Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study
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  Tuesday, November 27, 2007    
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Uganda
While the AIDS epidemic continues to take thousands of lives throughout Uganda, there is hope. In recent years, the Ugandan government built a coalition of government organizations, churches, and schools to educate people about AIDS, to offer relief to infected victims, and to enact measures that have helped slow the spread of the disease.

Although the rate of infection has slowed, many children have lost parents to AIDS. The Ugandan people continue to respond positively, often inviting orphaned nieces and nephews to live with them, but the need is still great.

Established in 2004, Amagara House is the children’s home for Juna Amagara (“saving life”) Ministries, which cares for the physical and spiritual needs of AIDS orphans in Uganda. The Outreach Foundation of the PC(USA) made Amagara House its 2006 vacation Bible school mission project.

Mauritius
Mauritius is a small, tropical island in the Indian Ocean, uninhabited until Europeans settled it in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The country remained an important port of call for ships sailing between Europe and Asia until the Suez Canal was completed in 1869. It was an independent parliamentary democracy in the British Commonwealth for almost twenty-five years before becoming independent in 1992. English is the official language, but the dominant language and culture are French.

The Presbyterian Church of Mauritius (PCM), which became autonomous in 1979, has about one thousand members in one English- and four French-speaking parishes. The Rev. France Cangy, former pastor of the St. Joseph congregation in Grand Gaube, is the moderator of the PCM. When the Rev. Cangy was pastor at St. Joseph, membership grew by 250 percent in five years.

 
             
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Partners/Ministries
Back to God Ministries-Uganda: Rev. Peterson Sozi, president • Uganda Joint Christian Council: Rev. Canon Grace Kaiso, executive secretary • Presbyterian Church of Mauritius (PCM): Rev. France Cangy, moderator, Rev. David White, president

PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
Rev. James A. Thomas
Martha E. Thomas
Bill Thomason

 
             
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  Prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed (1 Peter 1:13).  
             
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  Ps. 7, 12, 36, 146
Nah. 1:1–13
1 Peter 1:13–25; Matt. 19:13–22
 
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