Youth & Children

Youth and Children Ministry

The Youth and Children Ministry in the Diocese of Kajo-keji works with the youth and children in the churches and Schools within the operation area of the Diocese. It operates under the Department of Missions and Outreach. The Youth and Children Ministry in the diocese of Kajo-keji work is driven by its Vision, Mission and Goals;

Vision:

To see active youth and children who use their God given gifts for the holistic growth of the Church and the community in Kajo-keji.

Mission:

To reach youth and children with the gospel of Christ and disciple them through holistic ministry by.

Helping them to identify and develop their God given gifts/talents.
Facilitate them to take up their rightful positions in the Church and Community.

Evangelism through door-to-door and open air preaching;

We conduct youth week of witness annually where youths go out to homes and market places to share the good news of Salvation through Jesus Christ.

**An Open air Preaching during Youth outreach**

**Youth missioners sharing the gospel with a family**

Children Ministry

We train Sunday schools teachers and organize children camps and rallies to evangelize the young children.

**Sunday School Children Listening to their teacher**

Youth groups and Ministries

Encouraging the youth in all levels to have ministry oriented groups to reach out to the young people with the gospel of Salvation through Jesus Christ and disciple them. E.g. in the Easter of 2016, Bishop Anthony commissioned a group initially called Bishop’s Choir (BC) – now Fountain of Life Youth Ministry (FoLYM). FoLYM and other youth groups in the Churches and the Archdeaconries work greatly towards the realization of the youth and Children ministry Vision.

**Bishop’s Choir posed for a photo at Emmanuel cathedral – 2016**

Games and Sports

We engage the youths in the Zones in Palorinya Refugee settlement on games and sports to make them busy, develop their talents, and share biblical lessons with them.

**Bishop Emmanuel with football Players 2018**

**Youth and Children Coordinator with players before beginning of a game in 2019**

Convention and Conferences

Organizing convention once in three years and annual/quarterly conferences for the youth has been our focus. Through this we have shared the word of God and Christian values lessons with a big number of both old and young people in the Diocese.

**Over 5 thousand youths attending a youth convention – 2020**

Youth Empowerment

We started a vocational training program for drop out youths. In this program, we give basic vocational skills with biblical/Christian values to prepare the young people to cope up with life and become self-supportive. We also have youth groups that grow vegetables to raise money to run their activities.

**Bishop Emmanuel Launching a Youth vocational skill training program – 2019**

**10 youth vocational skill training – 2021**

The Multi-Purpose Youth Centre

We established a center for the youth were training, meetings, workshops, conferences etc are conducted. This centre is currently located at Macedonia ECS Church, Morobi Zone II, Palorinya Refugee settlement Obongi District Uganda.

Participation in global Youth Ministry initiatives

The youth and Children ministry of the Diocese of Kajo-keji has participate in a Youth ministry Conference organized by GZB-Netherlands for three (3) years 2017, 2018, and 2019. Lots of experiences on youth and children work are shared with the aim of making churches become child friendly.