An opportunity to help Christ Our Refuge Church, in Kamapla, Uganda, host a Worship Conference & Workshop focusing on contemporary American and East Africa styles of worship music.

OUR PARTNER
Christ Our Refuge Church and Pastor Ben Church

OUR PROJECT
1) equipping church music leaders, singers and musicians to serve skillfully and build up the body of Christ
2) Grow in knowledge/ability to play different styles (particularly western contemporary and East African contemporary)
3) Grow in knowledge of biblical worship and ability to plan, arrange and lead in the musical aspects of biblical worship.

The time will broadly be divided into 4 days of training, workshops, and practice, followed by one day with a concert/music gala/worship where we invite folks to come as we perform what we’ve learned throughout the week. Each day we will spend time in training in specific areas of singing and instrumentation. We will also have times of joint practice going through group dynamics and handling different songs and styles. We will host a workshop that is focused biblical / reformed worship, how music fits into that, and go into the implications for how we choose songs, write songs, and arrange them in the worship service. The SPC Team will provide training in the western contemporary style songs, including few hymns, and biblical workshop.

PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS
Team Size: 6
Location: Christ Our Refuge Church in Kampala, Uganda
Departure Date: May 8, 2023
Return Date: May 15, 2023
Estimated Per-person Cost: $3,000
Qualifications: Teachers and musicians

ABOUT BEN & KIM CHURCH
Ben and Kim have a passion to see Christ glorified through the planting, strengthening, and multiplication of biblically healthy churches and presbyteries. They began planting Christ Our Refuge Church in southern Kampala, Uganda, in late 2017, and the congregation began public worship at the end of 2018. Christ Our Refuge is a member congregation of the Reformation Church in East Africa (RCEA), a new Reformed and Presbyterian denomination focused on the training, ordination, and sending of Ugandan teaching elders, church planters, and evangelists, which will be a crucial part of gospel reformation in Uganda and East Africa. In addition to being the organizing pastor of Christ Our Refuge Church, Ben also currently serves as the chairman of the church planting committee of the Uganda Presbytery of the RCEA. Kim serves in the women’s and children’s ministries of Christ Our Refuge, is a registered nurse, and is studying for her master’s to become a nurse practitioner to better serve the health of the church’s community. The Church family has been ministering in Uganda with MTW since 2013.

ABOUT CHRIST OUR REFUGE CHURCH
In 2018, a group of people on the south side of Kampala, Uganda began a community Bible study on the Gospel of Mark and started to discover the grace and truth that comes through Jesus Christ. Even though most came from some kind of church background, the gospel had been hidden behind cultural Christianity on the one extreme and the health, wealth and prosperity false-gospel on the other. They began worshiping publicly on Sundays as Christ Our Refuge Church in the neighborhood of Katale. Their vision is to be a family of faith that makes disciples of Jesus Christ. In a context where 85% of people claim to be Christian, but likely less than 10% have a faith that is rooted in Scripture and the basic truths of the gospel, they emphasize the right preaching and teaching of God’s Word as the foundation for life and godliness. In a context of a diversity of people groups and languages, they strive to display the unifying power of the gospel through welcoming people from all backgrounds and have six different tribes represented in their members. In a context of extreme economic difficulty, they are intentional to extend the love of Christ in deed as well as word to each other and the surrounding community. Christ Our Refuge is a member congregation of the Reformation Church in East Africa, which longs to see the Kingdom of God spread through the planting of healthy, gospel-driven congregations and presbyteries in every country of East Africa.