Looking for something that will grip young people’s imaginations and open up their understanding of the world?
Why not visit the ‘Slum Survivor’ website, for great ideas to help youth groups understand what it’s like for a young person growing up in third world slums. The interactive materials can be used in youth groups or school [...]
Archive for October, 2008
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Money available for uganda travel
There is £1000 available for each deanery to help facilitate travel to Uganda. For more information contact Chris Dobson at Church House: 01179060100 or chris.dobson@bristoldiocese.org
This money is available to help groups or individuals who are travelling to Uganda as part of our Diocesan and Deanery links. We would particularly like to encourage people who have [...]
Rukunjiri Rondavels – Out in Africa with Emily Feltham
Emily Feltham has just left St Mary’s Redcliffe School, and has started a gap year before going on to study at Mansfield College, Oxford in 2009. Earlier this summer of 2008 she and a group from her youth group at St Michael’s Stoke Gifford visited Uganda.
Travelling out to Africa was a real challenge as it [...]
Training Pastors for Northern Uganda
14 years of support for Theological Education in Uganda
One of the greatest challenges facing churches in Africa is the provision of good quality education for clergy and lay ministers. This is particularly hard for those living in areas of conflict or economic deprivation.
In 1994 Canon Paul Berg, who was then vicar of Christ Church Clifton, [...]