Pray for Summer Camp

The UK team are off to Uganda, leaving this Wednesday (17th August) and returning on Sunday 28th August.

The team will be serving at this year’s Summer Camp. The theme for camp is ‘Hope alive — no matter what.’

Thank you to everybody who has given gifts, letters and clothes for us to take to Uganda. The packing and weighing of luggage has started!

Thank you also to Becky, Holly, Mandie, Maya, Megan, Louise, Sebastian and Wendy for responding to God’s call and volunteering to serve on the Summer Camp team. For the majority, it is their first time in Uganda or even Africa. Please pray for each one of them in the days leading up to Summer Camp as well as while we are there.

Please join us in prayer for the summer camp:

  • Visas to arrive promptly

  • Travel: Flights not to be cancelled; trouble free travel (from Heathrow via Doha to Entebbe and back) and all the luggage to arrive with us.

  • Health: Protection from Covid before we travel and the health of the team whilst in Uganda.

  • Training: For the success of the joint Summer Camp team training session on Friday 19th

  • Good relationships with the Ugandan Summer Camp team.

  • For the Uganda team as they continue the preparations in Kampala.

  • The Bible teachers and life skills leaders

  • That God would prepare the hearts and minds of the young people as they look forward to camp.

  • That God would use each one of us as his hands and voice to bless the adults and children we meet.

  • That more of the Karis youth will come to know Jesus as their Saviour.

Timetable

If you would like to follow us through the week and pray for our daily activities, this is our timetable for the trip…

Wed 17 – Thu 18 August

  • UK team Fly from Heathrow at 9:40pm landing in Entebbe at 4pm, Thursday 18th.

Fri 19 August

  • Welcome Meeting with the Karis Family Link Ministry team and Ugandan teaching teams

  • Joint team training

  • Visiting Karis families

Sat 20 August

  • Visiting Karis families / Camp preparation

Sun 21 August

  • Individuals worship at linked churches. Then join together at All Saints Cathedral for 50th Jubilee celebrations.

Mon 22 August

  • Visit to Ugandan Wildlife Education Centre, Entebbe plus a craft market.

Tues 23 - Sat 27 August: Summer Camp!

  • Children and youth gather at churches Tuesday morning and are transported to Seroma High School.

  • Camp officially opened by Bishop Hannington Mutebi.

  • Daily early morning prayer and exercise class before breakfast.

  • After breakfast praise and worship, then Bible teaching as a whole group followed by smaller group discussions.

  • After lunch, more praise and worship followed by:

    • Day 1: arts and craft

    • Day 2: life skills

    • Day3: Fun night preparations

  • Sport and games outside after fruit and a drink

  • Dinner is followed by evening worship and testimony, a film, and, on the last night, performances and a camp fire.

Sat 27 August: Last day of camp

  • The children and youth write letters to link families and leave for home after lunch.

  • The UK team leaves mid-morning to travel back to Entebbe for 17:30 flight to Heathrow via Doha.

  • Nick and Julie Winning stay on to work with the Karis team for a 2nd week.

Sun 28th August

  • UK team Arrive back in UK.

Will Law