Departments

Adventist Men

Adventist Men Organization has been established primarily to promote programmes and activities designed to foster the spiritual, intellectual, social, moral, health and physical well-being of students, working class, businessmen, professional men etc., to give them opportunities to understand the responsibilities of Adventist men and to engage them in evangelistic activities. Mission: To provide spiritual strength…

Adventurer Club

Purpose Statement SDA Church Jinja Central Adventurers’ club exists to tell good stories about Jesus to children between ages 4 – 9 years in Jinja and its surrounding, invite them to grow to be like Jesus, play with other children, training them to share in order to show their love for Jesus. Pledge Because Jesus…

Ambassador Club

Mission Statement The Ambassador Group is an organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church dedicated to meeting the spiritual, social, and lifestyle needs of youth ages 16-20’s by challenging them to experiencing and sharing a personal relationship with Christ, developing a lifestyle fitting their belief system and vocational interest, and providing them with an adequate venue…

Camp Meeting

The  yearly camp meeting is one of the most farsighted and important programs of our entire denominational pattern. It is humanly impossible to measure the tremendous benefits that our people derive from these yearly convocations. It is likewise impossible to fully measure the strength that the denomination as a whole receives from these annual gatherings.…

Children Ministries

The Children’s Ministries Department seeks to develop the faith of children from birth through age fourteen, leading them into a loving, serving relationship with Jesus and a commitment to the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Communication

“Building bridges of hope” is the mission statement of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Communication Department. We work toward this goal by reaching out to diverse church audiences — both internally and externally — through many avenues of communication (phone apps, websites, social media channels, video programming and gaming fused with news reporting and press releases).

Community Service

Mission Statement: To motivate, equip, and mobilize Church members to meet unconditionally the expressed needs of people around them, thus fostering a trust relationship between Adventist Churches and their surrounding communities, and nurturing people toward a restored, abundant life in Jesus (MH 17:1; John 10:10). Vision Statement: To be a transforming agent in the community, following…

Deaconry

 The Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual lists the following duties for deaconates: (1) assistance at services and meetings, (2) visitation of members, (3) preparation for baptismal services, (4) assistance at the Communion service, (5) care of the sick and aiding the poor and unfortunate, and (6) care and maintenance of Church property.

Education

The Education Department is responsible for the supervision, coordination, promotion and quality control of the global Seventh-day Adventist educational system. The theme of the East-Central Africa Division Department of Education is “every Adventist teacher an evangelist, and every Adventist school the House of God and the gate of heaven.” It seeks to provide quality Adventist…

Elders

God asks the church to be a community of people sharing a common purpose and fellowship, continually growing in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God. Paul describes the church as “. . . his body, the fullness of him who filleth every thing in every way” (Eph.1:22). God calls us into…

Family Life

Family Ministries is a ministry to relationships: husband and wife, parent and child. Relational dynamics are in view rather than the needs of individuals per se. Primary areas of emphasis include premarital guidance, strengthening marriage, parent education, and family evangelism. The primary methodologies of the department are education and enrichment. While the target audience is…

Health

The Health Ministries Department serves as a resource for information and counsel on health and temperance affairs and advises the Church and its departments and related agencies on health and/or temperance related policies and programs. The Health department promotes a healthful lifestyle among church members through literature, programs and Sabbath services, and provides publications, services…

Investment and Development

Masterguide

Music

Pathfinders

For those who are familiar with it, “Pathfindering” conjures up images of marching, camping, curious hobbies, bugs and bats. Enlarging their windows on the world and building a relationship with God are the dual objectives of this club, which is designed for children ages 10-15. With nearly 2 million members around the world, this Seventh-day Adventist…

Personal Ministries

Personal Ministries is a facet of the church whose origin can be traced to the beginning of Seventh-day Adventist® history in the 1860s. It endeavors to inspire, motivate, equip, train, and mobilize all members for dynamic Christian service with the conviction that “The church of Christ is organized for service” (Ministry of Healing, p. 148) and…

Possibility Ministry

We are Adventist Possibility Ministries (APM) – grounded in the belief that the gospel transforms the way we see ourselves, others, and God. How we perceive personal value while having bodies that are less than perfect is changed when we understand the implications of the gospel message. We are APM – recognizing disabilities and loss, but it…

Prison Ministry

Transformed by God God is using Prison Ministries to renew hope and transform lives. Adventist Prison Ministries coordinates the volunteers reaching out to those affected by incarceration throughout Jinja. Prisons ministry by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jinja started as simple errands to the prisons on Sabbath but now it is a vibrant ministry which…

Public Campus Ministry

Our Vision The goal of the General Conference Public Campus Ministry is to see young people grounded in the mission of Jesus Christ and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and able to reach and engage their fellow campus students in life-long relationships with Jesus. Furthermore, Public Campus Ministry not only concerns itself with nurturing students but…

Sabbath School

In 1853, only a few years after the first group of Sabbath-keeping Adventists was formed in Washington, New Hampshire, James White organized the first regular Sabbath School in Rochester, New York. In 1852, estimating an informal membership of about 1,000 in the state of New York, White had written a series of 19 lessons appearing…

Stewardship

The Stewardship Department provides leadership training and education in stewardship principles for church members.

Voice of Prophecy

Our mission is to bring people to Jesus and into church fellowship through easy to read Bible lessons.  Lighting the Lamp that Shine on the Path that Leads Home is our motto. Discover The Discover Bible study guides are simple, easy to use, and answer some of life’s challenging questions, such as: Why does God permit…

Welfare

Background  The Welfare department was constituted to cater for the diverse needs amongst Church members. These needs are physical, spiritual, and emotional. The department, therefore, seeks to offer support where possible. Mostly, the department supports Church members by giving them food, bereavement funds, and carrying out visitations. We always partner with other departments such as…

Women Ministry

The Women’s Ministries Department ministers to the spiritual, emotional, physical and social needs of women around the world. It encourages women to improve their potential and participation in the mission of the church. It provides a support system for hurting women, and a forum to address topics and issues as they affect women in and…

Young Adults

Created by youth for youth: making disciples from adolescence to Young Adults. The story of the Adventist Youth Society, now titled Young Adults (YA), began over 125 years ago along a dusty country lane in Michigan with two young boys kneeling in prayer. Today that dusty lane has become a worldwide web of highways that…

Youth Ministries

ADVENTIST YOUTH MINISTRIES Adventist Youth Ministry in Seventh-day Adventist Church Jinja Central is busy training the youths to work for other youths; recruiting them to help their Church, and sending them out to work for those who are not of our faith. We promote different platforms the youths can engage themselves to study the Word…