Children’s Mission 2009 3 August 2009
Posted by Bill Lovett in Hospital News.Tags: evangelism, faith in Uganda, witness
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Crowds of kids
Had Children’s Mission recently? What do you do when you expect 5000 and you get possibly 7000? Pray. Pray for no crowd stampedes. Pray that there’ll be enough food. That the helpers have enough stamina to manage the crowds. That there’ll be no unseasonal downpours. And of course – that the children will understand the Gospel message and commit themselves in a meaningful way to new life in God. Well these prayers were answered, despite the threatening chaos.
Youth Praise – Not a whisper but a bang 7 March 2009
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: church, evangelism, Kisiizi, Uganda
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- Worship with energy
Recently younger leaders in the Hospital Chaplaincy organised a Youth Conference. People were asked to support it financially and we put in a modest contribution. I was told this was not evangelistic but for teaching or discipleship in the Christian faith. And that it was mainly aimed at staff and students, rather than other locals. The program was led by a big name Pentecostal preacher from Kampala supported by Anglican Diocesan youth ministers. Ecumenism is not recognised in theory, but in practice works fairly well.
Vanishing Community? 21 January 2008
Posted by Bill Lovett in On the Pilgrim's Road.Tags: church, community, evangelism
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Community, kinship, clan – big things in Uganda. All gone in UK? Well, Bill got a surprise in a recent church visit to St Mary’s in Hayes, Kent. We know a couple at the church well, from days of old, and went to their son’s wedding at St Mary’s Hayes. Bill lived locally (more…)
