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 deaconry, prison ministry, hospital ministry, singing ministries, children ministry etc.
- Deaconry: we partner with them to do visitation to the Church members who may need visitation or may request for the same.
- Prison ministry: we also partner with them to do visitation to the prisons.
- Hospital ministry: we again partner with them to help us minister to the sick in hospitals and at their rooms/homes. We as well pray together with the sick.
- Music ministries: these ministries partner with us to visit their members who may need or requests for visitation.
- Children ministry: they also help us do visitation to the children’s home and also visit any child who may need visitation.
As we do these visitation its our custom to carry some items for the need such as clothes, food, spiritual books etc.
Source of our resources
- We depend mostly on contributions from Church members who always donate money, clothes, food etc.
- We also get them from treasury and Church planning and strategic committee.
- We also get some contributions from community members.
- Some other contributions come from well-wishers
Vision
To make Seventh-day Adventist Church Jinja Central to be everybody’s home away from home.
Mission
Provide service to everyone equally and through prayers carry one another’s burden to Christ’s Calvary.
Objectives:
The department is trying and looking forward to:
- Come up with diverse ways of raising funds such as projects, programs that can generate funds e.g. fitness programs.
- Create and foster mutual assistance amongst members.
- Create more emphasis and constant reminder to the Church members of the importance of monetary contributions towards the welfare kitty as well as socio-psychological assistance.
- Find a way to make Church members more acquainted with the are department to make it easier for the members to air their issues.
- Encourage Church members to donate anything they have that will benefit a fellow Church member such as toiletries, foodstuffs and clothes.
