Highlights:

• Inaugural Schools’ Worship Service
• Teens One Day Camp
• Building, Business and Ministry

Joy Centre view - glorious sunsets everyday!

Construction of the Joy Center conference hall has been quiet for a few months, but fundraising is in earnest following the completion of roofing of the boardrooms, offices, kitchen and restaurant. The plan is to complete plastering, wiring, plumbing and furnishing this annex which can be used as money for the main conference hall is raised.

As we wait for finances, the incomplete facility is not lying redundant.  Not at all!  It is a venue for regular meetings (see the Teens One Day Camp and the photo gallery below) and it serves as a constant reminder of the faithfulness of God. (more…)

By Benoni Mugarura-Mutana

How many times are we taught lessons before we are changed by what we have learned? I am talking about the good things that change our lives for better.

Perhaps many of us are never changed by what we learn because of the way we are taught.  Perhaps we have become accustomed to ignoring important lessons, choosing to live our lives as we please.

Think of the last seminar, workshop of conference you attended.  Were you changed or did things return to normal?  Was it back to the same routine, back to old habits until the next conference or seminar?

Consider our situation in Uganda.  Our education system is based on passing examinations.  Educationists have debated this problem for years, but the change is yet to come.

Why, for instance, would any child growing up in Uganda be taught in history about the Boston Tea Party, the geography of the Rhine River or the Canadian prairies?  There are many subjects taught in Ugandan schools that are inapplicable to our situation and so the information given is forgotten as soon as it is taught.  It does nothing to increase real knowledge or give skills to the learner.

Strangely the teaching of real skills subjects – those that can prepare students for the world – are ignored and relegated to select vocational colleges and the School of Life.

Unfortunately the teaching and learning of the Word of God is often approached in the same way. It is not unusual for people to go to church every Sunday and to ignore the Word of God. (more…)