Become a Link Church

How does it work?

1. Send us a message

If you’re a senior leader of a local church, we’d love to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and your church.

2. Have a meal together

We believe in long term relationships with our Link Churches. We’ll arrange a meal to sit down and share who we are, what we do, our values, how the finances work and a few stories too.

3. Go to Uganda

Before we ever get to the stage of speaking to your church, every senior church leader needs to go to Uganda and meet the church leaders, the team, and witness the slums. We run these trips at least once a year.

What’s my church’s commitment?

Becoming a Link Church is a serious commitment.

The first step is having your senior leaders come out to Uganda to meet the team, the church, and witness life in the slums first hand.

When you become a Link Church, we are building something together that must go beyond even your time leading at your church. Even if you have no plans to move on, the families in Uganda rely on our faithful support to survive and we must consider how to protect them through different circumstances.

Each Link Church is linked with a local church in the slums of Kampala. When members of your church become Link Families, they will be linked with families specific to your area.

All Link Churches contribute financially towards community workers in their area, secondary school fees, as well as special celebrations like our Christmas Celebration (held annually) and the Summer Camp (held every two years).

We also have different opportunities available for our Link Churches depending on their circumstances. For example, some churches subsidise the cost of becoming a Family Link for every one of their members. One Link Church pays the salary of a staff member in Uganda. These types of commitments make Karis Kids possible.

Lastly, becoming a Link Church is not just a financial commitment. It is about building relationship and committing to love, support and pray for your new community in Uganda as an extension of your own. All our existing Link Churches model this and it makes being part of Karis Kids something of true eternal significance.