Recent Ministry:
God’s work can be seen in Katushabe Hope’s life. She is married to Tugume Enoch and the mother of three children: Sephert, Solomon, and Pamela. She previously struggled with alcohol addiction, which strained her marriage and prevented her from attending church. Her children were already going to God’s Embassy, and we contacted her during a home visit. After hearing the Word, she felt moved and decided to visit our church. The following Sunday, she surrendered her life to Christ. She now testifies to a changed life and has joined the fellowship at God’s Embassy Ruteete.
We have witnessed God’s power in the life of Tumuheirwe Provia, a 70-year-old widow living in Kahenda, Ruteete. She resides with her 5-year-old granddaughter, Kyampera Akanyihayo, a church member. Tumuheirwe was seriously ill, experiencing severe stomach pain, a high fever, and vomiting. Her condition worsened, leaving her bedridden and unable to eat or stand. We were notified and promptly visited her at home. We prayed and shared the Word of God with her. We encouraged her to seek medical help, and thank God for that. God worked through the treatment, and she regained her strength; the pain stopped, and her appetite returned. Today, she is fully healed and has resumed attending church, giving all the glory to God.
God has transformed the life of Monday, aged 59 years, a widower without children and a drunkard. After the death of his wife, he resorted to drinking alcohol. We found him drunk and talked to him about Jesus, who can set him free from alcoholism. We invited him to visit us at church, and when he came and heard the Word, he was touched and gave his life to Christ. As he kept hearing the Word, he realized he needed to stop drinking alcohol, so he prayed and instituted measures in his life to help him stop drinking alcohol. He has changed and is no longer an alcoholic.
Josephat is now a living testimony in our community that only Jesus Christ can save man. He was a worshiper of spirits and a fortune teller to earn an income. He was raised a Catholic and is a widower and a father of six children between the ages of fourteen and thirty. We met him and his family during our home visits, and we visited several times, sharing the Gospel with them. When Josephat gave his life to Christ, he asked us to help burn his shrine, which we did. He tells people, especially his former fortune teller clients, the truth that there is only one Savior, Jesus Christ, who can set their lives free from sin. His children are now attending church with us, and we pray the Lord touches their hearts to accept Him because some have not yet confessed to Christ. We thank God for transforming Josephat.
We met Charles Tumwijukye, 34, single and drunk, on our way to visit another family. We shared with him about the love of God and invited him to visit us at church to attend Sunday service with us. He came, and at the end, he gave his life to the Lord. He has attended Sunday service with us all through this month. We pray he keeps in faith and lives a transformed life.
- Pray for the growing number of Sunday school children who come every Saturday for practice. They learn Bible stories and songs that they present to their parents in the Sunday service when ready.
- Pray for the three fellowships in different villages. Each fellowship has over fifteen members, some of whom are still in the traditional religion who we invite to join us and hear the truth of the Gospel.
- Please continue to pray for us as we make bricks to build a brick church instead of the timber shell one we have, which is being affected by termites.
Ongoing Ministry:
We met Pamela when she was sick, and her legs had been paralyzed for over four months. Pamela 16 years was unable to go to school. Her family looked for help from doctors to help her walk, but she did not get better. When we visited her, shared the Word of God, and prayed for her, she was healed. She thanks God for what He did for her, and she gave her life to Christ. We pray that God may help her to remain safe and protected as she remains in prayer. We pray that she might be a living testimony to others.
We thank God for delivering Agnes from the spirits and healing her from being a cripple. Agnes, 27 years is a single mother with one child. When we met her through our home visits, we realized her family worshiped spirits and that she was demon-possessed. During attacks, she would call for help from beings she saw but others could not see. We prayed for her and told her to trust God who heals. As we prayed for her on that day, she was delivered from the spirits who left with loud voices, but she still could not walk or go outside. However, the next Sunday she came to church walking unassisted and testified what God did to her. We pray that God may continue protecting her against any form of attack that may come her way.
Ruteete Kingdom Steppers choir
We thank God for Ruteete church members who have united to make bricks for the church building. Termites are eating away and destroying our timber-shell church structure, compromising its stability and strength. Our vision is to make over twenty thousand bricks to help us to build a permanent church. We have seven hundred more to make. We also envision making ten thousand bricks for a water tank to harvest rainwater from our church roof to help the church and the community since water is from very far away.
We see God at work in the life of Doreen married to Nelson, and pray the Lord grants her a child. She has been married for four years and has no children. While we were doing home visits, we found her in her home sick with fever and no means of seeking medical care. We prayed and trusted God with her for healing. We are thankful to God that she has recovered. She is well and able to do her work. She is grateful to God for healing her.
Edward and Judith are blessed with two children who have their own families. Their grandchild, Akampurira Junior, who is six years old, currently stays with them. We met this home through our home visits and found that Edward was a drunkard, violent, and fighting with neighbors. Due to drunkenness, he had sold some of his properties to purchase alcohol. When we met him, we shared with him the Word of God and invited him, together with his wife, to come to our church to see the goodness of the Lord. When they arrived, they intended to compare us with the religion they were in but decided to join us when they found out that we were different from their religion. After attending Sunday services with us, they believed in the Lord and gave their lives to the Lord, confessing Jesus Christ as Savior. Edward has stopped drinking alcohol entirely, and they have managed to work and buy a piece of land where they are currently farming. They are a blessing to the church because of their service; Judith serves God as an usher, and Edward serves God in the development team. We pray to God to open more doors of finances so they can buy more land for farming and continue serving God.
Esther, 28, is married to Rodgers, 32, and is the mother of one child, who is two years old. Esther was a drunkard and abusive and violent to her husband. She could not respect him, and the neighbors waited to see the family break apart. She was in village courts over her violence. When we visited and shared the Word of God with her, she believed and gave her life to Jesus Christ. She has changed, stopped drinking alcohol, and stopped her fighting and abuse.
We praise God that we are not renting as a church but have church land and our church structure built. We believe God will help us build a permanent church building because the timber structure poles are being eaten by termites and weakened by rainwater, which is making the structure weak from underneath the ground.
