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*[https://www.google.com/maps/search/presbyterian+church+in+Uganda/@1.834683,31.3264433,8z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Presbyterian churches in Uganda'''] | *[https://www.google.com/maps/search/presbyterian+church+in+Uganda/@1.834683,31.3264433,8z/data=!3m1!4b1 '''Google Maps search results for Presbyterian churches in Uganda'''] | ||
===Historical Background=== | ===Historical Background=== | ||
Presbyterian Church in Uganda is a conservative Reformed Calvinistic denomination in Uganda with almost 100 churches in 5 presbyteries in the late 2000s. The Presbyterian Church in Uganda was founded in the 1970s by the Ugandan pastor Keefa Sempangi. Keefa had to emigrate from Uganda because of persecution and fled to the Netherlands where he was introduced the Reformed faith and later he was invited to study in the United States, become a student of the Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He returned home in 1979 with help of American missionaries began to start the Presbyterian church. The first church was organized in that year in Kampala, Uganda. This was the First Presbyterian Church in Kampala, Uganda. <ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Presbyterian Church in Uganda", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Uganda, accessed 22 March 2020.</ref> | |||
=='''Seventh-day Adventist Church Records'''== | =='''Seventh-day Adventist Church Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||