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John Sunday
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:
John gave his life to Christ while he was married to two wives. We welcomed him into the church as a member because he was a new believer but not as a leader. They continued attending church with us, and the more we shared the Word of God, the more one of the younger wives pleaded with John to release her. When he released her, she married someone else. John remained with his first wife and came to tell the church how relieved he felt after letting the second wife go. Now he is living faithfully to his one wife in a biblical relationship. (editors note: This is a common occurrence in the ministry because polygamy is legal in Uganda. Our church leaders help families restore the proper relationship of One man married to One woman treating each member of the relationship with justice and fairness).
We have also seen God at work in the life of Nazario, who had separated from his wife, Editor. Editor left two of their three children with him. Life was hard for him, working and looking after the children. The bicycle he used to sell matoke was stolen from him (matoke is a plantain produce common in Uganda). He was advised by relatives to go seek help from the witchdoctor but he says the witchdoctor asked for a lot of money that Nazario was not able to raise. He came to church for God’s help and asked the brethren to stand with him in prayer. We all joined hands together in church and prayed for him about his life, marriage, children, and work. God helped him and restored his marriage and his bicycle that had been stolen from him. We thank God for answering our cry.
Sunday Deudantah was a drunkard because she drank out every shilling she worked for. She lived with four of her children and three grandchildren in Kajeyo village. She started to go to witch doctors to seek power to overcome alcoholism, as she had been advised by one of her drunkard friends. She would go as far as Ntungamo District, about 40km away on foot. We had visited before when we had just started a fellowship in Nyarushanje, and she told us she would not have anything to do with us. We continued to visit her home, though most of the time, the children were the ones we would find at home and share the gospel with. One day, when we visited again, we found her home and shared the Word of God, and this time she sat down and took time to listen to us. She then opened her heart and told us how her husband had tortured her so badly that she decided to go to witch doctors to bewitch him. When the husband found out, he separated from her, and he left for Kampala and has never returned; so she said she always felt too wicked to be accepted before God, and that is why she did not listen to us in the first place. As we continued sharing with her, she eventually accepted Jesus Christ into her heart. We invited her to attend church services with us, and through hearing the Word, she stopped drinking alcohol and then asked to host a fellowship in her home. The fellowship that is in her home hosts fourteen members. She also serves as an usher in church. Her prayer is that the Lord helps her to keep in faith and touches her husband’s heart to come back home. Her family and her home bless the fellowship, and we pray that God may bless her.
Olivia is married to Edmond with one child, 2 years old. We met her during our home visits, shared the gospel with her, and invited her to visit the church service. When she attended, she heard the Word; she was touched, and she gave her life to Christ. She asks that we pray for her husband that he will allow her to always come and attend services and that he, too, may come and know the truth.
Charles is a widower who gave his life to Christ this month. He was in the Anglican religion. When we met him during our home visits. he was very drunk. He became aggressive and violent, but nevertheless, we shared with him the good news. He believed and gave his life to Christ, and we prayed for him. We invited him to church to hear more of the Word of God.
- We praise the Lord for helping us find another place to rent after our first landlord evicted us from his land, though we were still in the middle of our payment. We hope to own our own land.
- Pray for the training of leaders to participate in the ministry. We meet as leaders to share the Word and encourage ourselves in the Lord.
- Pray for our adult choir ministry.
- Pray for our children who prepare songs and learn memory verses and Bible stories.
- Pray for our three home fellowships and for our home visits to share the Good News.
- We bless the Lord for giving us an exciting time of serving His people in this community with hope in the Lord through His Word.
Ongoing 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.
Deuse Turinawae
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:
We have seen God’s mighty hand at work in the life of Glorious. During one of our home visits, we found Akankwasa Glorious struggling with alcoholism, which had caused her husband to leave their home and live on the Lake Edward shores. Her daughter shared with us how her mother would bring strange men into their home and even encourage her to sleep with them. Their house was in a dire state, with a leaking roof and poles eaten away by termites. We ministered to her through the Word of God. After sharing the Word, we prayed for her, and by God’s grace, she gave her life to Christ. She stopped drinking, abandoned her sinful habits, and began to rebuild her life. Today, she has managed to renovate her home and engage in farming to meet her family’s domestic needs.
Peter’s primary source of income was illegal poaching, which put his life in danger. Peter and Scolah, and their two children live in a temporary house with a leaking roof. We visited their home during our home visit and found Peter suffering from severe mental illness for over five years. His wife explained that they had sought help from various witch doctors and herbalists, selling some of their property in the process, but all efforts were fruitless. We advised them to bring Peter to church for prayers. The following day, he was brought to church tied up with ropes. We prayed over him, declaring the Word of God, and the demonic spirits left him. Peter regained his sanity, thanked God for his healing, and gave his life to Christ. Since then, he and his wife actively participate in church activities. We pray that God continues to protect and strengthen this family in their walk with Christ.
We give glory to God for the salvation of Lauben and his wife, Phionah. Lauben was a drug addict, regularly smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. His wife shared similar habits, and as a result, they would often neglect their children’s needs. During one of our home visits, we shared the Word of God with them. Though initially resistant, they eventually accepted Christ into their lives. Through prayer and counseling, Lauben stopped using drugs, and both of them gave up alcohol. They are now active church members, serving the Lord and raising their children in a godly environment.
Praise and Needs of the Church:
- We praise God for providing us with a place to worship. However, this month, the land we have been renting was sold by its owner. We have been granted a grace period to relocate.
- Pray for our outreach to the community through home fellowships and visits. This month, we visited 63 homes and shared the gospel. We have three active fellowships.
Children’s Ministry:
- Pray for our children who meet every Saturday to study the Word of God and practice memory verses. On Sundays, each child is encouraged to recite at least one verse.
- Pray for our children’s choir, Young Ambassadors, which practices weekly and presents songs during the main Sunday service.
Youth Ministry:
- Pray for the youth choir, which has sixteen members and practices every Saturday. The choir learns new songs and dancing skills, which has motivated other youth to join the choir and the church.
- Pray for our youth football team that participates in local tournaments. Before every match, they gather for prayer led by their chaplain, who also encourages them to attend church services.
Ongoing 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.
Julius Mbesigire
The Testimony of Pastor Julius Mbesigire
My parents had nine children and were members of the Anglican church. Our family was known as a religious family, but we were never God-fearing because whenever one of us got sick, our father would send us to consult witch doctors.
Our father believed in the witch doctors and planned to start a family shrine seeking the spirits’ protection for the family. In primary six, I got ill and failed all my exams. My illness got worse until, mentally, I became a lunatic. My father spent much money going to different clinics, hospitals, and consulting witch doctors, but all in vain.
Finally, my father had a friend in our village who believed in Christ. He called him to come and see me and to pray for me that maybe His Jesus might help because my father had given up hope, and he was desperate. My father’s friend came and shared the gospel, and I believed in Jesus as my Lord and Savior. He prayed for me to be healed. I felt the heaviness lift and was eventually wholly delivered. I joined a church choir and served wholeheartedly for eight years.
But there was a problem because that church charged us taxes and required us to make monthly and yearly payments. They insisted on receiving the payments or threatened that we would lose our place in the church. I had nowhere to run to because I feared that I would fall sick if I left their church again.
Hope came when I started listening to Grace So Amazing radio program about the truth and grace in Jesus. Pastor Onesimus’ teaching was different and biblical; I said in my heart that I could leave this mission and join the Fellowship of God’s Embassy and learn more about true biblical teaching.
Julius was a subsistence farmer and a motorcycle mechanic. He joined God’s Embassy after hearing our radio program, Grace So Amazing. He joined a fellowship in his community and was identified as a leader. He has been studying with our pastors weekly and leading that Fellowship for two years. Due to his faithful ministry among the people that Fellowship has become a church. We plan to reach the surrounding communities through home fellowships and community outreaches. We are surrounded by people of different religions that need to hear the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Recent Ministry:
By God’s grace, Rhoda was healed and is now well. During our home visits, we met her and her fourteen-year-old daughter and found Rhoda bedridden with a severe headache that had plagued her for three months. She shared how she had sold some of her property in search of healing, turning to both medicine and witch doctors, but her condition worsened. We encouraged her with the Word of God and prayed for her healing. Today, she joyfully attends church and praises God for her miraculous recovery.
Ibrahim and Prosper were drawn to Christ after experiencing God’s healing power through the radio ministry. Pastor Onesimus was preaching the gospel on Radio Rukungiri, and during the concluding prayer, these two touched their radio in faith. They received healing and were delivered from their family struggles. The following Sunday, they attended our church, testified about their healing, and gave their lives to Christ.
Amos struggled with drunkenness, which caused him to sell property to pay damages he had incurred while intoxicated. The family also faced continuous quarrels and hopelessness. During our visit, we shared the Word of God with Amos and his wife Agness, and they admitted that alcoholism had plagued their family for generations. We prayed for them, and soon after, they began attending church. On their first Sunday, Amos accepted Jesus Christ and vowed to stop drinking alcohol. Today, the family testifies to God’s transformative power. They have managed to purchase some land, goats, and hens. In church, Amos ushers while Agness joins the intercessors, and their young children actively participate in Sunday School.
We praise God for the steady growth of our church membership, which has now reached 120 congregants. We thank God for their persistent commitment to worshiping Him and for the lives being transformed through our ministry.
- Pray for our four home fellowships and for home visits to the community.
- Pray for a piece of land for a permanent establishment for our church.
- Pray for a school to cater to our growing community.
- Pray for income-generating projects such as poultry and piggery to support saints.
Sports Ministry: The church has a youth football team that serves as a tool for evangelism. This has attracted many young people to join the church, some now serving in the choir and other departments.
Children’s Ministry: The Young Ambassadors meet every Saturday to practice songs and dances, which they perform during Sunday services.
Ongoing Ministry:
We see God at work in the life of Annet who was delivered from the torment of evil spirits. Annet and Joseph, have two children, Phionah, 20, and Deus, 12 years. Annet had been involved in evil spirit worship; she heard voices calling her and tormenting her, and she developed a strong, painful headache. She went to the health center for treatment and received medicine, but it did not help to ease the pain. When we visited her home and shared the Word, she received the Word with eagerness and accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. We prayed for her, and God heard our cry, and she was delivered from the spirits, and the headache was healed. She joined our church, is growing in the Lord through discipleship, and serves the Lord in praise and worship.
We have seen God at work throughout the life of Aaron to finish his school and graduate in electric Engineering from Bushenyi. He told us that his studies were not easy when he was in secondary school and that fees were a problem for him. He could only study for four weeks in a term and then would be sent away until he could pay his school fees. He could borrow books and take notes knowing that by the time the fees were due, he would have notes for the term. He thanks God in all situations that God remained with Him through his school life, and in senior five to senior six, God provided him with sponsorships, and he was able to finish well and graduate. He now has a job. We thank God for such people in our church and are happy that they will be able to help us in preaching the gospel and in the ministry.
The family of Eric was in extreme poverty when we met them through a home visit. Eric and Eunice, are blessed with five children: Joseph, 19, Profit, 17, Arinda, 11, Shanitah, 9, and Linate, 8 years. The family depends on subsistence farming and selling labor to others. Previously, Eric was a drunkard, and his debts were accumulating. He had a garden of coffee and would sell the coffee beans and use all the money to buy alcohol. We shared with him the Word of God and encouraged him to believe God to change his family if they accepted him in their lives. We prayed for them and invited them to come to our church. The Word of God touched them, and the next day, they came to our church and gave their lives to Christ. They are faithful to the church, and Eric is serving God in the development of the Church. The children are in choir and grandchildren are in Sunday school. We praise God for this family, and we request His helping hand upon them so that they may remain in God’s grace and serve Him.
Jeninah started drinking after the death of her husband and became a drunkard. Jeninah lives with her two children, Aggress, 26, and Seth, 17 years, and two grandchildren, Rennah, 12, and Praise, 9 years. They lived in a temporary house with three rooms, depended on subsistence farming, and her children were unable to pay the school fees. We shared the Word of God and encouraged her to pay a visit to our church, but at first, she could not come, fearing that her fellow Anglicans. One day, she became demonically attacked and could hear sand falling on her house every night. When she told her friends, they advised her to go to witch doctors. Instead, she came to our church for prayers, we prayed for her, and then went and prayed in her home. She gave her life to Christ, was delivered from the spirits, and stopped drinking alcohol. We pray that God may strengthen their faith as they remain in prayer and committed to the church.
When visited Abel and his grandmother and shared the Word of God, Abel was convicted. Able 17 has lived with his grandmother since the death of his parents. He stopped schooling in primary seven, started smoking marijuana, and joined a bad group. After our home visit, he came to church, believed in Jesus Christ, gave his life to Christ, and accepted to be baptized. We thank God for him and pray that God may continue guiding him in his new faith.
Afissa came to our church because she heard our pastor on Radio Rukungiri, and the gospel touched her heart. she confessed and gave her life to Christ. Afissa is married to Geoffrey 60, and they have four children that are all in Kampala. She was a Moslem and a drunkard, but now she wants God to use her, and she was baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Reaching out to the community through the radio has helped people join the ministry and we pray to God for people like her who were convicted and to join the church.
We believe God in prayer and work hard to build a strong relationship with our landlord so that she will sell us the land we are renting and on which we have built our church structure. We thank God that we have managed to buy an amp mixer for the church system that will help us balance our church sound during our church services.
Steven, age 83, is married to Joseline Natukunda, who is 80. They live in a temporary house and survive through agriculture; they have a coffee plantation and a matooke plantation from which they earn an income. Their grandchild Derrick who is 17 years old and senior two at Bugangari Secondary School, is staying with them. Steven has allowed his grandson to serve with us, and Derrick is in the youth dance and drama youth choir, Kingdom Steppers. We met this family through our home visits and found that Steven was a drunkard and had diabetes. Doctors had tried to stop him from drinking alcohol, but he failed to listen. We visited him several times, sharing the Word of God with him. We thank God that when we invited him to pay us a visit at church, he came, and after the service, he said he wanted to be saved. We led him to confess Jesus Christ in his life, and we prayed for him. He has since stopped drinking alcohol, has joined our church, and is now serving in our church. We pray for him that the Lord, in His mercies, may age Steven gracefully and that he may keep the faith.
Albert has accepted the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. He is married to Justine and does not have children. When we met Albert, he was a violent drunkard and physically abusive to his wife. We approached him and shared the Word of God, but he was argumentative at first. We tried to explain to him the dangers of alcohol to his body and the diseases that may come from alcoholism. We invited him to church, and he came with his wife. The preaching was about salvation; the message from John 3:1-20 and 3:16 was that God loves all of us and we can have eternal life through our faith in Jesus Christ. Albert listened, and after the service, he requested to give his life to the Lord. He confessed Christ in his life and was saved.
Learning Godly Doctrine and Hermeneutics
We warmly greet you, all our friends and supporters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We give God all the glory for you and thank Him for enabling you to work with us. We are forever grateful that you chose to love, encourage, and support us financially. For this reason, we are more effective in ministering to the people in the Nyabiteete community and its surrounding communities. Thank you for standing with us in the work of ministry; may the Almighty God bless you always.
We praise God for Uganda Bible College, helping us and other church ministers learn the Bible. For this reason, we are sharing the Gospel from an informed point of view, knowing how to even counteract false doctrine in our community by teaching the truth of the Bible. We thank God for the new members who join us because we teach them the truth. So far, twelve members, eight females and four males, came from the Anglican religion who oppose our faith.
We believe God will also help us learn English at Uganda Bible College so that we can read it since many of the resources that would be helpful to equip us are in English.
We thank God for the place we rent, but we pray to God to provide the funds to buy it as the owner is willing to sell. We believe more people will join us when we have enough space and our own property.
As a church, we also need a secondary school in our village because our children walk a long distance to a secondary school daily, which is dangerous; we believe God will answer our prayers.
We have four community fellowships in different homes with more than 18 people each. These fellowships are the Kakyekyeyo cell, led by Tukamuhabwa Vaster; the Burembo cell, led by Kamugisha Enoch; the Nyabiteete Trading Center cell, led by Tushemerirwe Loy; and the Burambira cell, led by Naturinda Justin.
We visited 52 homes, where we met 147 males and 213 females. Some of these people promised to come to visit us someday at church. We bless the name of the Lord, who calls and uses us to share His Word with His people.
We met Orishaba Obadiah, age 39, during our home visits while he was going to the nearby trading center. He is a drunkard but has come to a church service. Now, he wants to know the nearby fellowship cell where he can attend. We pray that God can work in his heart as he learns the truth.
We have seen God at work in the life of Phionah Tumuhimbise, age 32. She is married to Turyasingura Elias, age 38, and they now have two children together: Owembabazi Annette, age 10, and Baguma Patrick, age one and a half. When this family joined us, they had one child, and they told us that she had been having miscarriages or giving birth to still babies over nine times, and she had tried every witch doctor she knew. Having failed with the witch doctors, she came to try Jesus. She came to church, we shared the Word, and she believed Jesus. We started praying with her and asking God in His mercies to help her give birth to another child. She later conceived, and sometimes she would be traumatized by the past experiences of miscarriages, thinking she would lose the baby again, but we encouraged her to trust God. We stood with her in prayer. We thank God she gave birth to her second child, Patrick, and she is grateful to the Lord who makes the barren fruitful and sustains the lives of His people. As a family, they thank God for bringing a church that is teaching them the Word of God, whose truth is setting and delivering them for free because the other traditional religious churches had asked her for gifts before being prayed for, which she could not afford and yet another so-called prophet told her to go to witch doctors.
I have seen God working in the life of James Zegiriire, age 83, married to Beitamu Adrine, age 79, with seven children, and all with their own families. He thanks God, who has been faithful to him through battles between his two sons who wanted to kill him and take his properties. Through the encouragement and the support of the church, he survived these court battles.
Naturinda Justin, age 35, is a widow with four children; two are in secondary school, and two are in primary: Kirabo Daisy Kakuru, age 14; Kiconco Denise Kato, age 14; Tracy Arinda, age 11; and Akankunda Brandon, age 9. They are residents of Burambira, and they live in a semi-permanent home. They are subsistence farmers and occasionally sell hard labor for an income. We met them through home visits. They were fellowshipping with Revival church Kashenyi, the church of the Apostle. Still, they welcomed us because they had been listening to the Grace So Amazing radio program and loved our ministry and the fact that it taught the Word of God in truth. Even during our visit, their church had levied church taxes on them, which was a lot of money they could not afford. They had stopped attending church, and she had resorted to drinking alcohol and said she no longer cared about God since the church she was attending was not interested in their souls and spiritual lives but just interested in money only. We shared the Word of the Truth and encouraged her to come to the Lord. She heeded the Word and committed her life to Christ; she now attends church with his family. Two children serve in Sunday school, and the others are in the church choir.
We train others in ministry through fellowships and Tuesday classes. We meet and share the Word of God and do the work plan for the church with the team. We select who will be the programmer and teacher at Sunday school. We emphasize being good leaders and encourage ourselves through the Word of God. In addition to the Tuesday meeting, individuals who show interest in getting involved in ministry are trained in the Sunday morning foundation class and are encouraged to practice through fellowships, attend Tuesday prayer meetings, and get involved in doing home visits.
The youth choir practices presentations and engages the youth in church activities and youth festival competitions. The Young Ambassadors meet every Saturday from 3.00 to 5.30 pm.
Turyetemba Martin, age 23, and Twesigye Gideon, age 19, sons of Ephraim Rukandema, a resident of Burembo cell, have given their lives to Jesus Christ. We met these young men at their home, shared the Word of God with them, and they believed. We invited them to church to attend service with us, and when they came, they accepted Christ in their lives after hearing the Word. We pray the Lord keeps them in faith, that they may also love serving the Lord when they are still young, and that they may lead more youth to Christ.
Turinawe Jennifer, age 86, is a resident of Burambira. She came from the Anglican Nyamagabo Church of Uganda. She stays with her son, Tumuhimbise Julius. After the death of her husband, she began to drink, became a drunkard, and lived a careless, sinful life. One day, she tuned in to the Grace So Amazing radio program and was convicted to give her life to Christ. She came to church hoping to meet the radio preacher and has since attended church services. God has made her well, and we give all the glory to Him.
Previous Ministry:
We have seen God at work in the life of Deborah, aged twenty-six, married to Obed Kiiza of twenty-nine years residing in Nyabitete cell. We met Deborah when she was pregnant; her pregnancy was challenging, and she was admitted to the hospital. We thank God that she was able to give birth to a healthy baby girl. Many women here lose their life while giving birth, but we thank God that Deborah is fine and the baby is growing.
We thank God for His saving grace and sustaining us in the ministry. The community is receptive to the Word of God and many people come to visit us. Some of these come to faith and surrender their lives to Christ. Many more are coming to join us for the first time to worship the Lord. This month, we baptized four members.
Our church needs are for land for the church building, machines for sound to advance our worship, and a school for our children.
We meet all the members willing to be intercessors every Wednesday for prayers. On Fridays, we meet for altar call and to share the Word of God. We also allow every person to participate in sharing Scripture verses in the fellowships. We let some ministers lead the church programs and Sunday school.
We have a choir that meets every Saturday for practice and the choir has eleven members. We begin with sharing the Word of God before we commence the practice. We have Sunday school for the children where they learn the Word of God through memory verses and Bible stories.
We met Joseph at his home. He is forty-five years old and married to Nantukunda Monic who is thirty-five years old. He had been a drunkard but after sharing the Word, he prayed to received Jesus Christ as His Lord and Savior. He now comes to church and testifies that since he received salvation, he no longer drinks alcohol.
We reach out to the community through fellowships. We have four fellowships that meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. We also do home visits and this month we preached in eight homes, reaching out to twenty-three males and thirty-three females.
