Reaching the Needy

There Mission is to restore the self image of girls affected by sexual exploitation and empower them for personal and community transformation.

I got involved with them through a connection to there staff, who invited me to come and introduce to the sports Ministry. On reaching the Centre i found a large compound and home for 15 girls aged 17-20. And met the 4 leaders who where excited about being trained. You know somtimes when you go to a place with little expectations and then just get blown away, thats exactly what happened.

Over the past week and two sports session later the 4 leaders have taken over, they applied for the equipment loan scheme and have now started using our equipment for the games. Looking fowards to my next session on Tuesday next week, and see what the leaders have got planned for us to do. The door has been opened.

2011 Fundraising Going Well

 £808 TO GO

£808 TO GO. So Far i have (7/21) friends to sponsor me
Still Need - (14 friends) x (£10 per month) x (6 months) = £840
Message me if you fancy being one of my sponsors 

2011 On The Road

Sports Ministry Trainings

Five Districts to Train

Five Weekends to Travel

250 Leaders to Inhance

Sports Ministry to Spread all over Uganda

2011 will be a huge for KSM and it is all starting with some exciting trainings around the country in 5 different locations, hoping to train 250 leaders and enhance around 20 projects with new skills that will help them move to the next level.

Fund Raising By the End of 2010

TIME TO REACH OUT IN FAITH

£1,258

STILL TO RISE FOR 2011

Here is the plan?

. (21 friends) x (£10 per month) x (6 months) = £1260

I am reaching out in faith that i can get 21 of my friends to sponsor me £10 per months for 6 months Jan-June 2011.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. LET ME KNOW ASAP IF YOU UP FOR BEING ONE OF MY SPONSORS

Full Gospel Church Football Team

A call from a old friend who is a youth Pr at full Gospel Church Makerere about a bunch of youth who need a coach and my ears started to tingle. I have never been into coaching youth football teams but was excited about the challenge over the Christmas period with a match in early January 2011. over the last two weeks and 4 training session later and they are looking more like a team young in age 16-18 but with some real skill. Should be an interesting year to see if I can really improve this team enough to compete against some of the bigger teams around.

Final Entebbe Visit 2010

Lunyo Children's Centre has been such an exciting project which came about during the final months of 2010 and I felt it was so important to give them a boost going into 2011. Also a great opportunity to bring Ezra from KSM Kawaala along with me. For some more experience and a well deserved treat after a hard working year. We Got down there and had a fun 2 hour sports coaching session with 10 of their leaders. Great to see some of the girls come out and as always their leader Christine full involved.

We left them with a bunch of sports equipment using our loan scheme which I feel was a huge encouragement for them and know ministry will be carrying on even over the Christmas time. 2011 will be a huge year for them not just in establishing their ministry but helping to establish Entebbe as a huge area for sports ministry.

Christmas Partys Begin

Crane / Making a Difference

During the world cup KSM worked under viva Crance a children rights organisation who where funded by Making a Difference from the UK. Well some of the m.a.d. team came back out to celberate get invovled in the Crane christmas parties and i was invited along to give a helping hand in the area of sports. Was great fun of course around 200 kids playing sports in a indoor hall and a 30 degree grass sloping hill true Uganda style.

Pantomime and Christmas Cantata

You may well think that a Pantomime called Shrekerella is not for a grown man like myself but you will be wrong. Having some fun outside of my busy working schedule to see my first Panto and i have to say the three hours i sat there where full of pure entertainment.

Watoto Church is now getting into the Christmas season the past weekend with the Children's Cantata based on The Tale of Three Kings, fantastic show and much looking forwards to the Adults version next week.

THE MONEY IS SLOWLY STARTING TO COME

GOING AMAZING GUYS £788 ALREADY RAISED

Well one third of the way there £1488 still to rise for my final 6 months of Uganda in 2011.

Check out My Pyramid of fund so far to keep up to date on what is still to rise.

REMEMBER 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)

THE SURGERY

Illness in Uganda

For the past week and half i have been down ill.

This wasn’t the best of timing as it was leading up to the final Scripture Union Camp of the year which i ended up missing. I became ill enough that i made myself seek medical help first at a local surgery and was wrongly diagnosed with everyone’s favourite Malaria. Then after another 4 -5 days without improvement went to a place they call "The Surgery". Lead by Dr. RJ Stockley (British) at midnight with the help of Kate went down to "The Surgery" and found a fantastic Ugandan doctor who diagnosed me in about 5 minutes with severe Dehydration (which probably sounds a lot worse than it really is). So for the next 3 hours having three drips put through my system and Kate by my side final left and headed back home to wake up the next day feeling much better.

BIG THANK YOU TO

"THE SURGERY"

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.

PLEASE DONATE TO ME SO I CAN FINISH UGANDA IN STYLE

PLEASE DONATE TO ME AT JUST GIVING:


£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.