Seed Projects

Today was the first day of the second week of our Training of Trainers(TOT II) course in Kampala.  We facilitated the first week of training five months ago.  During the first week we added a lesson about Seed Projects, and as a homework assignment everyone was supposed to go home and perform a seed project.  A seed project is a small act of love which is carried out by members of a local church and which shows God’s love to the community.  One group fixed a pothole.  Another group formed a volleyball team with the youth in the community.  Another group had noticed that a widow’s house in the community was in a state of disrepair and was about to fall over.  The members of the church got together and repaired the house for the widow.  The widow was not a member of the church.  While this act of love was being performed, members of various religious organizations were concerned that this church was doing this act in order to “bribe” the widow into attending their church.  This of course was not the case and no pressure was placed on the widow to attend.  However, after some time the widow was so grateful, she decided that she would like to fellowship with Christians who would do this act of kindness.  She has now attended the church several times, and both her physical needs and her spiritual needs are being cared for by the church.  Praise be to God!  This is an example of how a church can make an impact in its community.  Several who were gathered in our TOT II today stated that their seed project had made the community notice their efforts even though they had not made an effort to advertise the project, and the credibility of their churchs in the community had improved.  I was encouraged and it seems that God does use seed projects!