80% of Uganda is engaged in agriculture. The healthy economy of the 1960s was crippled in 1972 by the expulsion of the Asian business community, and then virtually destroyed by tyranny and wars. It has steadily improved since 1992. Under previous government regimes there were restrictions on persecuted Christians, but there is now freedom of religion.
In 1918, as a group of AIM missionaries made their way to Congo from Kenya, they were held up in Uganda waiting for one of their members to recover from severe sickness. Whilst there the Church Mission Society (CMS) asked them to help feed those facing starvation during a famine that year as CMS had a shortage of personnel. Following this, the group was then asked to stay and help reach out to the people west of the Nile, where CMS were yet to share the love of Jesus.
So, AIM settled in Arua and baptised the first 26 new believers. Although the church in that area got off to a slow start, 40 years later, thousands had been baptised, hundreds of churches were in existence, and Ugandan Christians were being ordained as pastors in the West Nile area.
Now, in the 21st century, a 2002 census showed that approximately 80% of the country’s population said they were Christian. As a result, the work of AIM is directed towards encouraging believers to live their whole lives in a biblical way. We work together to share the love of God with those we come across and look to engage the unreached within Uganda, in neighbouring countries and throughout the world. Those who come to work with AIM in Uganda do so alongside Ugandans in many different situations, from youth work to hospital work, schools, hospitals, orphanages, businesses and farms.
I oversee the Finance and Sustainability Department of Dwelling Places, a Ugandan Christian NGO dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, reconciliation and resettlement of street children. My passion is for the children come to to know the love of their Heavenly Father and his care personally. I am using my skills as an accountant to help develop good financial management, which will enable Dwelling Places to reach these vulnerable children.
I am an eye surgeon working in Uganda for 50 years working at Ruharo Eye Hospital, Mbarara. We major on training eye workers at all levels up to specialist doctors. My team travels widely to serve outlying areas including South Sudan. I head a program treating children with eye cancer which is saving their lives now. Away from work I am surrounded by a large warm family of disadvantaged youngsters, orphans, visually impaired and others; with care and education they become useful citizens.
We work at Mbarara University & Referral Hospital. Nerina researches and teaches in the Biochemistry Department; Derek is helping improve the Accident & Emergency service.
James, Claire and their daughters Ruby, Jessica and Florence served with AIM in Kampala, Uganda,
Between 2011 – 2016 Lyn worked with the Church of Uganda in discipling, supporting and
Mission partners’ lives are lived between the two worlds of their home culture and the
