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Sending a Jelley baby to Uganda

St Luke's church has agreed to support a family who will go to Uganda as Church Mission Society partners. They have a baby son.

Oscar Jelley (born in September 2000) is the youngest member of Crowther Hall, Birmingham, the college which trains CMS partners for mission. After Easter he and his parents will be travelling to Uganda Christian University, where Chris his father is to head up the Business and IT department*.

St Luke’s Eccleshill is a special place in for Oscar’s parents Chris and Sophie. Chris became a Christian here in January 1994, and Sophie (then Sophie Capitanchik) was a member of our congregation. In that same year Sophie was considering ordination, and it was our church which supported her in going to ABM (the Advisory Board for Ministry) in May – ABM is the body which interviews candidates for the church’s ministry and advises bishops whether or not to train them. Sophie and Chris were married here in September 1994, and also returned in the summer of 1996 to run a holiday club with a team from our church, held in the school hall.

Since then, Chris has completed an engineering doctorate in applied mathematics and business at Cranfield University (in 1997), and worked as Technical Coordinator for a national disability charity, developing new software and computer- aided techniques for the production of clothes for disabled people.

Meanwhile, Sophie has trained for the Church of England’s ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and has also completed a Master of Philosophy degree at the university there (in 1997). She then became assistant curate at St Peter’s Church, Shipley, until last summer.

Uganda Christian University was originally a college for training pastors for the church, but it has recently broadened its work, partly to offer a Christian alternative to the other “faith” universities in Uganda. Chris and Sophie will both be involved in helping people to understand and teach the Christian faith: Chris will have particular responsibility for one of the newer departments of the university, and Sophie will be involved in preaching and pastoral work as well as looking after Oscar.

Our agreement with CMS to support the Jelleys officially means that we undertake to write regularly, to pray for them in our services as well as in private, to give money regularly (because the University cannot fund their whole salary itself), and to take the trouble to learn about Uganda so that we can understand their situation. We might also try to organise visits! Chris and Sophie will be our agents for telling others about Jesus overseas.

John Hartley

* In fact Chris is Director of University Computer Services at Uganda Christian University - sorry for the inaccuracy in the original article.

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Home Page. Index of articles. Missionaries: index, Jelley Baby, African Time. CMS, UCU. In this issue: (January 2001) Vicar's Letter, Read the bible? Question, Quiz answers, Jelley baby.	Sending a Jelley baby to Uganda St Luke's church has agreed to support a family who will go to Uganda as Church Mission Society partners. They have a baby son. Oscar Jelley (born in September 2000) is the youngest member of Crowther Hall, Birmingham, the college which trains CMS partners for mission. After Easter he and his parents will be travelling to Uganda Christian University, where Chris his father is to head up the Business and IT department. St Luke’s Eccleshill is a special place in for Oscar’s parents Chris and Sophie. Chris became a Christian here in January 1994, and Sophie (then Sophie Capitanchik) was a member of our congregation. In that same year Sophie was considering ordination, and it was our church which supported her in going to ABM (the Advisory Board for Ministry) in May – ABM is the body which interviews candidates for the church’s ministry and advises bishops whether or not to train them. Sophie and Chris were married here in September 1994, and also returned in the summer of 1996 to run a holiday club with a team from our church, held in the school hall. Since then, Chris has completed an engineering doctorate in applied mathematics and business at Cranfield University (in 1997), and worked as Technical Coordinator for a national disability charity, developing new software and computer- aided techniques for the production of clothes for disabled people. Meanwhile, Sophie has trained for the Church of England’s ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and has also completed a Master of Philosophy degree at the university there (in 1997). She then became assistant curate at St Peter’s Church, Shipley, until last summer. Uganda Christian University was originally a college for training pastors for the church, but it has recently broadened its work, partly to offer a Christian alternative to the other “faith” universities in Uganda. Chris and Sophie will both be involved in helping people to understand and teach the Christian faith: Chris will have particular responsibility for one of the newer departments of the university, and Sophie will be involved in preaching and pastoral work as well as looking after Oscar. Our agreement with CMS to support the Jelleys officially means that we undertake to write regularly, to pray for them in our services as well as in private, to give money regularly (because the University cannot fund their whole salary itself), and to take the trouble to learn about Uganda so that we can understand their situation. We might also try to organise visits! Chris and Sophie will be our agents for telling others about Jesus overseas. John Hartley In fact Chris is Director of University Computer Services at Uganda Christian University - sorry for the inaccuracy in the original article.
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