Jireh Ministries Foundation was founded by Jim Fruehan, in 2006 within a year after his wife, Robyn, returned from a life changing 2-week mission trip to Uganda. After reading Rick Warren’s “A Purpose Driven Life,” Robyn went to the African nation with Believers World Outreach, a church in Oklahoma that coordinates several missionary trips throughout the world. During her trip, she spent a brief time at a Children’s Center where she met a Pastor. She made a commitment to the Pastor that she would get him to the United States. After she returned home, God never let her forget that he placed it on her heart to bring the Pastor to the United States to share his Ministries.

Robyn worked diligently to raise funds and plan for his trip to the USA, because she saw the need to help the people of Uganda. As Jim and Robyn studied this country they learned more about all the needs and how so many children did not have a lot of things including families. Jim says; “It was at that time, with the persuasion of the Lord, that I decided to start Jireh Ministries Foundation.”

Because they saw the need to live in Uganda in order to make sure the ministry is administered properly, Jim and Robyn uprooted their settled life in America. They sold their home, quit their construction business and moved to Uganda in 2008. The word Jireh means “to provide” taken from Genesis 22:14 where it says Jehovah Jireh or The Lord Will Provide. Jim and Robyn live by this scripture.

From our beginning of helping just one ministry in Uganda we have grown and developed into a Ministry that believes in the people of Uganda. In Uganda we operate as an NGO under the name of He Will Provide Ministries. We have several Outreach Programs that brings us along side of local Ugandan churches, organizations and individuals. We are involved in Evangelism, Hospital, and Prison Ministries. We sponsor YCMC, an active youth group of over 40 teenagers. Our Medical School Assistance Program helps to send a medical student through school and in exchange the student volunteers to help with our children now and after he graduates. In 2008 we started a water project called H2O8 to help people obtain clean water.

Our largest project is The Door of Hope Families where we raise children to be God fearing solid citizens to become the future of Uganda. Here they get a good education, are well fed with a balanced diet all in a Christian family atmosphere. The children have varied backgrounds. Because of AIDS and the civil war in Uganda many children are without one or both parents. Poverty is a major factor that affects everything from health care to education. We have some children that have seen their family members murdered from the Genocide in Rwanda. We know that if our children were not with us, they would not have much of a chance.