Browse Articles
Showing 1 – 7 of 7
ADRA Uganda is a registered NGO of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was registered with the government of Uganda on July 24, 1986, and effectively started working with the communities in 1987. Even though ADRA Uganda is an autonomous national NGO, it is part of the international ADRA network which was established in 1956 by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to respond to disaster relief needs and development needs in vulnerable communities and to address the ever-recurrent humanitarian needs at international and local levels.
Pastor Yekoyada Bamanya was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor from Bunyoro, western Uganda. He was one of the first graduates of Nhwanga Training School, which was the first Seventh-day Adventist school in Uganda.
Bugema University was chartered in 2009 by the Uganda government and is a Seventh-day Adventist Church institution of higher learning owned and operated by the Uganda Union Mission. It is located 30 kilometers north of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, on Gayaza-Zirobwe Road, in the Luwero District of Central Uganda. It is the largest Seventh-day Adventist school in Uganda.
Yowasi Mukirania was the first Mukonzo to train at Kamagambo for a Grade Three Teaching Course, and became one of the pioneer Bakonzo pastors in the Rwenzori mountains of Western Uganda.
Charles Mulhwahali was a pioneer gospel minister among the Bakonzo of the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda and an exemplary pastor and mentor.
The Bakonzo are part of the Bantu people who are found in East, Central and Southern Africa. They predominantly live around and on the slopes of Mount Rwenzori in western Uganda. From the establishment of Mitandi mission station in 1948 and the opening of formal primary education in 1953, Adventism has steadily grown in the Rwenzori Mountains. Today, the Adventist Church operates more than 60 primary schools and five secondary schools in Rwenzori.
Uganda is a landlocked country bordered by Kenya in the east, South Sudan in the north, Democratic Republic of the Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest, and Tanzania in the south. Uganda’s total land area is 241,559 sq km. About 37,000 sq km of this area is occupied by open water while the rest is land. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which it shares with Kenya and Tanzania.
East-Central Africa Division Uganda Country (Based on SDA membership)