Discipleship

The heart of IMFC’s mission is simple but powerful: making disciples who make more disciples — answering Jesus’ prayer in Matthew 9, “Send out the workers.”

Another way IMFC ministers is by using the hand gospel: a simple, memorable tool that helps people easily understand and share the message of salvation through Christ.

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The deepest desire of IMFC is to share the hope of the gospel and make disciples of all nations. This commitment often overflows into meeting real, everyday needs. Here are the ways that this heart for discipleship has taken shape on the mission field.

MANNA

Transforming lives through practical help and the hope of the Gospel

With your prayers and financial support, IMFC’s MANNA programs in Uganda help families build lasting income and experience life change.

A six-month free food program designed to help families save the money they would have spent on food.

Those savings become start-up funds for small businesses.
Participants receive training on how to start and manage these businesses.
When the food program ends, families are left with an established, legal income source.
It’s a hand-up, not a handout—impacting around 3,000 people.
Listening to the Gospel isn’t required to join, but it is shared, people are discipled, and lives are transformed—bringing glory to God.
Your support makes this possible—changing futures and glorifying God along the way.

IMFC is making disciples by the hundreds of thousands. In this movement of God, we see thousands and thousands of “normal” people producing disciple makers.

They do this by doing the Great Commission. They produce disciple makers using a simple strategy found in Scripture.

“What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” (2 Timothy 2:2)

IMFC prints and distributes hundreds of thousands of books to help produce these disciple makers.

Prisons

Bringing true freedom behind bars — by making disciples and meeting real needs in Uganda’s prisons.

What IMFC does:

Works with both prisoners and guards to train disciple makers for Jesus, offering hope that lasts beyond prison walls
Partners with Uganda’s prison system so that many prison guard trainees complete the IMFC discipleship course before graduating and serving across the country’s 212 prisons.
Supports prison staff and inmates in practical ways:

Sponsors netball teams for guards
Provides beds, septic systems, soap, and feminine products for prisoners

Adapting through challenges:

During COVID, IMFC staff could no longer enter prisons directly.
But because thousands of prisoners and hundreds of prison employees had already come to Christ through IMFC’s ministry, the Gospel kept spreading inside the prisons.
IMFC continued to help by supplying books, meeting essential needs, and funding prison projects whenever possible.

REFUGEES

Reaching forgotten refugees — planting churches, making disciples, and helping them build hope that lasts.

What IMFC is Doing:

Planting house churches and making disciples who make more disciples across the UN refugee camps in Uganda.
Extending this ministry to smaller pockets of refugees living outside the official UN system, often in commune-like settings.
These groups are mostly made up of widows and children who were sent to Uganda when civil wars began — many of their fathers are now presumed lost to the conflict.

Challenges they face:

Some women and children are registered with the UN; many are not.
We strongly encourage all to register, since without it they receive no official services and remain in Uganda illegally.
Even with registration, support from the UN is minimal, leaving families to do whatever they can to survive.

A Hand Up Through the MANNA Program

IMFC runs a special MANNA program tailored to help these overlooked refugees in practical, sustainable ways.
The goal: so that when IMFC leaves, these families can still provide for themselves.
While their stories often sound the same, every family’s situation is uniquely complex.

Women & CHILDREN

Serving women and girls with dignity — helping make childbirth safer and daily life freer.

What IMFC Does:

Provides free, sterile MAMA kits to hospitals, clinics, and midwives so women who can’t afford basic birth supplies still receive safe care.
Helps overcome a major barrier, since clinics often refuse service if women cannot pay for the necessary materials.
Reaches women who might not even be able to afford travel to a clinic, making sure cost isn’t the reason a mother or newborn is left without help.

Beyond Childbirth:

Teaches women and girls how to make washable, reusable hygiene products from materials they already have.
These “Just Trainings” give women and girls practical skills and freedom — so their daily lives aren’t limited by lack of access to disposable products.

Why it Matters:

Women and children in Africa face many challenges; by meeting these specific needs, IMFC helps protect health, dignity, and hope.