Uganda church Building

 Did you know it takes about 12-14,000 bricks to build a village church in Uganda? The church members make those bricks, BY HAND, 2 at a time in a wood form. They are made out of mud which is dug from the ground (or from anthill dirt, which is very fine). The bricks are laid out and dried, then built into a huge stack with openings for a fire inside, perfectly stacked to bake correctly. (This is how bricks were made in the early 1900s in America before Acme Bricks came into being). Imagine doing all this by hand!!

One good thing we can do for churches is to help supply mortar and iron sheets to help them build their churches. Many churches are waiting for that building to enable them to meet for worship out of the rain or hot sunshine. It costs about $7000 to build a church in Uganda. (Town churches are usually larger to accomodate the hundreds of people who come so, of course, they cost more. The walls with the older stick church inside is a town church, Ebenezer, waiting on a roof).

This new church plant, Abila, has their land, and has made their bricks, in anticipation of their new building. The other church, Nazareth, is what a fully completed church looks like (missing only the wooden benches for people to crowd on to. Meanwhile they sit on the floor or mats if the floor is dirt).

Your Sunday School class, or church, or family might like to do a "building program" and build a church for people in Uganda! Check out our website at Partner135.org.

Church members make the bricks and wait for a Partner to come alongside them to build.

Ebenezer is waiting for a roof while they meet in the old, traditional stick church.

 Also when the government closed down all public gatherings in Uganda, the Uganda Christians invited people to their homes to read the Word of God and worship and 10, yes TEN, new churches were birthed out of the pandemic!!