Campus News

Before leaving for Uganda on Oct 9, I've had the privilege of at least visiting a few campuses and hearing what our dreams are for our campuses and our futures as a result of the Internship.

Here are some recent posts from your partners:

Teresa of UMaine

I'm hoping to set up a table to sell coffee at a few morning classes and taking the profit to buy a stethoscope(s) for the CVI clinic.  Hopefully the coffee will be fair trade and people will pay whatever they normally pay for their morning coffee!

Meredith at Brown University

Back at Brown..I have joined the Uganda Action Movement group on campus (as the 6th member( and am hoping to infuse some new life to it.  I'm planning to create a photo gallery that can be installed at Brown Hillel in November which has a space that rotates.  The president of the group works there and has some connections.  Along with the gallery, I might potentially sell some of the bead necklaces made by the women at Come Lets Dance.

I'm also looking into doing a shoe drive for black shoes that I can give to CLD when I study abroad in Uganda and Rwanda next semester (God willing- I haven't' been accepted yet).

I am also dreaming big and looking into the possibility of Betty Bigombe speaking and Brown.  But that's just a thought I had last week, so we'll see.

Ken at MIT

As far as bringing Uganda back to campus, the beer bottle collection didn't really pan out.  We tried it for a little bit but found that nobody was really motivated enough to make it sustainable.  I realized that I could do it, but that kinda defeats the point of trying to get others involved.  Instead, I think the biggest way I'm bringing it back is through my fellowship.  I'm on the exec team for it, and we've been focusing a lot on this idea of a bigger gospel - how Jesus calls us to actually go out and advance the kingdom, as opposed to a one time decision of accepting Christ.  We're still kinda in process of forming that foundation, but we hope to begin talking about broader applications, such as missions work, social justice, racial reconciliation, and the like.  Maybe the biggest change though has come through evangelism.  Continuing this idea of a bigger gospel, we've been trying to take more of an approach of "oh, you're really passionate about women's rights? (or whatever)  So is Jesus"  (that was a gross over-simplification, but the idea is everyone is doing something that advances the kingdom, we just need to show them that.)  It's sparked some very interesting conversations, and looks like it got a seeker committed to coming to a Bible Study and Large Groups.