We are excited to announce that we have partnered with a seminary in Jinja, Uganda called Global Theological Seminary (GTS). As you may recall, our mission is to empower individuals and organizations in Uganda to meet their needs in culturally relevant and sustainable ways. The primary means by which we accomplish this is through discipleship, vocational training, business training, and leadership training. GTS desired to add vocational training and business training to their curriculum by adding a week to each of their quarterly four week training sessions. During this week we will equip their 55-70 students with small engine repair training, farming training, and business training. Each student is in seminary for 3 years, so they will get 12 weeks of training by the time they graduate.

As you may recall, our goal is to create a vocational training program that will begin in February of 2015 called Vocare Ministries. Vocare will be a year long training program where students are first discipled, then equipped with two vocations, and finally trained on how to run a business. The initial vocations will be small engine repair and farming so that we can piggy back on the training we are doing with GTS.

I’m very excited to be able to train these students at GTS because most of them are pastors from all over East Africa. As icing on the cake, GTS will be allowing us to use their dormitories, latrines, showers, kitchen, and classrooms for our Vocare students! This means that we can begin our training right away without the need to build our own buildings on the land we are purchasing. Eventually, we will want our own facilities, but this meets our needs at the moment.

It is so awesome to watch God work out all of these details and partnerships. God is good, all the time!