{"id":1526,"date":"2025-07-28T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=1526"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:47:14","slug":"mission-reimagined-five-shifts-the-uk-church-must-make","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/resources\/mission-reimagined-five-shifts-the-uk-church-must-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Reimagined: Five shifts the UK Church must make"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_section full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; el_class=&#8221;resource-single&#8221;][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; remove_bottom_col_margin=&#8221;true&#8221; el_class=&#8221;resource-single__hero-banner&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1754565794100{background-color: #00383e !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; 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class=\"screen-reader-text\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243; el_class=&#8221;col-content&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc31728 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"fc31728\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b1061c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8b1061c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The British Church has a long, rich history of mission. Generations have gone out with courage, compassion, and a deep desire to share the love of Jesus. I honour that and have seen firsthand the incredible work done by missionaries, churches and evangelists with a genuine heart to reach Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I\u2019m grateful for their labour and commitment, times have changed and we now have a challenge which must be addressed. It\u2019s time for the British church to rethink the way it does mission and face the fact that some of its well-intentioned outreach habits are actually doing more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 20 years, my wife Andrea and I have built Musana in my native Uganda \u2013 a powerhouse of 19 social enterprises including hospitals, schools and hotels. We employ 740 staff and see tens of thousands of lives transformed each year. The kicker? Our African-run social enterprises turn a profit \u2013 \u00a3500,000 last year alone \u2013 fuelling change without the ongoing need for Western aid. It\u2019s a unique model but it seems to be working and it allows my fellow Ugandans to support their own people. Profits we generate are used for education scholarships, free health services, and programs for kids with disabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9b61a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a9b61a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-26317\" src=\"https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/5-768x432.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/11\/5.png 1025w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9194206 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"9194206\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d830ca3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d830ca3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Having recently launched Musana UK, the response so far in Britain has been brilliant. We\u2019ve spoken to charity sector experts, MPs and government civil servants, foundations and business leaders.<\/p>\n<p>But this summer we have a new audience \u2013 the British church, and we\u2019re so excited.<\/p>\n<p>We will be meeting with Christian leaders across the UK and also making our first appearance at the New Wine Festival. Our aim isn\u2019t to criticise but to challenge and ask questions on the subject of missions.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t want to become just another charity that collects money from well-meaning churches. We want to spark a new kind of partnership \u2013 but first we need a rethink. Here are five areas that need to change:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e52ed8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"0e52ed8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa0148d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa0148d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h4>1. Child Sponsorship: From dependency to dignity<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e35fefc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e35fefc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The model of one child, one sponsor and one photo is familiar, but sadly out of date. It often creates dependency, isolates children from their communities, and centres the sponsor rather than the child\u2019s long-term wellbeing. Many organisations are now closing down their child sponsorship streams. Do you sponsor a child? If so, don\u2019t feel guilty! We started Musana with a child sponsorship programme \u2013 but times have changed. Let\u2019s invest in communities \u2013 not follow a gimmick that creates dependency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72053fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72053fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h4>2. Mission Trips: From saving to listening<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4210f07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4210f07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Mission trips have become a rite of passage in many British churches. But too often, they\u2019re more about the visitor than the visited \u2013 fuelling emotional highs, quick fixes, and sometimes, unconscious saviourism. We all love a selfie don\u2019t we!? Real mission requires listening before speaking, learning before doing. Jesus did not come to impose heaven, but to dwell among us. What if short-term trips focused on relationships rather than rescue? What if they were about witnessing what God is doing through local leaders and learning from them?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b708b2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b708b2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h4>3. Giving: From pity to partnership<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55349f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55349f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>British generosity is extraordinary. But if we\u2019re not careful, giving becomes a one-way street \u2013 fuelled by pity, not partnership. The early Church modelled a different way. The Apostle Paul wrote: \u201cIn the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity,\u201d \u2013 2 Corinthians 8:2. Giving was mutual. Believers gave to each other, not just from wealth to need. At Musana, we invite the British Church not to give to us, but to build with us. Support local leaders. Trust local vision. Be part of a story where everyone brings something to the table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0098116 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0098116\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h4>4. Leadership: From Western control to local ownership<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-929cc4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"929cc4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Many missions are still run from Western boardrooms. Decisions are made far from the people affected by them.<\/p>\n<p>That must change. At Musana, 100 per cent of our programmatic leadership is Ugandan. We are not a project. We are a movement.<\/p>\n<p>Empowerment doesn\u2019t happen when you delegate tasks \u2013 it happens when you release authority. The Church in Acts grew not because apostles controlled everything, but because they equipped local believers to lead in their own contexts. Let\u2019s trust locals to lead and grow!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-098d042 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"098d042\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h4>5. Narratives: From poverty to potential<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c5b237 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c5b237\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The stories we tell \u2013 especially in fundraising \u2013 too often reduce Africa to suffering and sadness. This is not the full truth.<\/p>\n<p>Africa is full of entrepreneurs, pastors, teachers, dreamers, and doers. Our job is not to highlight our weakness for your response; it\u2019s to declare our God-given potential and celebrate a mission that honours God and celebrates dignity, not desperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\"><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/musana.org\/ug\/ug\/our-work\/\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button inline musana-button musana-button--oringe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center\">Explore Our Model<\/span><\/a> <div class=\"vcex-spacing wpex-w-100 wpex-clear\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb7f756 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb7f756\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3>Musana UK: A different Invitation<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-661d401 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"661d401\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>We are not only looking for donors to fund our work. We are inviting partners to co-labor with us \u2013 to stand with African leaders and support solutions born from within the communities they serve.<\/p>\n<p>To my brothers and sisters in the British Church: Let\u2019s reject the outdated models of mission that elevate one culture over another. Let\u2019s bring change. For good. May our motives always be pure and may we be part of a Movement that changes and transforms nations \u2013 with the greatest message ever told at our core.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cdcfec elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"0cdcfec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-divider\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2934d0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2934d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>*Haril will be at New Wine Festival from July 30-Aug 4, where Musana is sponsoring the Mini Top venue. 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