An African Dream: June 2012

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Trustees Meeting

We have our next Trustees meeting on Saturday 23rd June. Please pray for safe travel to the meeting and pray especially for our deliberations.
Pray that we make wise decisions that are in line with God's puposes for AAD.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

June visit to St Marks

Our good friend and supporter Candy from Pipers School will be visiting St Marks on June 11th, 12th & 13th She will be teaching some RE and dance lessons while there. During her visit her husband, will be working with Robbie Keene in delivering a teaching conference to 200 or so Pastors and church youth leaders. Typically in Ugandan fashion it has escalated from being a small conference for the 22 pastors in training to this.
Please pray for these visitors that they will remain safe and be inspired in their areas of teaching.

An African Dream - some history

“An African Dream” dates back to 1997 when Mark Wynter heard and obeyed a call from God to go to work in Western Uganda. During the following five years Mark visited annually to preach at a Bible teaching conference. Over these years a strong relationship was built with Pastor Lumika Masereka Eric (who is now Bishop of the East Kasese Diocese of the Full Gospel Church (FGC)) and his wife Rebecca.

In 2001 Mark and his wife Sophie bought a piece of land on which they planned to build their home with the intention of settling and working in Kasese Diocese long term. In 2002 they were based in Kampala for six months to learn the language and to prepare for their future life. Whilst back in the UK in 2003 for the birth of their first son Noah, Mark was re-diagnosed with cancer. In October 2004 their second son James was born, and sadly Mark died in January 2005. At this point Sophie realised that the calling to work in Uganda would develop in a different way.

Eighteen months after Mark’s death, Sophie returned to Uganda to visit friends and to strengthen previous relationships. Following discussions with Bishop Lumika as to what the land should be used for, it became clear that a primary school would be of most benefit to the local area, which led to the building of St Mark’s School. “An African Dream” now exists to support a number of projects of which St Mark’s School is one.

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