilation. Total dependence on
charity only opens the doors
to the exploitation and rape
of the wealth and peoples of
this beautiful nation.

3. How to donate:
DONATE PLEASE:
Hervey Bay Baptist Church
BSB: 704 913
ACC: 002225
Reference: Missions Child Soldiers
For more information contact
ronnijeffery@ gmail.com
Phone: +61 403783407