Drafting a school budget; maintaining a cash-book; reconciling bank statements; drafting school financial procedures. Hardly words to get the pulse racing. However, these have been some of the topics that have been exciting school leaders in Baptist schools in western Uganda who have asked for training on how to be better stewards of the resources they have been entrusted with.
There are a number of Baptist schools in Kasese and Bundebugiyo districts where these workshops have been piloted by BMS partner the Baptist Union of Uganda’s Education Department. Whilst some of these schools have great vision, they often lack the management structures to enable the schools to be accountable and efficient.
Training on financial accountability enables these schools to stand out as examples that honesty and integrity are godly characteristics that the Baptist schools should be proud to model, both to the students in their care and to the wider community where corruption and bribery are commonplace.
Please pray that by following the training, that Baptist schools in
Western Uganda would be able to implement many of the financial
structures advocated and stand out as models of how God can be
glorified – even through the mundane activities of accounting and
budgeting!