My goals as I begin to lead this church.
I intend to establish more home cells/fellowships in the different villages nearby our village to increase the church outreach, and the fellowship groups from afar may become church planting.
Training is vital to effective leadership, so I intend to train more people who will help me oversee the church and church programs. I have enrolled in Uganda Bible College and hope to get more ministers from our church to attend the Bible College.
I intend to help the church members identify which Poverty Solutions projects they can get involved with to earn a better income so that we can support the church financially.
We asked Pastor John why he was called to lead this church.
He answered, “Because I feel the willingness and the joy of doing the work of ministry. This confidence helps me know that I have been given the grace of God and His calling to serve this church. In addition, through sharing the Word of God with people in this community, I have experienced people who have put their trust in the Lord as their Savior. To me, this is proof that God has called me to lead this church in this community.
Recent Ministry:
We praise God that Jackline was delivered from demon possession that had caused her to go mad. When we shared the Word of God and prayed for her, she regained her senses and accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and is now learning the Word of God. Jackline is married to Vian, and they are blessed with one child, Andrew. We pray that she may remain under the protection of God and grow in faith and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Inid started praying for her husband, Bruce. God heard her prayer and touched his heart, and he has now returned home, and they burned down the shrine in their home. Bruce and Inid have three children. When we met them through home visits, they worshiped spirits and had a shrine at home even though Inid was an Anglican. The spirits punished them through sleepless nights and dreams of the dead visiting them when they erred in worshiping the spirits. The situation became worse; her husband left her and the children alone, and the children had to drop out of school. We shared with her the Word of God even though it was difficult, and we continued visiting her until she started coming to church. Later, she gave her life to Christ. Her husband is now home and they live in peace and work together, and their children have returned to school. We thank God for the unity and peace that came to this home and that the family has become a testament in the community that there is a God who can deliver from family evil covenants.
Inid and her three children.
After the death of her husband, Adrine became helpless, desperate, and a drunkard who thought of committing suicide. We shared the Word of God with her; she was encouraged, stopped drinking alcohol, and gave her life to Christ. She has regained strength, worked selling labor, and has been able to purchase three goats. Her life has improved and there is food at home for her and her son. Many in the community testify of how God has helped her. We pray for the strengthening of her faith.
Rukundo and Ainembabazi struggled to believe, and we continued to visit them until they were willing to allow us to pray for them and they gave their lives to Christ. Rukundo and Ainembabazi and their three young children faced attacks from deadly spirits, and they sought guidance from witch doctors, who could not help them. We met them through our home visits, shared the Word of God with them, and they were healed which led them to destroy the shrines and the herbs they had. They now attend the fellowship in Ruhega and church. The family depends on selling labor to others and subsistence farming on their small piece of land and we pray that God may open financial doors for them to buy enough land for cultivation.
We met Vanise through home visits and found that she had been tormented by spirits ever since she entered her marriage into a family that worshipped spirits. Vanise is married to Emmanuel with two young children. Vanise told us that these spirits would attack her during the night and torment her in her dreams and she would wake up weak and tired. She started drinking alcohol to escape from the torture she was going through. She also sought higher witch doctors to calm the spirits tormenting her, but the witch doctors could not remedy the situation. We prayed for her and invited her to our church for more prayers. We thank God that when she came, we prayed together, and God healed her. She gave herself to Christ and is now in church serving God.
Bosco, who is 17 years old, was saved at church after hearing the Word of God during night prayers. He gave his life to Christ, and the Word of God has transformed him. We pray that he may strengthen his faith and remain serving God.
- We thank God Almighty for the gift of life and His saving grace upon us.
- We thank God that the community is being transformed and people who are lost may know the truth about Jesus Christ.
- We thank God for the place where we worship and pray that God may provide land as church membership is increasing.
- We pray for Bibles for the work of ministry to continue with understanding.
We see God at work in the life of Joviah, aged 69 years, a widow. Her last-born daughter, who is 15 years old, lives with her. Jovia says that at her husband’s burial, the husband’s family did rituals on her because they thought she might later leave the children and go away, maybe back to her parent’s home or get married to another man. She said that as time passed, she started to lose sight until she could not see. Her daughter was then ten years old and in school, but she had to stop school to take care of her mother and even help her to places where her mother wanted to go. Joviah said they tried all they could and went everywhere they could, from witch doctors to opticians back and forth seeking her sight back, but all in vain. One day, her daughter brought her to our fellowship in Kajeyo cell, and her daughter told us about the situation, that she was not seeing us, and that she had been blind for over five years. After the fellowship, we prayed for her, and the next day, we had a prayer meeting in that fellowship, and Joviah was brought to this prayer meeting. We prayed for her again, and God had compassion for her and restored her sight. She was healed from the constant pain she said she always felt in her eyes. When Joviah regained her sight, she decided to give her to surrender her life to the restorer of the blinds’ sight – Jesus Christ. We led her in prayer to receive Jesus Christ in her life, and there was so much awe for the Lord and joy in what the Lord had done to Joviah. One week later, we visited her at home, and she is doing great. Joviah is now a testimony in Kajeyo of how compassionate God is to His people. We praise the name of the Lord, for mercies are new every morning, and great is His faithfulness.
and their children.
Bonifansi, married to Docus, is blessed with two children: Alex, five, and Clarian, seven. They live in a two-room temporary house and earn an income by selling hard labor to work in people’s fields and gardens. Because they worshipped spirits, they practiced a lot of rituals and sacrifices and believed that the more rituals and sacrifices, the more security there would be for their family. When we met them during home visits, we shared the Word of God with them and encouraged them to seek only security from God. We revisited them, and this time, we invited them to join the fellowship in Kajeyo. They were happy we asked them, and when they came, they found it different and liked the fellowship. They made friends and wanted to be part of the fellowship, so they kept coming, but they were afraid because they had a shrine in their home. After some time, they invited the fellowship to pray in their home, and we went there as a whole fellowship and prayed in one accord for them. They gave their lives to Jesus Christ that day, and they surrendered their equipment of spirit worship and their idols, and we burned them. They joined our church, are very committed to the church, and serve on the church ushering team. We thank God for their lives, saving them from the enemy’s grip, and we pray to God to keep growing them in the love for His Word and serving Him.
Miracle, 23, is a single mother with two children: Cosma, one, and Clever, three. She was a drunkard, and we have been visiting, sharing the Word with, and inviting her to church, but she has been refusing. One day, as she was passing by the church and going to the trading center to drink alcohol as usual, she said that she heard a voice telling her to look for us. The following day, she came to our church, and we had a Friday night prayer service; we were preaching about seeking Jesus and how Nicodemus came to Jesus, John 3:1-6. After the service, she repented and gave her life to Jesus Christ. That day, she joined the church and stopped drinking alcohol. Her life is a testimony of how God is gracious and mighty to save even the very lost. She is interested in joining the Praise and Worship Team choir. We pray that she remains firm in faith and keeps serving our God.
An Update from Pastor Sunday
We have seen God working in the life of a man known as Ambrose, forty-six and his child is four years old and known as Precious. Ambrose was a drunkard and an aggressive one. Because of this, he would spend nights out of the house and come home after he had sobered up a bit. At one time he came to the church for counsel and prayers because he was tired of all the challenges that alcohol was bringing to his life. We shared the Word of God with him, and he accepted Jesus Christ into his heart. HE has changed for good, is no longer drinking alcohol and is settled at home with his family. He has even promised to come and study at the Bible College because he is interested in joining the work of the ministry of preaching the Word of God. He is pictured here with his wife, sharing his testimony with Pastor John Sunday.
We praise God for He has given us a place to worship Him. It is a rental house that is no longer being lived in; we removed the walls inside so that we can have enough room.
We are praying to God to provide a way that we may buy more land for the church so that we can have a place of worship that is permanent.
Deodanta is forty-eight and has six children. Felix is thirteen, Olivia is eleven, Patience is fifteen, Bonita is twenty and the other two are residing in a semi-permanent house in Kajeyo zone. Deodanta fell sick and the husband abandoned her in the house and went to live with another woman. She was bedridden for a long time without any medical treatment because she could not afford it. When we found her in her home while we were doing home visits, she could not even get out of bed. We entered her bedroom and prayed with her and believed God to intervene only as God can. The Lord heard her and after some time, she came to church to testify of God’s healing grace to her. She then gave her life to the Lord during the Sunday service. Today she is in church, still standing in faith and serving God in the choir. She is also our treasurer. Her children are also in the choir, and she opened her home to host one of the fellowships that we have started. Deodanta survives by selling hard labor. We pray that God provides for their survival and her children’s school fees.
We have multiple ministries taking place. One group is the church choir, and we have a church youth group.
We are training others to participate in ministry by giving them a chance to serve in leadership in the fellowship and in other programs in the church.
An example of how God is changing lives is that of Nazerious, who is thirty years old. He was working in a fast-food restaurant but had a problem of gluttony to the point that his boss was incurring losses because Nazerious would eat much of the food that was meant to be sold. So, his boss terminated his services and Nazerious went home. Because of the challenges of the time, he resorted to drinking alcohol, he got very sick, and his wife abandoned him. After some time, he came to the church, shared his story with us, and we prayed with him. He surrendered to the Lord and ever since then has changed and is no longer drinking alcohol. When word reached his wife that Nazerous had changed, she came back and now they are together in their home, working together and are at church together. There are a number of homes that had been broken or separated, but when the Word of God is introduced in such families, trust is restored, and families are healed.
The church is reaching the community through home visits and fellowships. We have two fellowships, one in Ruhega and another in Kajeyo zone. This month we visited eight homes and shared the gospel with ten men, fifteen women, and six children. We thank God who enables us every day to His work with such effectiveness. Thank you for supporting us to reach the communities around us with the good news of the gospel.
