When sisters around the world hear about Global Sisters Report, they're excited. They're passionate about the work they do and want their ministries to reach as wide an audience as possible. But here at GSR, we don't just write about sisters. The other aspect of GSR is providing a place for sisters themselves to speak: about their challenges, success, dreams, hopes and fears.
As in Nigeria, most of the sisters I met in Uganda politely declined when I asked them if they'd be interested in writing. "I'm not a journalist, I have no idea what to write," they told me. I was staying at the Association of Religious Uganda in Kampala, where two dozen sisters were in the midst of a monthlong basic finance course from the Sisters Leadership Development Institute.
"Accountants never like to write," I told them. "But we all have stories to tell."
Toward the end of my stay, I led another writing workshop to help the sisters put their stories on paper. We studied the story of Jesus and Simon casting out the net on the Sea of Galilee as a literary guide to understand what makes a good story. And then the sisters put pen to paper, to bring the voices of sisters from across rural Uganda to Global Sisters Report readers and the wider world.