The information age has dawned upon us with such unprecedented speed. The rise of smartphones and internet-varieties means the urban African church, currently dominated by the young and savvy, has to adapt to the times without conforming to them. 

Fulfilling the evangelism and discipleship function in the great commission therefore means the local church gets renewed in the context of the word, for God’s glory and the world’s good. We at Veracity Fount therefore aim to ensure the African church in the city is equipped through theological research and supplied through gospel tools necessary to keep her sharper in the knowledge of God and those she’s trying to reach.  

 Africans have traditionally practiced learning communities, fireplaces, and paths to water-spring conversations often served that purpose. We’ve always believed and practiced the communal life, yet almost never in our 21st century do you notice a shared life around absolute biblical truth. Simply put, Africans have for long been designed for fountains of truth, or truly put, a Veracity Fount. A place truth can permeate our communal yet hurried busy lives. 

And so, we long to recover these, first in Africa’s cities, where conversations about faith and life can happen, in these cities where rising urban populations have been well documented.

It is inside these industrialized lives that Africa’s variety cultures converge and intersect to ask more pressing questions, beyond jobs and economies, but about joy, sanity, peace, freedom, truth, community, values that have since been sacrificed at the altar of aggressive globalization.

Veracity Fount therefore seeks to research and resource the African church for renewal through, 

Exegetes: Faithful Christian living cannot be separated from faithful Bible understanding, an understanding tied to historical context, authorial intent and original biblical languages. We want to resource the next generation of Bible-saturated Christians and help our churches qualify them as fit to watch their life and doctrine. For like Paul, we believe it’s only then that they “will save not only themselves, but their hearers.” (1 Timothy 4:16)  Our weekly Bible study draws diverse learners from all walks of life across Kampala and beyond. We want to model for and equip those who will eventually return to their local churches and replicate the same. 

Library: Whereas the earliest Church Fathers can be rooted on our continent, not a lot of leading Christian  scholarship currently is. Our library seeks to be a space that will invite and nurture those committed and curious about theological growth for themselves and others, through their local churches and other platforms. Our current collection of 2600 books from Banner of Truth, Christian Books, and other partners, cut across central Christian themes key in facilitating the discipleship of many in Uganda, which has since been ranked among one of the youngest countries in the world, with over 60 percent under the age of 30. 

Research: Widespread literacy challenges in this part of the world mean a lot of ministry in Africa is ill-equipped to cope with the pace of aberrant teachings that distort Christian truth. Infamous among these is the now common-place prosperity gospel, a widespread gospel that capitalizes on poverty contexts to disillusion many with promises of health and wealth. These trends can only be countered through research tailored to prepare the church to rescue the perishing, more so those most convinced they are not.  

Community Bible Study:  To serve is to be present. Our community Bible studies are designed to facilitate indigenous and faithful biblical learning that can easily be distilled into local church contexts. from people-group Bible studies like Women’s Studies, we anticipate our community studies to tap into an already existent communal spirit in Africa, for outreach. This, we have come to know, learners are seekers: first after the truth, and then after the lost.

Church Editorials: Faithful leadership is shared leadership, the Church in Uganda is deprived of thought leadership. As local Pastors manipulate congregations through the health and wealth gospel, empires are built and the grass of collaboration suffers. Veracity Fount aims to platform and aggregate sound pastoral insights on life and ministry through featured blogs, because we are convinced faithful leadership is shared leadership. 

Local Church partnerships: We believe the local church is the best context for sustained communal learning, under accountability, for the sake of the visible body of Christ. Community is forged not by commuters, but by members of one another. To this end, Veracity Church will foundationally exist to equip and empower the church’s work. In Uganda, a nation poised to be the 8^th most Christian country in the world by 2060, according to the Pew Research Center. The harvest is plenty.

Will you prayerfully consider our invitation to you to be a co-laborer?

Would accompany us on mission to help the African church resource and research for the body of Christ, on a continent expected to have the most number of Christians globally  by 2050. 

For more about what we believe, please see our Statement of Faith.