Recent Ministry:
By the grace of God, our church attendance is increasing. People are coming to faith and worshiping with us at the church. We now have over forty-five members in total. Your financial support is helping our ministry as we share the gospel in the community and the surrounding area.
We have seen God’s healing hand and power in the life of Fred, eight-five, a resident of Bikurungu town council. He had wounds all over his leg that caused great pain, and eventually, paralysis and an inability to walk. He was struggling with basic tasks such as eating and drinking. He and his family believed he had been bewitched. We came to their house as we were doing home visits and after sharing the gospel, we prayed with Him and believed in God with him for the hand of healing upon him. We thank God that when we visited for a second time, we found Fred outside and drinking porridge. He told us that he could now walk, and the wounds were drying up and healing. He said that when he is able to walk further, he will come to church. We give God the glory!
The number of families in the church has increased to twenty-five. We have a membership of over forty people, with twenty men, and twenty-five women. Our target by the end of the month is to have reached fifty-five church members.
Our prayer need is for land for the church. We meet in one of the classrooms of a neighboring school that we rent to meet in and sometimes we are inconvenienced by the changing school programs. As we grow in number, we also have the need for sound machines for the church to use during worship services.
The church worship team meets for practice every Thursday and Saturday at three pm. During this practice time, they learn songs and prepare for church worship services. They also read the Bible together and encourage each other in the Word of God.
Our Sunday school can accommodate twenty children and they have a choir of twelve kids called the Young Ambassadors. They meet every Saturday in preparation to minister during the church services. We are praying for the parents to be able to afford a t-shirt uniform for the Young Ambassadors that will help to motivate the children and also encourage more children to be excited to come to church.
Daniel is twenty-five, married, a father of twins, and a resident of Nyaamihuku. He has given his life to Christ. We met him during our home visits, shared the Word, and invited him to come to our church to visit us. Daniel came with a friend and after the service, he gave his life to Christ. He shared that he had been a drunkard and a womanizer, but he has since changed after surrendering his life to Jesus. He is now on the worship team and serving diligently. We give all the glory to God for transforming Daniel. Praise the Lord!
We are reaching the community through home visits. We thank God that this month we visited fifteen homes and shared the gospel with twenty-three males, and fifty-six females. We are praying that some of them who promised to come will indeed come to church and be touched by God and will accept Jesus Christ. We thank God for the opportunity to be used by Him in the community.
The Testimony of Pastor Wilber
I was born into a family which mostly believed in witchcraft and worshiped spirits. My father had forty-two children from three wives. Many died through the years because the family was involved with witch doctors, and they blamed the spirits for the death of the children, accusing my family of not appeasing the family spirits.
Only nine siblings are still alive. Of all the children, our grandfather liked me the most and wanted me to be the successor managing his spirits; he had built a shrine at our home where we worshiped that involved sacrificing animals. After our grandfather’s death, I could not control these spirits, and our lives went crazy. My relatives wanted me to be the religious leader of these spirits, but I had seen the havoc they had caused in the family, and I chose to run to church to denounce them.
That is where I heard the gospel, gave my life to Christ for protection, and started studying the Bible for discipleship. I have been following the radio program Grace So Amazing, taught by Pastor Onesimus, and introduced it to other members of my village.
We are reaching the village of Bikurungu in the Rukungiri District.
