Church of Uganda (COU) has launched the Daniel Mission Leadership Training Centre (DMLTC) in Lweza, Wakiso district to equip the youth with skills to carry out missionary work.

The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Grace the Most Rev. Dr Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, who officially unveiled the centre, said that it will strengthen and promote Christianity in the country. The centre will be run in association with a South Korean team.

The Daniel Mission Leadership Training Centre in Lweza, Wakiso district, has been inaugurated with a vision to produce “kingdom-minded new-generation leaders disciplined for the transformational mission.”

Here, youth, starting with senior six vacationists and others in employment, will be equipped with skills for missionary work, and their spirituality will also be strengthened.

The training centre will coordinate with churches across the country to recommend active youth church participants for further skilling in ministering the word of God.

The centre is one of the components under the Daniel Uganda Project (DUP) that is working in partnership with the Church of Uganda (COU) and the Oryun Community Church of South Korea.

The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Grace the Most Rev. Dr Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu, noted all services to be provided at the centre will be to promote Christianity.

The first batch of trainees who joined the mission training centre on 17th March 2023 has 50 people.

Rev. Robert Nabaasa, the Ankole Diocesan youth coordinator, recounted some of the benefits he has gotten from the centre.

Another, Milcah Namwatiko, who is under the children’s ministry, said that the opening of the centre will help in giving the tools required to spread Christianity.

Rev. Alex Abraham Bwambale, the coordinator of the Daniel Uganda Project (DUP) in the Church of Uganda, noted that senior six racists will be taught how to minister for over two months, university students will utilize their semester breaks, whereas employed youths will be trained for about two weeks while on leave.

The Archbishop urged other churches to join COU in prayer and fasting against immorality among the global youth from 29th to 31st March 2023.

Mary Prima Awor