Recent Ministry:
Making Bricks to Build a Church
Warm greetings to all our friends in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior. We thank God for the opportunity to serve His people in this community. Your support has helped us be effective in ministry. May God bless you in abundance.
We train members by teaching them to read the Bible and giving them opportunities to lead in fellowships and share their testimonies while on home visits. The Praise and Worship Team combines adults and youth, and they meet every Saturday for practice from 4 – 6 p.m. The youth who are not on the Worship Team are in the dancing and drama group. They, too, train at church at the same time and on the same day. Ushering meets every Tuesday and Saturday to clear bushes, dig trenches, and clean the church for Sunday service.
Our church is reaching the community through home visits and home fellowships. We have three in the areas of Kahenda cell, Ndaramira cell, and Ruteete, and each fellowship is from 3 – 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week. This month, we visited and shared the Gospel in thirty-one homes with eighty-nine females and seventy-six males. We pray that God touches them so that they come to Him.
We praise God this month for enabling us this far by making mud bricks to help us build a brick-and-mortar church structure. Termites are eating away and destroying our timber-shell church structure, compromising its stability and strength. We have seven hundred more to make. We envision making over 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, 29, married to Nelson, 32. 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. We pray the Lord grants her a child.
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.
A First Prayer Report
We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and thank you, our supporters, and friends from White Field Ministries. Thank you for your continuous love, prayers, and financial support. Because of you, we are blessed to minister to the people of Ruteete and the surrounding communities.
We reach out to the community through fellowships in the home of Komuyaga Joviah, which rotates; in this fellowship, we do follow-ups. We have other fellowships in Kahenda in the home of Prexedah Asiimwe every Wednesday, in Ndaramira in the home of Karyaija Gelesim every Tuesday, and in Ruteete every Thursday. We have intercessors for the adults.
We also reached out to the community through home visits, visited 41 homes, and reached 115 males and 155 females.
We praise God that as a church we are not renting but have church land and our church structure built. We believe God will help us so that we may be able to build a permanent church building because the timber structure poles are being eaten by termites and weakened by the rainwater, which is making the structure weak from underneath the ground.
