Greetings and welcome to St. Francis Chapel, located at Makerere University. We are delighted to welcome you as a member of our community of believers. St. Francis Chapel provides a welcoming environment for all its members, ensuring that everyone feels comfortable and at ease. Joining St. Francis Chapel guarantees encountering a hospitable and affectionate community. It is a community that unites individuals from all backgrounds and diverse spiritual positions. Everyone is welcome to join us in worshipping God, our Father, connect with Him and with other Christians.
St. Francis Chapel is a dynamic and rapidly growing congregation with distinctive characteristics. It is a community that annually receives new members, including professors, researchers, lecturers, investors, academics, students, missionaries and business people from across the globe. It is a collective of diverse professionals and leaders. Regardless of your cultural and academic background, you may be confident that you will get spiritual support and experience growth within this church community. May you experience exponential growth in your relationships, faith, and unity within this family of Christ.
To make disciples who make disciples for Jesus Christ, is the mission of St. Francis Chapel. It is a disciple-making and missional church, whose operations and very existence are supported by prayer. This is rooted in the Great Commission, which Jesus Christ, our Lord, and Savior, entrusted to us (Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15, and Acts 1:8). As a disciple-making church, we are committed, as a congregation to disciple and mentor everyone to maturity through the transformative Word of God. As a missional church, we annually send out missionaries and leaders into the world to exert influence within their respective fields of expertise.
As you become part of St. Francis Chapel, you are encouraged to establish connections with fellow church members, seek assistance when needed, and actively participate in chapel ministry activities. To accelerate your spiritual growth, it is advisable to pursue your faith both individually and corporately, with fellow believers in the community. I am convinced that collectively, we commence the journey of self-exploration, purposeful worship, intentional service to God and mankind, and lovingly caring for one another. We appreciate your decision to join us and embark on this spiritual journey with us. Let us continue to shine as an example of faith, hope, and love within our communities.
My prayer for you is that you will commit to the words of Paul in Philippians 3:8-11, “What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”
Rev. Dr. Lydia Nsaale Kitayimbwa
Chaplain