Hi!
We are both really excited now that a placement in Uganda has been organised for us through BMS (Baptist Mission Society). We are looking forward to serving God in Kasese, Uganda. Our main focus there will be to help start up a sunday school for a church there. At present there are lots of children at the church but no sunday school so we shall be devising programs for the sunday school sessions and training the leaders! We shall also be leading some youth talks and staying for a few weeks nearby in a rural school helping teaching there. We will be staying in a volunteer flat with a couple who are working there long term and also helping them out with their work (schools work and legal work). At the moment we are busy trying to organise resources we may need with great help from our families! Here are some prayer points which if you can lift up in prayer would be much appreciated:
Safety in travel
Language – the children and locals speak a tribal language with little english so we’re not sure how exactly our sunday schools and training will work (we may have a translator?!). Pray that we can learn a little language and somehow be able to communicate in English or via a translator effectively.
Adapting what we know of children and youth work to Uganda to make it relevant and accessible to Ugandan children.
Training – that our training to local church people will be sucessful and sustainable so that after we have left they will be able to deivse their own programmes and continue with sunday school building up the children.
Health – that we will stay well with differences in diet, water and safety from malaria.
Realtionships – that we will form good relationships with the couple there (Graeme and Jenny) and with local people at the church and school.
Thank you! It is very much appreciated!
Love Tim and Ali
