In October 2025, Doug Ingram visited Uganda to spend time with Daniel Muwanguzi, the national coordinator of SEAN Uganda and the lead for SEAN’s work across Africa. The meeting, held just outside Kampala, provided an opportunity to see first-hand how SEAN Africa is helping to strengthen the Church’s capacity for training and discipleship across the continent.
At its heart, this partnership is about enabling the local Church to flourish. SEAN Africa supports Relay Trust’s wider mission by delivering accessible, practical theological education across the Trust’s partner Anglican provinces of Africa. Its work brings learning to the ground, to clergy, lay leaders, and local pastors who might never have the chance to study in a formal college.
The SEAN Uganda base, set in a rural village near Kampala, has become a model of that vision. The site is home to the offices of SEAN Uganda and SEAN Africa, but also to much more: a theological library for students and pastors, a children’s library, the first in central Uganda, and a small medical centre that provides basic care to families in the surrounding villages. Each part of the site reflects a holistic understanding of mission, integrating faith, education, and community life.
SEAN Uganda and SEAN Africa’s mission is truly biblical mirroring the Ministry areas of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the Earth. Locally, they are supporting the local community with the various ministries outlined above. Across Uganda their work reaches into remote and challenging places—refugee camps, nomadic communities, and small islands on Lake Victoria—where faith is often the only anchor in uncertain times.
Daniel’s leadership has helped to shape this wider movement internationally. Under his guidance, SEAN Africa supports Relay Trust training initiatives across South Sudan, Burundi, Mozambique, Angola, and, in time, Madagascar. In these countries, the church’s training facilitators are equipping church leaders to teach, disciple, and serve in their own languages and contexts.
During his visit, Doug met with Daniel and the team to listen, learn, and explore new opportunities for collaboration. One key area of discussion was the development of micro-accreditation and conferences that will bring SEAN facilitators from Relay Trust’s partner provinces together from across Africa. These gatherings will strengthen networks, share best practice, and ensure that theological education by extension (TEE) remains consistent, practical, and rooted in the local church.
The work of SEAN Africa continues to play a vital role in supporting Relay Trust’s vision of sustainable ministry and local leadership throughout the Anglican churches across Africa. Together, they are helping churches across Africa to train their own people, build their own systems, and proclaim the Gospel in word and deed.
Please continue to pray for Daniel, for the SEAN Africa and SEAN Uganda teams, and for the hundreds of church leaders they support across the continent. Pray that their training will bear fruit in strong, faithful, and servant-hearted leadership, and that through their work, the Gospel will continue to reach to the very ends of the earth.
