I wanted to share some exciting news with you about our ministry in Uganda. As you may be aware, we have a 501c3 nonprofit corporation called Heart for Uganda that provides oversight for our ministry. The next step for us is to create an organization in Uganda called a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) so that we can operate as an organization on this side of the world. We attempted to register Heart for Uganda here, but there was a Hearts and Hands Uganda and the Ministry of Registration thought those names were too close together.

Because of this denial, we needed to come up with a new name for our organization in Uganda. I feel like this was really a blessing in disguise. Let me explain… Heart for Uganda works great back home because it is an organization that has a heart for Uganda. When creating our vocational school, I’m not sure Heart for Uganda tells anyone in Uganda what we are actually doing here.

I struggled with this problem for a while until a friend invited me to meet him for lunch and told me that I needed to call our organization Vocare. He didn’t know about our denial of the name Heart for Uganda. He didn’t know I was struggling for a different name, but felt led to share Vocare with me.

Timothy Keller wrote a book about vocations called “Every Good Endeavor”. In this book, he said, “one of the hopes for our unraveling society is the recovery of the idea that all human work is not merely a job but a calling. The Latin word  vocare  — to call — is at the root of our common word “vocation.” Today the word often means simply a job, but that was not the original sense. A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it and you do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person and undermines society itself.”

We decided to call our ministry Vocare Ministries LTD because we seek to help men find their calling and to seek a mission of service to something beyond fulfilling their own interests.

You can check out Vocare Ministries’ website at www.vocareministries.com.

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