Christian Fire Brigade.

We are begining an evangelist push for the Fort Portal church Christ. We have the pieces of land that we are preparing. The tent is on its way with four hundred metal folding chairs.
We plan to open the church in Kagote in February 2007.
This last year I began doing research for my masters thesis. One portion of my thesis deals with "what are the expectations that people in Fort Portal have about church?". We learned so much from the focus groups and the two hundred plus interviews. From all that we learned we decided that we should reach out to the community in a way that meets a real need. We also wanted to reach out in a way that no one else doing. There is strong desire here that churches be involved in "projects". We decided to look for a project that would not directly benefit us (Many projects become actually a source of income for the church.)
Well out of all that we came up with a dream. We want to start a Christian Fire Department! In this blog I am not going to outline all that went into this decision. It is a real need there was an primary (elementary) muslim boarding school that caught on fire. Many children died in the fire.
There have been a number of fires.
We were given our first fire truck from a volunteer fire department outside of Tyler. There was media coverage when they gave the truck.
We are so excited. All of the district leaders here in Fort Portal cannot wait for the truck to get here.
We are trying to raise the funds needed to ship the fire truck here.