Making an impact: Bundibugyo, Western Uganda
From BUILD Partners.
[…] One intervention grew from an invitation to train leaders in the neglected area of Bundibugyo in the west of Uganda, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. And, with a recent training even there, it is worth looking back at the genesis of BUILD’s work there a decade ago. Bundibugyo is a community with significant deprivation, with few committed Christians and high levels of drug and alcohol abuse. Livelihoods have suffered through poor farming practices, low education levels and a lack of financial skills with which to handle the modest income from crop sales. In the midst of this poverty trap, a Uganda-based agricultural business that is committed to the area and has a Christian director constructed a beautiful new church building, St Philip’s, to replace the one on Church of Uganda land the company had purchased for its new factory.
However, to some peoples’ surprise, very few came to the new building; the real church had yet to be built. BUILD was invited into the situation to not only train leaders and build a congregation, but to reach out with the gospel, influence other churches in the area and bring change to people’s lives. The approach was simply to equip church leaders to handle the Bible and to help them apply it to areas of church and community life…
Editor’s note: BUILD is an excellent, low-cost programme aimed at empowering the leaders of local churches, mostly in disadvantaged parts of east Africa, to be more faithful disciples of Christ and more effective in mission. The method is a course which helps participants understand, apply and explain the Bible; educationally the materials are accessible to people at the grassroots, but in-depth and comprehensive in content. Donations to this ministry can be made here.
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