BLI Hosts Seminarians from Across Uganda

This summer, 38 seminarians from across Uganda joined the current Caretaker trainees on BLI’s campus to learn about integral ecology and creation care. The seminarians lived alongside the trainees for the entire month of June, joining in the trainees’ work in Mary’s Farm, Martha’s Market, and Lazarus’ Forest. Their modules ranged from Pastoral Leadership and Creation Care to Introduction to Rural Sociology.

Seminarian leader Erick Bakatunga said the group found the experience at BLI extremely enriching, helping them really learn to understand Pope Francis’s call to care for the environment. “BLI has helped us advance our understanding of the Pope’s encyclical, Laudato Si’” he says. “Before coming here, many of us had never worked with the soil, with the ground. But now we’ve been able to see integral ecology in action and interact with those on the rural farms.”