Moses Kuboi, the Jinja district prisons commander and the officer in charge of the Jinja main prisons who received Naimanhye and his team, said they were yearning for the revival of their church inside the facility which had collapsed following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Since guidelines restricted social gatherings, Kuboi said their St Paul Chapel had gone into tatters until one of their staff proposed the need for its revival.
“A month ago, one of our staff decided that we should serve the Lord again and here we are,” Kuboi said.
The church is hosted in one of the buildings within Kirinya complex under the St James archdeaconry in Jinja district. Kuboi said the Church of Uganda had revived drastically at the facility with the deployment of a chaplain, Stephen Wanyagira who was at the helm.
He said the team found them when they were tattered, but kept making them firm and this inspired them to reclaim their church back.
Busoga Diocese bishop the Rev. Dr. Paul Samson Naimanhye said they deemed it fit to visit the prisoners and feed them spiritually.
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