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A group of six Trustees and committee members from the Poole-Wau Partnership travelled to Wau from 2nd to 12th February 2025, the first such visit for seven years.
We were privileged to take part in the opening ceremony of the new building at St John’s College, in the cathedral compound in Wau, for which PWP has provided £55,000, 95% of the cost, raised over three years. The new block, named the Poole-Wau Partnership Building, provides four lecture rooms and three offices and will be a transformative asset for St John’s College, which has increased in size from 3 students when it was founded in 2012 to 300 today. The team, consisting of Chair Jeff Neagle, Janet Davies, Rev. Penny Draper, Andrew Holt, Mark Rathbone and Richard Tazewell, also led a three-day training conference for students and church leaders entitled 'Learning from Luke’s Gospel' and covering Women’s Role in the Church and Salvation. You may download a copy of the course notes as a pdf file by clicking near the lower edge of the 'thumbnail' on the right of this page. We also visited a village and school in Akon and a hospital in Wau, as well as advising the diocese and college on IT matters, discussing future project ideas and speaking at several local church services on Sunday 9th February. Fellowship was strengthened with friends in Wau, including Acting Archbishop Abraham Nhial, Principal Philip Abiel of St John’s College, and Rev Andrew Apiny, Dean of Wau Cathedral. We were also delighted to catch up in Juba on their way home with Archbishop Moses Deng Bol, who had flown from peace talks in Nairobi specifically to meet us. In an email message to the team, Archbishop Moses writes, “It was really an exciting moment to meet my old friends with whom we have worked together for more than 10 years. Your visit to St John's has encouraged everyone there and people are very excited that you came for the opening of the new building." We hope that you enjoy the selection of photos from our visit below. |
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