Community & Outreach
At St Peter’s, church is more than a Sunday service - it’s a community of people who support one another, share life together, and seek to love God and love people in everyday ways.
Alongside our life together here in Ruddington, we are also committed to serving others beyond our church family. Through partnerships, fundraising and practical support, we aim to care for those in need locally and around the world.
Loving our African neighbour
A core part of living the Christian faith is loving our neighbour, and in the story of the Good Samaritan Jesus made it very clear that our neighbour includes people who are very different from us - different ethnicity, different cultures. If they are in need, the Christian will seek to help them.
In this spirit St Peter’s has, for more than 25 years, supported work in a very poor area of Eastern Uganda called Teso, after the more than 2 million Iteso people who live there. It is an area that has been ravaged by violence from many conflicts and insurrections and so poverty is high.
When the Parents' School as able to stand on its own feet, it was decided that the church would now support a new secondary school in a rural area in the south of Teso called Aminit. There was no secondary school provision in the area so thousands of children did not finish education. The support from St Peter’s has enabled Aminit High School to build seven classrooms over a period of six years. Much work remains to be done but the school is now set for rapid growth and over the years thousands of children will have the education to be able escape poverty, in part thanks to the efforts of people here in Ruddington.
St Peter’s also supports the wider work of the Teso Development Trust through the church's regular giving. The strong relationship with the Teso region is now well founded and could well last another 25 years or more.
For more information about the wider work of the Teso Development Trust visit www.tesodev.org.uk
