by The Rev. Dr. Stephen and Mrs. Peggy Noll
Note: Twenty-five years ago my wife Peggy and I sensed a call to serve in Uganda at Uganda Christian University. Prior to our departure, we addressed our home congregation, St. Stephen’s in Sewickley on June 4, 2000, the Sunday between Ascension and Pentecost.
I served as Vice Chancellor from 2000 to 2010, during which time, UCU became the first chartered private university in the country and grew from several hundred to more than ten thousand students. That growth has continued to this day, with 14,000 students, 7 campuses, and a medical school, which opened in 2015. Uganda Christian University was and remains an explicitly Christian university, including the Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology, which educates clergy for the Anglican Church of Uganda and more widely in East Africa.