I thought this point deserved a special post because I know tea is so close to the hearts of some people I know!
Tea in Uganda is warm milk with tea leaves in. Most people put in at least 3 sugars and Florence will often find some random leaf to stick in it which we've never worked out what kind of herb it is! sometimes they buy milk but its very expensive, and also hard to keep good. This is because it is bought long life in a kind of cardboard container that you rip open so you cant keep it sealed. And also the fridge is turned off overnight, so it wouldnt be any good in there. So generally I have been getting used to black tea, which is actually quite nice, but to my shame I am starting to only like it with 2 or even 3 sugars in it. Something I never thought I would become lol.
HOWEVER today has been a breakthrough! because I have just been to a big shopping centre and found....wait for it... not just twinings tea... not even just twinings fruit tea... but my actual favourite in the whole wide world... cranberry raspberry and elderflower tea!!!!!!!
I didn't miss it, but I am very happy that I found it. It actually made my day lol. What didn't make my day quite so much was that it cost the extortionate equivalent of 2.50 pounds. But there you go, I treated myself, and no more sugar for me :)
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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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1 comment:
That's how milk is in Trinidad too...those boxes. Why does the refridgerator have to be turned off overnight though? For that matter, that's how Trinidad tea is as well...which is probably why I never liked tea until I got an English re-education. :-) Haha, I'm imagining you drinking sugary black tea when you were comitted to the lemon and hot water! :-P
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