Current Projects

"So, what is Sarah up to exactly?” For those detailed friends and supporters out there, here are the details…

Youth Outreach:

Currently, the students in Uganda are on their “summer break” until February (even though it always “feels” like summer). They take two other breaks during the year for one month – one in May and another in August. It is during these times that we are targeting the youth with the AIDS education and other topics including Peer Pressure, Making Right Choices, Abstinence, and God’s Plan for their lives.

Please remember in prayer the upcoming speaking engagements; there will be a range of 100-300 young people at each event.

¨ December 10^th – 15^th RUN Bible Youth Camp
¨ January 14^th -18th Youth Camp:

Specifically, pray that God gives me relevant analogies to communicate the principles to the youth and that I would be comfortable speaking through a translator. Also, we are still working on getting the New Testament Bible’s that have youth-focused devotionals. I was hoping to have them by the January camp, but not sure if that will happen.

AIDS Education for Pastors

Praise Report – God has really given me favor with World Vision Organization here in Uganda. They are talking about including me in their AIDS Education Facilitator training in South Africa in February. They would mentor me to be able to facilitate my own Aids Education Conferences for Pastors. This program is specifically directed to help pastors educate their congregations, create their own outreach programs, and care for the HIV positive people in their communities. Since Pastors are truly the front-lines of the epidemic here, this is a unique opportunity. I would be able to incorporate this program into two Bible College’s and we are talking about planning a Pastors Conference around this topic in the Spring.

Hope Village Construction

No construction is currently being done because we are waiting for the Hope Village Board of Directors to be established. They will be responsible for making decisions on building and policies as well as to keep accountable for the financial decisions. Please pray for wisdom as the governing structures of this 1.5 million dollar project get put into place, and everyone can be happy with the accountability in place.

Medical Clinic

Another praise report - God brought us a great resource for the Medical Clinic! A man randomly contacted me by email. He started a clinic in another area of Kampala and since it such a tedious process, he has a heart to help others that have to go through the same process. He has really helped to break-down the steps for us and even given us contacts within different agencies and organizations. I will need to visit ten different locations and find the “right” people at each office in order to get us recognized as an official clinic as well as receive the drugs and materials needed to stock the clinic. Please continue to pray over this entire process – as I am going to take the lead on navigating this process.

I also came to help build the local church here and they have determined to keep me busy! Here are the projects I am working on at RUN Bible Church.

Assimilation Program

I am working with Staff Pastors at RUN Bible Church to put an Assimilation Program in place for the church. In other words, help them capture visitors, make them feel loved and then connect them into Membership Class and Cell groups. We need creativity for the strategy because on 50% of people have phones and there is no addresses here. So following up with people’s prayer requests and needs are 10x more difficult! In this process, we are also pulling new curriculum together for a two-month Membership class. Currently, the class goes indefinitely!

Church Cell Groups

Pastor Wilfred has asked me to help him organize and launch Cell Groups in their church. They started to put them together last year, but never got it launched. We have scheduled Cell Group Leader training in January and are pulling curriculum together for that. Cell Groups will be launched in February. Please pray that the leaders catch the vision to be “Pastors” of their people.

Singles Ministry

Finally, I am helping the church launch a Singles Ministry. Again this is difficult because of the technical barriers (lack of phones and emails) and financial barriers, since many of them may be looking for jobs. But, just like in the United States, this group of people are looking for a relational community, not just another church service. We are planning to do Quarterly Events and Cell Groups for singles. Our first event will be on New Year’s Eve. Please pray that we will find a good venue for our event and that we can motivate them to get plugged into Cell Groups and evangelize their communities.