OUR HISTORY
WHO WE ARE
RMI was born out of a mission trip to Uganda by the Church of the Living God (CLG) Missions Team.
RMI is the compassionate ministry of CLG International Missions. It is a faith-based organization. CLG’s mission is to reach the cities and nations of the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the establishment of Branch churches. RMI’s mission is to meet the physical and emotional needs of the people, thus fulfilling Jesus’s holistic ministry of teaching, preaching, healing and deliverance (Luke 4:18). Our initial focus is ministering to vulnerable children.
The then Missions Minister of CLG-Maryland, Ebby Anyamba invited leaders of the African Christian Fellowship (ACF) to educate the CLG members on their missions work in Africa. On viewing the ACF videos on the state of children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda, the members were moved with compassion and wanted to help. That summer, six CLG members joined the ACF team to Uganda. On our return, our report had such an impact that over 70 members signed up to sponsor an orphan. In December 2004, Ebby returned to Fort Portal, Uganda to recruit the orphans to be sponsored. The CLG Child Sponsorship was subsequently launched on Sunday, February 13, 2005.
Summer 2005
It was found necessary to plant a CLG church in Fort Portal to cater for the spiritual needs of the children. Under the leadership of the CLG General Overseer, Rev. Dr. Stephen K. Gyermeh, the CLG church was launched in August 2005 and Pastor Paul Busobozi became the first pastor of the young church while Sister Temina Dalizu was the first director of the Child Sponsorship Program in Uganda. It was through her work on the ground that this program was finally established. On her return to the US the first local Team of leaders took over the management of the program.
The first local team, led by Jane Kabakama, took over management of the program in Uganda.
June 13, 2008
Rescue Mission International (RMI) was incorporated in the US as a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization. The main purpose of RMI is to facilitate the orphan sponsorship program.
As the compassionate ministry of CLG International Missions, the initial purpose of RMI was to facilitate the child sponsorship program.
May 2024
Construction of Phase 1 of Living God Christian School (LGCS), comprising of three classrooms and an administrative block began