Ishongororo is a small dusty town resting in the hills of Mbarara in the West of Uganda. It is 8 hours by road from Bweyogerere where Emmanuel and Florence live.
Pastor Azaria Mugizi oversees the main church, as well as twenty-one other small village churches in the surrounding area. He looks on Emmanuel as his spiritual ‘father’. Azaria has five children of his own and also cares for two others belonging to relatives. His wife, Grace, died in childbirth about four years ago, and he has since remarried to Robinah.
Pastor Boss is Azaria’s right hand man, and he is well known and respected in the town. His wife is Alina and they have four children (3 boys and one girl).
Ishongororo church was started by an elderly lady who everyone called Jaja (‘Granny’). Originally, the believers met in her house.
Community Church Sheppey have provided three cows (called Ebony, Ruthie and Big Mac!), which provide milk to the school children for their daily lunch of porridge, and we have also bought sheep for some of the widows to help them earn a living.
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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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