I worked in the school this week from Tuesday to Wednesday, and Florence (Emmanuel’s wife) who is the Director of the school came in and sorted me out a timetable. I have been given a P2 class (including 7-10 yr olds) for reading each morning, and then a mixture of P3, P4 and P7 RE, and English with P5 and P6.
The first few days were trying actually, and it was hard to get the kids to understand my accent, to figure out exactly what abilities they were and whether the teachers actually wanted me to help or not... but thankfully they do, and they kids want to understand me and after a few days it wasn't so hard to figure them out as i thought! Actually I finished up with a bag of lesson plans, textbooks, syllabusis (syllabi?) and a very high level of respect for teachers who are at that school from 6.30am till 4pm every day and then go back to cook, feed their children, clean their house and plan the next day's lesson - especially when the electricity goes and it's all by candle light!
Time is very short so will let you know more soon but today mari and me went with a doctor to the school and dished out pills and advice to the local ppl. Thanks for your prayers and we miss you all!
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From the end of the earth to the ends of the earth...
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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