CHECK OUT MY FUND RAISING CHART FOR 2011

In total I need (£2,276) from sponsors

COULD YOU SPONSOR ME MONTHLY: £5, £10, £20......

This is to cover:

• Living Costs, food, rent…
• Malaria Tabs
• Health Insurance
• Flight Home
• Botswana Learning Trip
• Some money for fun
• Sponsorship of an Assistant Outreach Co-coordinator to work along side me for my final 6 months.

You Can Donate To Me Ever By:

1. http://www.justgiving.com/Luke-Cheeseman

2. You can send to my UK Address: (27, Green Fold, Gorton, Manchester, M188RJ)

St Francis Chapel Final Sports Sunday of 2010

Over the last year St Francis Chapel has become a force to recon with when it comes to Hold Sports Sunday. Once in a Qtr their Sunday school goes sports crazy where they gather the children and go through the KSM model. Of course in all projects there are adjustments St Francis doesn’t have a huge space which is a viable for sports but have a small grass area and a huge indoor hall. They started with around 350 children and have massively increased with this past Sunday 500 children over the three services amazing. Last Sunday we had great fun, they gave me football to teach at the 11am service with around 40 kids which u can see above.


Planning to do some coaching with their 20 strong team of volunteers early next year to equip them in new games they can do with their children. Exciting times.

Thanks Giving 2010

Thanksgiving was a holiday to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships ( wikapidia).

As a true half blood America i have always been found of the triditional American holiday which is this thursday 25th Nov (i think lol). A few peeps were busy this Thursday so we decided to hold it last Saturday at a full blood Americans house. In true Ugandan style it was only right that us American gather togther and celebrate this with the triditional Turkey (thanks to Ryan and his Popps) mashed potatos, vege, gravy sodas and more (from the host brandie) and fruit and dessert from myself and and the rest of the peeps. happy to say there was also some N Irish and four ugandans joing us Americans. Was a great evening lookforwards to it again next year.

World Vision & Compassion Internation Partnership Proposals

 

Blog & Donation update:, world vision and compassion International partnerships, thanks giving, St Francis, update finances so far, create pyramid


I have been give the amazing task of drawing up 7 page Partnership Proposals for both World Vision & Compassion International. Both organisations are huge in Uganda and do some fantastic work with thousands of children all across Uganda. My hope is by partnering with such organisations in the area of sports we can boost our work 10 fold.

The aim is to train equip and build up sports ministry projects with all ready established bases that both world vision and compassion international have. As they are strong in the areas of teaching and developing children these projects would be hugely sustainable and effective in the long run.

KSM is already working with some Compassion projects which are going well so we hope to be able to expand throughout Kampala and Central districts with sports Ministry.

Please pray for these proposals that favour will fall upon them as we look at which direction to go next.

P.A. SYSTEM: NEW PLAN

So we have had a Income generating scheme the P.A. System for quite some time now and has been a strong to get into the market as it has become a popular thing and competition is tough.


Time for a new plan:

Our P.A. System marketing officer Sam Oyirwoth some of you might know hi also is the head of volunteers in KSM have worked on a new plan. Along with great advice from our board and country director Emmanuel, Sam is holding a promotional offer for the next two months. Hiring the whole P.A. System out for 150,000 shillings per day. He has been venturing around to 10 hotels and church's to build partnerships with them, so if they have any functions, weddings, wedding meeting (basically where people raise support for their wedding) ect... the hotels or church's can tell the clients they have a P.A. System to hire MEANING KSM.

The idea sounds good we just need to make sure we get out there fast and strong, sell the idea and get our selves know. Please pray with us as we try to reach out to places with this deal in order to raise money for KSM.

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£2285 – To Raise

Well heading into the final 7 months of my time in Uganda now. Beginning of July 2011 I will be coming back to England. It will have been just under 3 years in Uganda for me and I feel God is telling me it’s time for my next challenge. Uganda will always be on my heart and to all those I work with here I will be back.

Firstly I just want to say a huge thank you to all of you who has supported me in finance and prayer over the last two years. From January I have 6 months left and I want to leave Uganda in style I have huge plans for next year but this all depends on the sponsorship funds I am able to raise. So many of you have given to me and for that I am so thankful friends, family and huge help from Preston Church 4 You who have supported me the whole time. King’s Foundation my UK based organization is again willing to match all the funding I receive.

In total from sponsors I need: £2,276

This is to cover:

• Living Costs, food, rent…

• Malaria Tabs

• Health Insurance

• Flight Home

• Botswana Learning Trip

• Some money for fun

• Sponsorship of an Assistant Outreach Co-coordinator to work along side me for my final 6 months.

You Can Donate To Me Ever By:

1. http://www.justgiving.com/Luke-Cheeseman

2. You can send to my UK Address: (27, Green Fold, Gorton, Manchester,

M188RJ)

I am really looking for people who would be up for sponsoring me month £5, £10, £20 each month to be able to hit my target. Please let me know if you feel you can help me in my final 6 months.

Rain, Lacrosse & a Small Church

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterdays coaching session at KSM Kawaala was very interesting. It started to rain on my way there so had to hide under a petrol station until it stopped on reaching the church (picture above) no one was there yet due to the rain lol. Around 30 minutes latter 6 of the leaders turn up fighting the rain. The door was open and we played lacrosse in a tiny dark Village style church "love it" much fun, except for the amount of balls that hit my face due to a all round lack of skill and i was suppost to be the coach lol

 

That is defiantly what we call adapting sports to the environment Yessssssssssssssss.

 

 

JUST OVER 7 MONTHS LEFT IN UGANDA

Well its official July 2011 i will be coming back home to England. I will have spent 3 years in Uganda by that point and i feel God is leading my back to England. Please keep me in your Prayers as i look for where god is leading me next.

Project Leaders Training and AGM

The 2nd & 3rd of November we had a great time during our Project Leaders Training and AGM.

Project Leaders Training

KSM has now 15 Project leaders and once again it was the time of year to bring them all together in Kampala to empower them further in Sports Ministry. The training last over two days with both presentations and sports coaching being applied. Was great to have new faces added to the team from around the country. Myself, Emmanuel, Richard & Matt all lead different parts of the training which was great for the leaders to get teachings from a variety of people. Also great for the project leaders as they all slept at the same hotel so got to spend time with each other here each other stories and learn from the different experience.



Annual General Meeting

 

Once in the year comea around our AGM a time for us to reflect on the past year and look to the future. Was a great oppertunity for the volunteers to share with the leadershhip of KF & KSM plus the KSM board all that has been happening with them throughout the past year. Plus for use all to here from Richard Homes the KF Director

Massive thankyou to the KSM Staff for working so hard to make these two days work so well.



Banunule Primary Schools Outreach

Monday 1st october was a key date in the KSM calender as the arrival of Richard Holmes KF overall Director and Matt Lowen the KF Country Director of Botswana.

Once a year they make there way over to Uganda to be apart of the KSM annual AGM and Project Leaders Training.

We kicked off ther week Monday after noon when we visited Banunule Primary School. Sam Oyiwoth KSM Head Volunteer is a chaplin of the school and his been doing Sports Ministry with them for the past 6 months on a basic level. Sam invited us to go visit the school and get an idea of what they are doing. Ieven got to jump in on the action and do some coaching myself.

KSM Kawala Just Grows and Grows

                               Do you remember this guy?

"UK Mr Motivator"                                "Uganda Mr Motivator"

This past Saturday I had the chance to get to two outreach projects. In the morning was KSM Calvary Chapel, which as usual was doing great these days it is no longer me giving instructions but the leaders of the project to me what to do :). Then in the afternoon I headed to KSM Kawaala, on reaching the church the 10 leaders were already doing final preparations (which is great as they usually wait for me) wonderful to see them taking the initiative. We reached the field to where there were 125 children from two different schools and the community were waiting. This was also my first time to see the “UG Mr Motivator” in action a nicknamed I gave him due to his fantastic aerobic style warm-up, enthusiasm and canny look a like of the guy himself.

The children broke up into groups playing netball, football and parachute then ending with a fun lively sit-down on Obeying God. KSM Kawaala has grown massively over the past 3 months but they want to grow even more, so every other Thursday of the month I head over to Kawaala after work to equip them in more coaching and life-skills knowledge. Kawaala also has huge plans drawn up already for 2011 cant wait.

Take a look at the video below to see more of Saturday’s projects and Mr Motivator.

                                      "VIDEO HERE"

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              AND HERE MORE FROM "UG MR MOTIVATOR"

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.