From seeds to fruit: How past faithfulness is producing growth
Every harvest starts as a decision nobody can see. A seed goes into the ground months before anyone can point to what it will become. At Agape Star, all our developments are always full of those quiet decisions, and October is among the months when some of them are starting to produce fruit.
The harvest that proves the point
In mid August, the maize crop on our existing school garden reached maturity and was harvested, dried, and stored, leaving our food store fully stocked heading into Term 3. It is a small, practical thing: grain in a store. But it is also the clearest possible picture of what faithful work produces over time. That harvest did not just happen in August. It started months earlier, when we chose to plant.
What's maturing
The same pattern is visible across several projects still taking shape. Our land extension, formally acquired in July, continues under careful preparation, land assessments, title administration, and planning for a five-year farm production plan that will one day produce its own harvests (beans, tomatoes, maize, bananas, etc), at a scale far beyond one garden. Alongside it, we are intending to explore a maize and cassava milling machine and a small chicken-rearing project, two modest steps that could turn what the land produces into something that sustains the school even further.
The building and roofing for the dormitory extension was successfully completed in August.
Our Arise Women in Business project is progressing and growing in its own way. At their September quarterly meeting at 'Across the Nile Hotel', members spoke of goats that have given birth, businesses steadily building, and a shared sense that something real is taking root among them. They called it, in their own words, “unity and transformation.” That is fruit too.
The momentum behind the numbers
None of this growth stands alone. It rests on a school that opened Term 3 well, on staff who were paid in full and returned settled and ready, and on a community that showed up in force for August's fundraiser. Growth, it turns out, is rarely one dramatic moment, it is many small faithful ones, compounding.
As our P7 candidates enter their final stretch before the Primary Leaving Examinations, we carry the same conviction: what has been faithfully sown across this year is still producing. The fruit is not finished showing itself yet.
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9
With gratitude and anticipation,
Wamala Steven
The ASCS/BLCDF Team
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