We’re Really Going!

We have booked our flights, and it’s hitting us that we will be on our way to Uganda in just 159 days time!  Many of you will know the desire that Chris and I have had to go to Africa to volunteer, and through conversations with friends we were put in touch with an organisation that has needs we hope we can help with.  We have quite a bit of preparation we want to do in the lead up to the trip to make sure we are as useful as possible while we are there, both practically and spiritually!  We are also taking the promise that God will be our strength where we are weak, a far greater strength than we could acquire ourselves.

On May 17th we will be leaving to spend about 6 months in Mattuga, Uganda volunteering at the Revival Centre.  The Revival Centre hosts a primary and secondary school for 650 students, and an orphanage for 120 children.  They are continuing to build a farm that was started in 2009, and run a vocational centre and womens’ projects (helping women set up their own business through making crafts, bricks, farming pigs or crops and catering events).  The Revival Centre is supported by St John’s Church in Ilkley, England.  To find out more about the Revival Centre, please visit their website www.revivalcentrematugga.org.uk and to have a guided tour of the school by a couple of the students see this video – YouTube video

We will be contributing our skills in finance and marketing, helping with the vocational and womens’ projects and teaching in the school.  Alongside this will be some additional projects which we will find out more about soon.

Matugga is about 20km from Kampala, and according to Wikipedia has a population of about 15000, with 85% being under the age of 18 although this is a very rough estimation.  The current temperature in Matugga is 19 degrees at 8am, with a high of 28. Below are a few maps to help get an idea of where we will be (the gold star marks Matugga – its a bit hidden behind the word Kampala in the last picture)

We will be staying with pastor Ivan, from the church in Matugga.  The Revival Centre is the vision of pastor Ivan made possible when, in 2000, a group from England met him and supported the first buildings to start the school.  We are so looking forward to meeting him and being a part of the continuation of the Revival Centre.

For our friends and family who would like to keep up to date with our plans and our time over in Matugga we will endeavour to keep this blog up to date!