Robert’s Testimony
Before Robert knew Christ, ministers came to visit him. These ministers would visit and talk to Ugandans living in rural areas about sin, faith, and redemption. After reading John Chapter 1, Robert realized that he could have redemption Christ. God would call him His own; he understood he was a sinner and needed atonement. This awareness was the motivation that led him to start attending church.
While attending church, Robert learned about God’s holiness, living in obedience, and praying. Unfortunately, he had stomach ulcers that ailed him, and he began to ask the Lord to remove his condition. The Lord answered his prayers, and Robert lived a happier and more productive in the work of the Lord thanks to God’s generosity.
Because of this experience, Robert desired to learn more about scripture and become involved in ministry. He studies the Bible daily and lives a more obedient, holy life. He is the Pastor of the Church in Katonya and is sharing his testimony with those in his church, spurring them toward a closer relationship with God.
Recent Ministry:
Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We thank God for your standing with us in the mission fields of Katoonya and the communities around where people’s lives are blessed because of your tremendous support. We are blessed through you; may the Lord God bless you in abundance.
We reach out to the community through home visits and home fellowships. We have three home fellowships in Katungu cell, Katoonya Trading Center, and Rwamatere cell. Each fellowship has over fifteen members who meet, sing in praise and worship of God, and share testimonies and the Word of God. We also do home visits, taking the Word of God to where people are. This month, we have visited sixty families and shared the Gospel with eighty-three females and sixty-four males. This has been a great month for making new friends by sharing the Gospel, especially in the many home visits we made. All the people we visited welcomed us into their homes and listened to us as we shared with them. We pray that God will touch their hearts to believe in His Son.
We have an association for adults to save money. It has thirty members: twenty-one females and nine males. This association helps them save money until December, when they share the profits according to their savings.
We have Sunday school for the children, which meets and shares the Bible stories, memorizes Bible verses, and practices songs. The youth are involved in the church worship Team since there are not many to continue with their Kingdom Steppers dancing group until school break, as many are back in their respective schools.
A Life Changed
We have seen God at work in the life of Ahumuza, age 18 years old. He is a son of Kweyamba Adonia, a resident of Katoonya. We met him at home and found that he had dropped out of school in primary seven and was selling hard labor to the neighbors. He had already become a drunkard and a womanizer at such a very young age, sleeping in nightclubs and disco halls. We shared with him the Word of God. He disclosed to us that he needed to have and do things that would help him out of his hopelessness, which is why he got involved with women and became an alcoholic. We shared the Word of God with him, and he believed and accepted the idea of giving his life to Jesus Christ. We led him in confessing Christ in his life, and since the day he was saved, he has not returned to bars but has been coming to church. He is working hard riding a Boda Boda to earn an income, and because he no longer drinks alcohol and is no longer a womanizer, he has been saving some money that has helped him to buy three goats so far, and he is doing well. Through Ahumuza’s life, people witness God’s transforming power and grace.
We have seen God changing the life of Opona at age 30. He was a drunkard who would, because of drinking too much alcohol, sometimes fail to walk home from bars and would end up sleeping by the roadsides. Once, we found him by the roadside and carried him to his home. We helped him recover from the effects of alcohol that he had drunk, and when he sobered up, we shared with him the Word of God. He accepted Jesus in his life and is now fellowshipping with us. We have been visiting him to encourage him in the Lord and to be available so that he knows he has found a new family of brothers, sisters, and friends and to follow up on him. We thank God that he stopped drinking alcohol, and the community is seeing him change. We thank God for what Opona is becoming and are excited to see what God is doing in his life.
We praise the Lord for baptizing fourteen people this month: nine males and five females. This is the highest number we have baptized since the year began. Nine parents also dedicated their children to the Lord in church. We thank God for growing us in number, both young and old.
Home Fellowship and Construction Project
We greet you all our friends in Christ Jesus. Thank you very much for your continuous prayers and support that have enabled us to do the work of ministry. We appreciate and praise the Lord for you. May the Lord God bless you abundantly.
We reach the community through home fellowships and home visits. When we are home visiting, we visit all families in the area we have set out to see, whether they are our church members or not, and share the Gospel. We pray with whoever lets us pray with them. This month, we visited 62 homes and shared the Word of God with 149 females and 113 males. We invited the ones we visited and prayed they would respond and attend church. We thank God you stand with us and help us do ministry work here. This month has indeed been a blessing to have been used by God to share the Gospel with His people.
We have a women’s group, which, apart from meeting and saving some money, has also started to visit each other to encourage each other to keep good hygiene in their homes, food storage, and security after the crop harvest.
The youth have a choir called Kingdom Steppers; they are mobilizing themselves to have drama competitions with other churches, so they plan to buy uniforms.
Our Sunday school is growing and now has 38 children, with 20 children in the Sunday school choir. The children in the choir come for practice every Saturday from 3 pm to 4:30 pm, where they learn songs and memorize verses from the Bible, which they present in the Sunday church services.
We thank God for White Field Ministries, which bought us a property and put up a strong church shade where we have fellowshipped for church services. Over the years, we have been contributing money to build the walls, and we thank God that we are now finalizing the walls of our church structure. We believe God will enable us to enclose our church structure. Please keep us in your prayers.
We have seen God at work in the life of Tusiime Annah, age 30, a resident of Katoonya, with one child, Annet Ayebare, age six, who had an allergy to the eyes that was so bad that every time it would come, she would feel a painful blanket on her eyes. Still, she did not know the cause of it. Her family told her to seek help from witch doctors since they had made her believe that she was bewitched. But she refused their counsel and believed Jesus would heal her baby, and as a Christian, she cannot consult spirits and visit witch doctors. When we visited her at her home, we recommended that she stand tall for Jesus despite the opposition; we prayed with her and encouraged her to seek medical help from the eye clinic in Rukungiri town. She did, and she got some eye drops and tablets, which she gave her daughter, who took them and became well. The Lord helped her escape the evil grip that her family was persuading her to get into.
We have seen God working in the life of Paulson, aged twenty years old. He is a resident of Katoonya, single, and had dropped out of school. Focicah Ayikoru, age 24, from South Sudan and now residing in Katoonya, was a drunkard and stressed; she came to Katoonya after she escaped from Sudan due to wars. She lives alone in Katoonya and has no relatives with her. One day, she visited us at church on Sunday and heard the Gospel; she gave her life to Christ. We later visited her at her home and encouraged her in the Lord. She is grateful to the Lord for helping her find the right church where she feels happy and enjoys the saints’ fellowship. She is also thankful to know the truth that God loves her the way she is. She is settling in and has started selling cassava to earn an income.
We have also seen God at work through Ariho James, age 22, married to Shallon Arinaitwe, age 20. They are both residents of Katoonya. James started working in people’s homes as a house help boy and later a compound boy, where he managed to save some money that helped him begin selling second-hand clothes. God is blessing what he is doing, and he has bought a boda boda motorcycle; he says he will join the boda boda transport business soon. Before we met and introduced him to the Gospel, he was a drunkard and a drug user. But when he accepted Christ in his life, he changed; he does not drink alcohol anymore, and neither does he use drugs. We bless the name of the Lord for His transforming grace.
Busingye Vaster, age 58, a resident of Katungu married to Kweyamba John, age 60, gave her life to Christ. We visited her and shared the Gospel with her. When we implored her to accept Christ, she said she had already accepted Christ while listening to Pastor Onesimus teach the Word on the radio. She says she had not yet come to join us because she was still figuring out how to come, but since we visited her, she has decided to be a part of us. We pray that she will come to grow and keep the faith.
Deliverance from Torment
He was a worshipper of spirits. During our home visits, we met him when he was discouraged and in despair since he had lost it all. He had dropped out of school because of attacks from the spirits. Something had gone wrong in the worship, and it was punishment time with torment by the spirits in nightmares. We shared the Word of God with him and promised rest from Jesus for He says that to all those who are heavy laden, He would give them rest. Paulson accepted Jesus. We prayed with him and asked for God to open the doors for education again. God heard our prayers and helped him return to school. He has completed his technical education and is now getting a driving permit. Paulson testifies about how God is gracious and what God has done for him. The spirits are no longer attacking him, and he has found rest and peace in God. We praise God for delivering him from the powers of darkness.
We praise God for the life of Alice, aged seventy-five. She has been staying with her son called Julius who is thirty-six but has been mad for eight years. Through the Word of God and prayers, he is improving slowly, but there is a difference.
We have a women’s association at church, and it has helped mobilize many ladies in the church and even the men have joined them to keep busy at church. They meet every Sunday after service, and so far in the association there are twenty-seven people. Each one puts in five-thousand shillings that have been saved and they help one of the members who is in need.
We have the Kingdom Steppers where the youth meet to practice new dancing skills and learn new songs, in this team we have ten members, and they do home visits to find and invite other youth to join them.
The children join Young Ambassadors in the Sunday school choir, and we have twenty children in this program. They train and do member verses and storytelling from the Bible.
Medard is aged forty-nine and gave his life to Christ. He stays alone in his house in Katoonya. After his wife died, he got another wife, but she left him so as a result he started to drink. We visited him, shared the Word of God, and prayed for him. He promised to stop drinking, and later, he came to the church and gave his life to Christ. We give all the glory to God.
The church is reaching out to the community through home visits, participating in the home fellowship, and following up with fellow Christians. This month we visited twenty homes and spoke with twenty-nine males and fifty-five females.