MASAKA VISIT

Me and Sam headed off to Masaka for a two day visit to meet with two existing projects and look for new partners we could work with. Day 1 was a small encouragment and empowering training and some fun and games with the street kids of Cro. Day 2 we got the chance to visit all the 6 projects two of which we are already working with and the other 4 with huge potential. God guided us to projects that were already running active which KSM can just come in and help better equip there leaders. exciting times.

 

 Reaching Children Retoration Outreach centre we had little time due to massive rain delays but finally we got into some parachute with around 30 children and 10 leaders from 6 different christian organisations. Cro is a street kids organisation so was hard work keeping them under control but with the help of some "press-ups" the children started to fully enjoy there day.

Encouraging time with all the leaders after games where i was able to share with them and encourage them to continue working hard for Christ. Was great to here there responses of excitment in the future of sports ministry in Masaka we pray our visit drives them on. 

There are many things in my time in Uganda which amaze me  but this has to be in my top five. Me and Sam got the chance to visit a disability school deep in Masaka where all the children are ever completly deaf or have little hearing. There sports teacher was also completly deaf, using a drum for the warm up as the children could feel the beat, it was so creative. Then seeing all the children humbal themselves in pray as one bot aroun13 prayed in Sign language. I'm already excited about going back to help there leaders in new games to do with there children time for me to read my books and learn.

My October 2010 Video Log

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Luke & Sam in Entebbe

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SHOWING REAL COMMITTMENT

You might have heard me talk about "Army of God Kawaala" before, being KSM latest project and one of the most challenging for the leaders due to the distances they have to walk to get from work to the project. They have just stepped up again keep surprising me more and more. From now on every other Thursday after work 5-6.30 i will be doing sports Coaching with them close to there church.

We started yesterday with 8 leaders out of 10 showing up which was a great start. Kicked of with them leading there own warm-up, i want them to get a sense of organisation so gave them the task of doing there own warm-up before each sports session so by the time i reach we can start sports straight away. We went into some individual and team tail games, then netball and ending in flag football.

Looking forwards to getting into some hockey, lacrosse and even tennis over the next couple weeks.

Lunyo Children’s Centre Entebbe

Lunyo children’s centre is based in Entebbe district. Lunyo has a primary school which holds 210 children who are ever orphans or very deprived children and is doing sports ever Wednesday and Friday from 9-10am with these children. Myself and Sam Oyirwoth KSM head volunteer went to check them out and see how KSM can further work with them. They have been using life-skills to teach the gospel to the children in the past and have great skills in teaching them through parachute games. Having 15 active sports leaders is a great starting block for me and my team to get stuck in. The Future is bright in Entebbe.

  

 

James Wald Returns

My good American friend is back in Uganda for a couple of weeks looking to the future for the missionary base up in North Uganda and a safari resort on the River Nile at Murchison Falls National park best in Uganda. It is great to have him back over here crashing at my flat. Always encourages me to see how God is using him, from the last time we met he had such a huge vision and now to see how God has just made it happen is amazing.

Testimonies of Key Volunteers

Jonah Okiru

Is the sports leader at Calvary Chapel Kampala, he has been working alongside me in a number of events throughout the year. Jonah started as a young enthusiastic boy and has grown into a strong leader pushing his boundaries to new level. Last CCK street kid’s sports outreach on 25^th September, the small Jonah lead with authority and stature when organizing his team and keeping the crazy rabble of street kids controlled. I have all the confidence that Jonah will be a huge part of KSM future.

Ezra Mwaugwo

Is the leader of AOGM which is under the care of Miss. Mable Tusabmu. Starting up the project has been hard for him as it is based around a small church with less than 40 people in attendance most of the leaders involved in the sports need to work very hard just to make enough money to survive. But Ezra has continued to flight to create a sports ministry through AOGM. Last Saturday 25^th September they had 10 leaders 150 children at there outreach proof of there continuing growth. (right side in picture).

Francis Natumanya

Is the leader of Child Evangelism Fellowship (in Mbarara District) a partner organization to KSM. He was trained by KSM in March and sense then has been leading the line of exceptional Sports Ministry. Francis is a great example of a leader who we have trained and is putting what he learnt into action.

KSM Leaders Meeting

28^th September KSM brought all signed leaders

from around the country together to evaluate 2010 so far and gather input on where the leaders think KSM should go in 2011. This was a successful event with leaders giving very valuable input into the future of KSM, stating how they would love such meeting to occur a few times in the year as it helped build solidarity and motivation in leaders sharing with each other.

Love Kampala Festival

Love Kampala Festival was an evangelism event headed by Andrew Palau a huge Evangelist from America. They came over to run a sports and Music Festival in the heart of Kampala. I was privileged to be called up to help in the sports ministry being made vise chairman of the committee and head of the sports gala We had two great events prior to the Festival, a sports gala in football, basketball, netball and volleyball with 32 teams and over 500 children and youth participating.

Secondly a dinner for the people in Uganda that have contributed to sports, from the nation football team the Cranes, the Minister of Education and Sport all the way down to the leaders of Christian Sports Charities. A wonderful event held at one of Uganda’s finest restaurants with 204 guests. (Me and Andre Palau Below)

Final the main festival itself running a mini soccer tournament for under 11’s and under 13’s great fun ended with some amazing Christian artists from around the world Papa San an RnB artist from Jamaica and Nicole C. Mullen the highlight. All the events had an evangelism aspect with Andrew Palau and a number of Christian world champion skate boarders and bmx’s giving there testimonies. Amazing to see thousands of people give there lives to Christ.

Since the Event i have stayed in good contact with Andrew Palau, we became friends throughout the Gala it surprised me how laidback he was. He invited me to be apart of a team next year that will be doing the same event in Burundi (east africa). I will just have to see how god guides me upto then.

Setta Sports Day

KSM was invited to Setta which is in between Kampala and Mukono districts to run a sports day for 800 children. The day

was ran by 28 leaders from 15 different church around Setta area involving praise and worship, dancing, teachings, food and two hours of sports. I had a team of 4 from different KSM projects and 1 other close friends of mine along for some fun. As we reached the venue the rain clowned came over so for the first 40 minutes we crammed into different class rooms and did chanting and games with blow-up balls not apart of the plan but worked well. Then once the rain stopped we broke the child up into 3 groups and did many different sports activities. Great fun and a wonderful experience.

Uganda vs. Angola African Cup of Nations Qualifier

 

  

Last Saturday 4^th of September I went with a bunch of people to watch the first African Cup of nation’s qualifier of the new season Uganda vs. Angola. A mixed crowd of Ugandans, English, Americas and Irish in a little group of 12. Most of us all geared up UG T-Shirts on faces painted ready for the big match. If I am honest o don’t remember much of it as we were blowing listens dancing with the locals and cheering most of the time, kind of forgot to match the match itself. Was a great Uganda won 3-0 yessssssssssss Cup of Nations here we come.

Army of God’s Ministries Steps-Up

He have been with AOGM for a number of months slow building up there project and training there leaders. The church is in a village setting and is based on the outskirts of Kampala; it is very small with a congregation of around 50. They have been holding sports outreaches the last Saturday of every month with around 50-70 children but decided to take it up a new level and invited two schools to participate in the sports giving them just under 150 children last month with 10 leaders. It has been a huge development as the leaders of AOGM have to travel a long way walking mostly from the town centre just to come to the project.

Fun down in Kivulu with the Street Boys

 

A good friend of mine Kate does a lot of work in Kivulu with all the street kids around that area. I have been down there just to give a hand a few times so much fun messing around with the boys all trying to beat me up, of course not succeeding all in the normal Sunday after church fun fun.

Scripture union August Camp

 

For KSM my passion is to see the leaders we train go and do us proud for the name of Jesus. Having trained the leaders of SU Kampala for the last 4 month they were ready to

Spice up August SU Children’s camp with sports. In the past they had just used sports as a fun activity with no emphasis on the bible. But for this camp we put in place a structured fun coaching schedule where the SU leader trained the children in three news sports, parachute, hockey and frisbee, also including treasure hunt, competition  day and indoor games throughout the week. At the end of each sports session we went into the bible time where the children sat down and the leaders shared the bible with a memory verse, skit and life application all relating to the life-skill topic of each day, teamwork, communication, time management & Friendship. The sit-down was full of life and enthusiasm keeping the children’s attention the whole time. It was by far the best camp I have been on in Uganda for sports ministry the leaders loved it got into it really well and made me so proud. We are looking forwards to future camps during the December period.

23rd Birthday Fun with Ryan Youtz

This year’s birthday is defiantly one I will never forget, started and ended in two different places. I was in the scripture union camp in the morning we had a great day of competition sports and bible time and yes the Ugandan tradition of soaking people on birthdays happened many times. Then I jumped on a taxi back to Kampala to meet up with the other birthday boy Ryan Youtzand a bunch of our friends from all walks of life. “Wonderful Day” Quote from Ryan Youtz.

St Stevens Sports Day's

 

During the middle of August St Stevens Kisugu had a team from the UK over to help run in mission they were doing. Part of the missions was a two day sports event. I jumped in to give some organization to the days which was great fun but strange working with whites again. Had around 100 children throughout doing lots of fun activities like rely race (african style), chanting fun plus lots of mini group games.

Scripture Union Jinja Camp

I went across to Jinja (the source of the river Nile) for the day to help out in a children and youth camp. Things started great as we set up the field and marked out the grounds only for 30 minutes into the day a huge fod and rainstorm came in I had never been in a situation where I couldn’t see the person I was stood next to was insane TIA (this is Africa).

World Cup Slums Outreach

The 2010 world cup in South Africa was always going to be a huge in Uganda. We linked up with a number of other Christian sports organization in Kampala under a children rights network called “CRANE” to pull off the outreach doing medical clinics, schools outreaches, soccer clinics, mini world cup, live screening of the world cup matches on big screens and even Christian movies at half time.

I created a handbook for the programs used in the leaders training before the project started, was in charge of running Kivulu Slums and also the main person running the UK team who came out to help us and sponsored the whole event. Staff Emmanuel was in charge of the accounting for the project and head of the Logistics committee.

With 4 KSM volunteers helping out during the whole event to. In total we reached thousands of children and adult for Jesus Christ. This was by far the hardest event I have ever been apart of, both physically and mentally but I am blessed to know that I had a huge part to play.