The Testimony of Pastor Deuse
I was suffering from a demonic attack. I had begun suffering from a mental disorder at twenty-eight years of age and was going mad. By then, I was already married with three children. Finally, my parents and my wife tried to find a cure by consulting witch doctors in our region, but the situation worsened.
Finally, my wife and parents gave up looking for a solution, and I was abandoned at home. Out of that desperate situation, I was led to attend a church where they shared the gospel and prayed for me. That is how I received my deliverance from the demonic attacks. After that, I gave my life to Christ, got involved in ministry activities at church, and took on ministerial responsibilities. Now I am living in Nyamirama with my family, sharing the gospel, and starting a church.
I am attending the Uganda Bible College and studying with our God’s Embassy Pastors.
We serve in a predominantly Bakiga community that practices mixed subsistence farming. The dominant religion is a form of Anglicanism or Catholicism that does not believe in a true gospel of faith in Jesus Christ. Those churches require paying quarterly dues to reserve a place in heaven. Some members of the community practice witchcraft secretly. There are also some other cults, like the church of the prophets.
I have a substantial burden in my heart to preach the gospel of salvation to the people in our community, considering the suffering and bondage I was in before I came to know our Lord Jesus Christ. I look around our community and see many people suffering in the darkness under the demonic evil influence of witchcraft and false religious teachers in my community, so my heart goes out to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Recent Ministry
Annet is a testimony in the community that God helps all those who run to Him for salvation and protection. Annett is a widow with one child, Monic, 16 years old. She was a drunkard and was tormented by the spirit of her late husband and these spirits would come and sexually abuse her in the night. We shared with her the Word of God and prayed for her to be delivered from the spirits. She gave her life to Christ and the spirits have never come back to attack her. Annet praises God for a church where she could turn to for peace and hope.
Naomi and her family were tormented by the spirits of the idols they worshiped and had sold most of her property to get funds to pay for the services of the witch doctors. Naomi is divorced with four young children. We met her during our home visits and prayed for her, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and was delivered from the spirits. God has helped her to now own a boutique selling clothes.
Flora praises God, who delivered her from the works of the devil, and she is determined to work and serve the Lord. Flora is a widow with four children. One daughter and two grandchildren live with her in a temporary house with two rooms and survive through selling labor and subsistence farming. She had a disease and had sought treatment through various hospitals, and because the exact cause was not known, she also went to witch doctors. She was not healed. We shared the Word of God, and she believed in Jesus for her salvation and healing. God healed her, and she gave her life to Christ.
Shallon testifies of the healing of her twin children and of the return of her husband. When we met Shallon through home visits, her husband had left home to find work and had been gone 1 1/2 years, and her twins, Linnet and Holiness, 2 years, were ill. She had sought medicine from medical centers and a hospital but the children were not getting better. She consulted one of our church elders about the sickness of her children, and as a church, we went to pray in her home. We prayed for the children to be healed and the husband to return. We praise the Lord that He has answered our prayers
When we shared the Word of God with Monday, he accepted Jesus Christ, changed his lifestyle, began to save money, and worked with his wife and children in peace. God blessed them. Monday and Jane have four children. There was no peace in their home because Monday was a violent drunkard, who spent most of his income on alcohol. He had no land but rented land for growing food and depended on selling labor to others for survival. They lived in a temporary house with a leaking roof and children were not in school due to a lack of school fees. Monday has stopped drinking alcohol and has managed to buy land to cultivate. We praise God.
Fausta’s source of income is from weaving mats and subsistence farming. Fausta, 84 years old, is a widow who lives with a grandchild, Stella, 13 years in a temporary house. When we met during home visits, she was sick with pain in her stomach and could not do her handicrafts because her hands were paralyzed. She had been in this condition for more than two years. We prayed for her, and she was healed. Her former religion told her that since she was healed, she should come back to her former church, but she instead chose to believe and gave her life to Christ and be baptized.
False prophets stole all of Tumushabe’s money and left her with empty promises. In despair, Tumushabe started to drink alcohol. We met her and her husband, Deis, and their three children and shared the Word of God from John 1:12-13 “We became the children of God and not by the flesh but the will of God.” The Word touched her, and she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. We pray that God may heal her fully as she remains in the grace of God.
Agatha thanks God, who brought her out from sin to know the truth about Jesus Christ. Agatha is a single mother with a three-year-old son. She was a drunkard and slept with many men while drunk. We met her during home visits and shared with her the Word of God. The Word challenged her, and she accepted Jesus Christ and dedicated her life to Christ during the church service. We pray that God will strengthen her in faith and keep her in the light she has seen in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jackline prays for the protection of her children and for provisions to continue providing the necessities for her children. Jackline is a widow with three children. She began to drink when her husband died eight years ago, and while drunk, she slept with other men, and her children are from different fathers. When we shared the Word of God, she was touched and accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior. She no longer drinks and is happy that now she can work and care for her children and can serve the Lord.
Pray for Emmanuel, who is 24 years old and single. He has been asking questions about Jesus, and we answer him. He is impressed and has shared with his friends how we preach verse by verse during our church services. He promises that sometime soon, he will become a church member. We pray God will convict him to understand the truth of Jesus Christ.
We praise God for being able to plaster our church structure. The Lord is enabling us to put another smaller structure- the church kitchen- which will help us to cook at church, especially when we have visitors. We ask God for another structure for Sunday school classes and pray for Bibles for church members who cannot afford them
We see God at work in the life of Enoch, who is married to Editor and has three children together, ages two months to three years. Enock was involved in evil spiritism, seeking to become wealthy, for he believed that worshipping spirits would make him wealthy. He sold all his land, seeking herbs and fetishes to make him wealthy, which failed. After selling his home and land to witch doctors, he now rents a house to live in with his family. He was desperate and resorted to drinking alcohol until he became a drunkard. We shared the Word of God with him and invited him to visit us one Sunday at church. When he came, he attended church service with us, gave his life to Jesus Christ, and was saved. He joined the church, and he learned the Word of God, which helped him to stop drinking alcohol; he started to work as a hired hand for farming, and he saved what he earned since now he was no longer drinking alcohol. We thank God that this month, the Lord has enabled Enock to buy two acres of land, which he will use for farming, and he is now planning to build a permanent house. We pray he keeps in faith. We thank God, who has worked and done amazing things in Enock’s life- saving, transforming, and enabling him to improve his family. We give God all the glory.
Fausta, 59 years old, is the wife of Fred, 74 years old, and now attends our home fellowship in the Kibarama cell. Fausta always had strange dreams in which she would be strangled by the dark forces that wanted to kill her. She could not tell anyone, but she would fear the night. We visited her and shared the word of God; she believed and surrendered her life to the Lord Jesus, and we prayed for her. She was delivered, and those demons are no longer disturbing her. She thanks and praises the name of the Lord for saving, healing, and giving her peace to sleep now. What the Lord is doing in the life of Fausta has proved that our God is a deliverer from the powers of darkness. We give God all the glory.
Isaac and Vanience have two children together. They live in a temporary home, survive by selling labor to others, and depend on small-scale subsistence farming. We met them through our home visits and found that they worshipped idols and sometimes would be tormented by evil spirits. They were both drunkards and not interested in knowing about Jesus. We shared the Gospel with them, and though they were drunk even when we visited, they asked us some questions, trying to challenge us about their spirit worship. We prayed with them and invited them to visit and attend Sunday service. They promised to come, saying that how we pray differs from how they pray. We thank God they came to participate in our service and were delivered from evil spirits’ possession when we prayed for them. Since then, they have stopped worshipping spirits and drinking alcohol; they have given their lives to Jesus Christ and are now members of the church. They serve God in the Praise and Worship Team and are good at singing. We pray that God gives them the grace to keep in faith and service to Him and His people in this area. We also pray that God gives them the strength to work and support their children in school to attain education.
Natukunda Princess, age 22, is single and dropped out of school in primary six after failing to meet all the school requirements. She returned home and thought that her future had ended. She lost hope in everything and started drinking alcohol when she was still very young. One day, she felt convinced to look for a born-again church and ask to be prayed for, but she ignored it. As we were doing home visits, we shared the Word of God with her and invited her to visit us at church and attend the Sunday service. She accepted the call, came the following Sunday, and gave her life to Christ after the service. As she talked about her life in church, one of the guests who had attended service with us decided to sponsor her on a tailoring course if she was interested. She attended and finished it, and now she works as a tailor to earn an income. She is also serving on the church Praise and Worship Team. She is happy as her life is changing, and she stopped drinking alcohol. We give God all the glory.
Establishing a church in this area requires much work. We are a remote village far from schools and markets. With the White Fields’ support, I will be able to serve full-time, proclaiming the gospel and teaching young people so that one day they may be able to attend school.
We have seen God at work in the life of Gad Niwagaba, aged fifty-one years old, a resident of Kyiruruma cell in Kyantuhe village. He was demon-possessed for over a month and could hear voices calling to him without seeing the people who were speaking. He said that sometimes he could hear sounds in his room, and he tried to seek help from some witch doctors, but it failed to work. His family invited us to pray for him, and we visited him and prayed for him. God heard our prayers, and the spirits left him and he was healed. He has come to church to thank God for his healing.
Annet is thirty-two and a widow with three children, they are residents of Kagunga cell, Ntungwa parish. They live in a temporary house with two rooms. The names of the children are Sharon, aged ten; Danson, aged seven; and Gift, two. They survive through selling labor to others and subsistence farming on their small piece of land. We met Annet through home visits and found that before the death of her husband, she was a drunkard and quarrelsome. She was so full of stress that she could not care for her children, and the demon spirits used to attack her when she was not drunk, especially during the night. This situation made her poor, and for some time, they lacked food. We prayed with her and that night she slept well, and the spirits did not come, she also arranged the next day for a family overnight and at that overnight, she gave her life to Christ. She is now an intercessor in the fellowship and has allowed her home to host the home fellowship with more than ten members. She is planning to build a permanent house. We pray that God will open the doors for finances so that she can also pay for school fees for her children. We are also praying for God to strengthen her faith.
Fausta is sixty-two and a widow with four grandchildren. She came to our church for prayer due to pain she had in her head and in her legs; we prayed for her, and she was healed. She came back to testify what the Lord had done for her and gave her life to Christ.
Eunice is married with four children, three of whom have their own families. She is an Anglican who we met in Annet’s home. We shared the Word, and she was interested in our teaching and thought of joining the church to learn more about God. Eunice has been coming to church and has started bringing her friends. We pray the Lord will continue to draw her to Himself.