Sweet Sleep

Sweet Sleep exists to disciple and empower women to break the cycle of economic and spiritual poverty for their families, communities, and for generations to come. Sweet Sleep accomplishes this mission by focusing on economic development in East Africa. Sweet Sleep has created cooperative business and savings groups called CO•OPs, where 10 to 12 widows, single mothers, and grandmothers are trained in business creation and development, and microfinance. These groups are given startup capital for a market-based group business of their choosing, along with seed funding for an internal savings and loan association. The group businesses provide long-term sustainability, and the loans taken from the savings group allow women to start individual businesses that provide immediate sustainability. To date, 175 CO•OPs have been launched, representing 1900+ households and supporting more than 11,000 vulnerable Ugandan women and children. Additionally, 100% of the CO•OPs initiated since 2016 are still fully functional, with annual yields in excess of 300% growth.The 2025 fiscal year is focused on the development of a working farm in Northern Uganda on two acres of land we purchased at the end of 2023. Capital development is ongoing with construction to be completed by the end of the year. Already, four CO•OPs have been cross-trained in various aspects of farming as an income generating activity, and have been given startup capital to create their own cooperative farms. The long-term goal of the farm is that it will sustainably fund all Uganda-based operations.Our discipleship strategy employs a trauma healing orality discipleship model. This seven-month Gospel curriculum not only teaches Biblical Truths, but also trains beneficiaries to share the Gospel among their communities. Since Sweet Sleep began tracking discipleship data in 2020, 22,440 Gospel conversations have taken place, resulting in 3212 decisions for Christ.Successful CO•OPs have access to Sweet Sleep's Water Projects as additional income generation opportunities. Qualified CO•OPs that have demonstrated a successful mastery of basic business principals, remain in good standing within their community, and demonstrate intentional discipleship efforts are given additional business training in cost analysis, budget building, and business development. Once they collectively save 50% of the total budget to construct a water collection cistern or water well, Sweet Sleep provides a grant of the other 50% of the budget toward the construction of the Water Project. Sweet Sleep continues to distribute beds, bibles, and mosquito nets to orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda. The beds are funded by American children’s ministries missions offerings and are hand delivered by volunteer short term mission teams one to three times a year. To date, Sweet Sleep has given more than 34,500 beds to children in Moldova, Haiti, Uganda, South Africa, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States.