God’s Work Continues

Earlier this week we received via email a report of the annual Scripture Union Uganda 2-week Mission which this year focused on saturating the Jinja/Busoga region. When we left Uganda in mid-June, the Mission was just getting off the ground. 

Each year we are amazed at how much the Scripture Union staff and volunteers can accomplish in such a short time and this year was no exception. They divided the workers in ten teams and between all of them visited and spoke to 258 Primary Schools, and 117 Secondary Schools.  

Using the CrossTalk tracts at one of the schools

Many presentations were evangelistic and more than 12,000 CrossTalk tracts were distributed and 11,000 Welcome To God’s Family used.  Literally thousands of children and youth made professions of faith.  

Often they also used the VOICE curriculum, especially on Purity. Pray for follow up and more volunteers to teach Values Education Classes in these same schools.  

Here is how Scripture Union Uganda summarized the Mission:

Short term benefit: Among Busoga’s children, youth, and adults, God’s Word was sowed.  As a result they made choices for Christ including salvation, sexual purity and positive behaviour.

Long term benefit: Seeing people following Jesus, filled with hope and contributing to the transformation of Busoga.

Scripture Union’s strategy is to start clubs in primary and secondary schools so that children and youth who make faith responses have a place where they are nurtured.