Uganda

Located in East Africa, Uganda borders Africa’s largest freshwater lake — Lake Victoria. Roughly the size of Great Britain, Uganda is populated by dozens of ethnic groups. Uganda has been a relatively stable country and a refuge for those fleeing neighboring countries during times of conflict.  

KEY CHALLENGES

Half of Uganda’s elementary-aged girls are not in school. Poverty is one of the key reasons girls drop out of school. Impoverished families often need their daughters to stay at home and help with the housework or other income-generating activities. Some families feel forced to marry off their young daughters to receive a dowry, which can provide a much-needed source of income. Once married, young girls have responsibilities that keep them from attending school. 
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our approach

We were never intended to live in poverty, divided against one another, with little hope for peace. In the Kingdom of God, poverty, violence, division, and hopelessness will not exist. We believe the Church is God’s primary transforming agent in the world, and that the local church exists to make its community more like the Kingdom of God.   

We partner with local ministry leaders as they minister to the communities and cultures that they themselves are from. We start projects and programs in the hardest places and set up a plan for them to be self-sustaining in order for them to know independence and the value of reinvesting in their own communities. 

Our partners

Severino Maira Janus is the co-founder of the Evangelical Free Church in South Sudan (EFCSS) and has been a Mission ONE partner since 1992. Mission ONE Founder, Bob Schindler, met him on his first trip to Africa in 1988 while Severino was a student at Moffat College of the Bible in Kijabe, Kenya. Severino had a strong call and passion to take the word of God back to his war-torn country, regardless of the risk to his own life. Today, Severino is a leader in the community and a strong mentor to young men who are following his footsteps in ministry.  

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PROJECTS

Chicken Farming Project - The Chicken project in Uganda provides job opportunities for refugees in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp and an accessible source of food for the community. This project also supports three churches in the camp.

Gospel Context

East Africa has become a majority Christian culture over the last 200 years. While the message of Jesus has spread far and wide, the good news often lacks a connection to people's everyday lives.   

We have made it our mission to partner with local indigenous leaders and missional organizations around the world to reach unreached people groups by planting churches in the areas they are already serving. Not only do we desire to see more people come to Jesus Christ and experience the power of his life, death, and resurrection, but we also work towards sustaining the communities these churches are planted in. We do this by creating locally-sustained projects that aim to transform communities from the inside out. It’s our vision for communities around the world to look more like the Kingdom of God.  

Learn more about our work and how we connect to unreached people groups through the practice of listening by checking out our blog post: Listening as a Gospel Movement. 

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