ABOUT US

Two pastors were moved in their hearts and agreed that they had to do something. Pastor Mark Schmutz and Pastor Brian Strom decided that they would travel to Uganda before the year’s end. In March of 2003, Mark and Brian met Ugandan pastors, Ephraim and Jova Tumusiime at a leadership conference in Maryland. After sharing their hearts with these Ugandan church planters, it was decided that an exploratory trip would take place in October 2003. That first mission team gave birth to the DOVE Uganda Children’s Fund, which now sponsors more than 370 children from multiple congregations in the USA and New Zealand.

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In the summer of 2006, DUCF became organized as a 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization. The goal of DUCF is to partner with the local church of Uganda through child sponsorship, to restore hope to this war-ravaged country, one child at a time.