Church Planting Conference due in Lira 9th to 10th December 2010.

Dear Friends,

I wish to information you that the Ministry of Church Planting/Extension is planning a Church Planters Conference in Lira District in December 9th - 10th 2010. We expect to have participants from Lango Region and part of the Acholi Land.

Lira is a district in Lango sub-region in northern Uganda. Like other Ugandan districts, it is named after its 'chief town', Lira town. The majority ethnic group is the Lango. Long untouched by the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency ravaging Kitgum and Pader district just north of the district border, the increased violence of 2002 resulted in massive population displacement within the district.
Until 2005, Lira district comprised six counties; Erute, Dokolo, Kyoga, Otuke, Moroto and Lira Municipality. These were further subdivided into 28 sub-counties. Of the 28 sub-counties, four are Municipal Divisions. There are a total of 192 parishes with 2,247 villages.

Today, with the creation of 2 new districts in 2005, Lira is made up of 5 separate counties; Erute North, Erute South, Otuke, Moroto, and Lira Municipality.
In 2006-07, Lira experienced a massive return of IDP's (Internally Displaced Persons). Over 310,000 of the estimated 350,000 left camps to return to home villages in a period of 14 months.

Currently the situation is relatively peaceful.

On October 11, 2010, a three man team will travel to Lira to meet with the NFBPC leaders in Lango Region and part of the Acholi Land. The Team will get there in the evening. The meeting with the NFBPC leaders will take place October 12, 2010 in the morning. After that meeting, the team will return to Kampala.

We kindly request you to pray for this important meeting. At the end of next week, we will post the details of the Conference.

Yours in the Lord’s work,

Rev. Fred Semazzi
Minister

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Apostle Alex Mitala, Pr. Joshua Lwere, and Ev.Fredrick Ssemazi April Church planting