Church Planting

The opening of three churches in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in Arua district in 2018 was yet another landmark in PAG’s work among South Sudanese communities displaced by civil war in their country. Till then, PAG was involved in shelter; water and sanitation; supplementary feeding; as well as mental health and psychosocial programmes with the refugees.

Tika PAG Church

The first was Tika PAG Church in Tika Zone, Village 4, Block A which opened in July 2018 under a temporary shelter with about 80 adults.

The Tika PAG Church runs programmes including youth fellowship, bible study, evening prayer, Sunday school and Sunday service led by either the refugees themselves or PAG pastors and eld staff. The PAG Life Celebration Centre which brings together humanitarian workers and government employees in Yoro Base Camp as well as locals and refugees nearby, conducts Sunday service, fellowship and bible study.

PAG Life Celebration Centre

PAG Life Celebration Centre  conducted their first Sunday service on 27/07/2018 and was attended by 21 adults on the building block constructed by PAG inside the Yoro Base Camp.

PAG Omugo

AG Omugo in Omugo 6 Zone which started with about 20 adults in August 2018. It is in the midst of the Nuer tribe that moved from Tika Zone. It was inevitable that PAG which had integrated counselling and praying into some of its programmes, goes into a full- edged church ministry among the refugees. The Tika PAG Church stands a few metres away from where four Nuer men were murdered by the Dinka as the rivalry between the two tribes- that originated from their country, spiraled out of control in the settlement in June 2018. The incident prompted PAG to launch a three day crusade which paved way for the opening of the Tika church.