Since 2001 Community Church Sheppey has had the privilege of being partners with a network of Pentecostal churches in Uganda, which is headed up by Pastor Emmanuel Sunday and his wife Florence. Their churches run an orphanage and a number of primary schools and do incredible work with widows and needy people in their communities, including food programmes and youth work.
Each year a team from Sheppey visits Emmanuel and his projects to encourage them and see where we can help. Our friendship with the Ugandan churches has really changed us and helped us to put our lives in perspective. Many Sheppey businesses, schools and individuals have also got involved and generous donations have enabled us to fund new church and school buildings, as well as providing water supplies, supporting church leaders and sponsoring orphans and teachers.
This blog is being started to put all the information, photos and stories about our church's partnership with Uganda in one place. We are passionate about making sure you know exactly where your donations have been spent, and would especially like to give you the chance to get to know some of the many people you have been helping.
We are excited to see what more God has planned for us all as this partnership develops, and as five of us set off again this August we will soon have new stories, photos and ideas to share with you. So keep an eye on this blog as we hope to upload plenty more information in the coming weeks!
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Community Church Sheppey is a Pentecostal church on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, and is working through the Christian organisation Connections in partnership with a church in Bweyogerere in the suburbs of Kampala. This church oversees a number of small village churches scattered around Uganda, and through it CCS has donated money and built friendships with many churches in this network, as well as another church outside this network (led by Pastor James Akolo, who was studying in the UK in 2005 and met CCS at a Christian conference).
This relationship was established when a member of CCS visited Uganda in 2001 and brought back reports of poverty and church activity in some of these places. Since this time money has been donated to build brick church buildings for four churches, support Pastors, pay for building work and equipment for schools as well as sponsorship of teachers and orphans at two of these schools. A close relationship has been established between the leaders of CCS, Connections and the Ugandan churches and the members of the churches are also involved in correspondence and annual visits to Uganda.
This Blogspot is intended to provide information and updated stories about the churches we support in Uganda and our own church, and enable you to get to know the individuals and communities you have supported. A partnership that is just about giving money doesn't really acheive anything in the long run. What is incredible about this partnership is that the friendships that have built up through regular visits and contact mean that we are both having an impact on eachother. Encouraging eachother in our faith and sharing the sense of God's purpose for our lives, we are working together for the good of our communities.
Villages all over Uganda will never be the same again because of Sheppey. Sheppey will never be the same again because of Uganda. God is really up to something.
This relationship was established when a member of CCS visited Uganda in 2001 and brought back reports of poverty and church activity in some of these places. Since this time money has been donated to build brick church buildings for four churches, support Pastors, pay for building work and equipment for schools as well as sponsorship of teachers and orphans at two of these schools. A close relationship has been established between the leaders of CCS, Connections and the Ugandan churches and the members of the churches are also involved in correspondence and annual visits to Uganda.
This Blogspot is intended to provide information and updated stories about the churches we support in Uganda and our own church, and enable you to get to know the individuals and communities you have supported. A partnership that is just about giving money doesn't really acheive anything in the long run. What is incredible about this partnership is that the friendships that have built up through regular visits and contact mean that we are both having an impact on eachother. Encouraging eachother in our faith and sharing the sense of God's purpose for our lives, we are working together for the good of our communities.
Villages all over Uganda will never be the same again because of Sheppey. Sheppey will never be the same again because of Uganda. God is really up to something.
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