Parish of Heswall

A Church for the Whole Community

Uganda Mission 2011

Latest:

The team arrived back in Heswall on Sunday 7 August at about 3.30pm. View the last updates sent from the Heswall YF teams and medical team during their trip to Uganda at www.rockofjoy.co.uk/blogs

Uganda homecoming 2

Three weeks ago almost 200 people gathered on Sunday 10th July to take part in the Commissioning Service:

YF Uganda Mission 2011

Training of the team for the 2011 mission trip was completed in good time - as was the fundraising!

Hungry Children

Paris Posh

Pastor Stephen

Background

In the summer of 2007 a team of 32 young people and leaders, with a medical team of 3 doctors, two nurses and a dentist went to Uganda for 3 weeks. The purpose of this venture was to work with children in two schools and an orphanage. The medical team ran clinics in rural villages outside Kampala and some of the young people had the opportunity to join this team of doctors for a couple of days.

This followed 18 months of intensive work building links between our young people and the children in Uganda, including sponsorship of 21 children and three teachers in Lungujja by our young people.

Longer term needs that the mission team identified during their visit included:

extension to the Rock of Joy School toilets
clean water borehole at Masaka
Sponsorship of teachers at Masaka
Food for children during the school day
a new school
medical needs - a longer term health project

Rock of Joy Trust

Following the mission trip a Trust was established to provide long term support for and funding to many of the longer term needs identified during the trip. Visit the Trust's website here

Long term relationships have also been established between the Rock of Joy schools and local Wirral schools, in particular St Peters Primary School.

Mission 2009

This built on the work initiated in 2007 and again involved a group of about 30 young people and their leaders from our Youth Fellowship travelling to Uganda to work and to serve for three weeks, from 10th July - 2nd August. There was also again a linked medical mission.

During the time they were there they helped with teaching at the schools and offered practical help such as building work and painting. They ran a holiday club each afternoon for the children in each centre based around a theme or story in the Bible and including related games, songs, art and craft work and drama with the children. Running the club in the afternoons has provided children with the opportunity to make friends and do something fun that teaches them about God.

The young people and leaders each had to raise £1200 to take part in this exciting venture.

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