[afro-nets] New HIV training materials for African independent churches

["Glen Williams" <sfh@stratshope.org>]

New HIV training materials for African independent churches
By Glen Williams

The Strategies for Hope Trust is pleased to announce the publication of two new training materials on HIV and AIDS, designed especially for use by African independent churches and community groups.  

Both books are based on 12 years of experience by the Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), based in Nairobi, Kenya.  The author, Nicta Lubaale, is an ordained pastor who has been involved in faith-based and community responses to HIV and AIDS since 1991.  Since January 2007 he has been General Secretary of the OAIC.

The new books are nos. 4 and 5 in the Called to Care toolkit, produced by the Strategies for Hope Trust.  Book no. 4, 'Pastoral Action on HIV and AIDS', contains guidelines for training pastors and lay church leaders in addressing the pastoral challenges of the AIDS epidemic.  These challenges affect churches in their teachings about sickness and healing, their forms of worship and their pastoral ministries.  

Book no. 5, 'Community Action on HIV and AIDS', is designed to help church leaders in dealing with social, cultural and economic issues related to the AIDS epidemic at community level.  It contains sections on topics such as the sexual abuse of children, domestic violence, widow inheritance and property grabbing by relatives - issues which have been exacerbated in many African countries by the AIDS epidemic.  

Both books include case studies of the work of several African independent churches which, with the support of the OAIC, have responded in particularly innovative ways to the challenges of the AIDS epidemic.  These stories are drawn from OAIC member churches in Kenya and Uganda, but they are relevant to churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond.

Both books contain numerous role plays, discussion guidelines, Biblical references, individual case studies and illustrations by African artists.  

To order copies of either or both of these books:

Organisations in Kenya, please contact: OAIC, Junction of Riara/Kingara Roads, PO Box 21736, Nairobi 00505, Kenya.  Email: hiv@oaic.org.  Tel.: +254 20 387 8419.  Website: http://www.oaic.org. 

Outside Kenya, please contact: TALC, P.O. Box 49, St Albans AL1 5TX, U.K.  Tel.: +44 1727 853869.  Email: info@talcuk.org.  Website: www.talcuk.org. 

Publication details:

Called to Care no. 4: 'Pastoral Action on HIV and AIDS', by Nicta Lubaale, Strategies for Hope Trust and OAIC, March 2008, ISBN 978-1-905746-04-0.

Called to Care no. 5: 'Community Action on HIV and AIDS', by Nicta Lubaale, Strategies for Hope Trust and OAIC, March 2008, ISBN 978-1-905746-05-7.

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Glen Williams, 
Strategies for Hope Trust, 
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Oxford OX4 1LN, UK.  
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