November Newsletter
Our
special greetings to you brethren! Merry Christmas to you all! Christmas is
just at the door! We praise the Lord for that.
In
our spiritual Formation group materials, (The
character for the follower of Jesus-designed by campus crusade ministry)
there is a statement that has impacted our lives and we would love to share it
with you.
“…
you already know the benefit of personal Bible Study — what it means to search
the scriptures and discover Jesus as the way, the Truth and the Life. You have
probably noticed that responding to God and experiencing His Word affects your
attitudes and actions day by day”.
At
Lungala Bible Ministries Uganda, Bible study programs have been so crucial and are fundamental to the
growth of this ministry. As the writer has put it above, a keen follower of God's
Word can’t live un noticed. As you see in the photo bellow, Students from St.
John's Secondary School have been part of our bible programs. We have just
awarded them certificates of completion. Our groups are always a mixture of
people from different faiths. Amazingly, Shakirah and Hellen: who joined this
program and didn’t know the Lord, now they are part of the school chapel that
proclaims the Word of God. They received Jesus as their Saviour. They couldn’t
attend and let the Word of God and go unnoticed! Christianity Explored ministry
affected them and eventually, Jesus was seen live in their lives.
On that graduation,
we also cut a cake.
Christianity Explored student sharing the
cake with others.
It
was not enough for a very one, but at list a few students had a test. This was
done in front of the whole school, the headmaster was there and school
teachers. Most students have showed interest in this program. We had
testimonies, how this program has impacted them and reciting the books of the
bible. The headmaster made a remark, “ We like your programs, there are
students whose behaviors have changed from your ministry. Shakirah now is a
good student, trust worthy and hard working”. He said.
We
also had Fundamentals Of Faith graduation.
This took place at Kisugu Secondary School.
This graduation took place while there was a parent's day visitation. It was a big crowd. There were 13 students in total who passed to graduate. The parents were so happy gave gifts to their students. The director said remarkably to Edith Nakaye ( a school metron to girls and involved in our ministry) “Your such administer of the Lord. Every where you go, your always involved in ministry “. The director said to her. We were given a worm welcome and this school has freely opened up to us. Most of these students are already involved in ministry in their local churches.
The second meeting
with university students; as we shared with you last
month, the Lord has been gracious. We started a university youth ministry.
Lungala
Community Bible Church is steadily growing. We really praise the Lord for the
number He adds to His Church. During the massive youths evangelism day (with
youths from Kampala), Mrs Joice got born again and all her family. She seems to
very committed. She recently got herself a bible from here. She also convinced
other two ladies and have been coming to church since then,early morning, they
attend the devotion we have before the service starts. She said this, “ I
prepare for a Sunday day as early as possible so that I don’t miss the devotion
with my friends”.
Alex dedicating a baby on Sunday. The first newly born baby in this church.
Photo of our church on Sunday
Some
of you who have been following our updates via What’sApp, I called our village
chairman Kalungi Erenests, whose
daughter (32 years old and mother of 3
kids) had tried to kill herself with poison. My call came early morning, “Pastor
Alex, came and pray for my older sister! She is dying…”. As a team from our
church, we reached this home (where witchcraft has taken place for
generations). The chairman knew about our coming but dodged us. Being that he
owns hats for evils spirits. Nanfukah, a M… girl was in a bad state, she could walk
nor eat. We shared the word and prayed for her. After one week, that’s when I called her
father and I arranged with him. This time he was present, and I confronted him
about evil alters and evil spirits of the dead in his home. He told me, while
looking at me in the face, my son, I inherited this from grands. Pray for him that
God will make it clear and give him power to leave it. This event was God
honouring, I have always wanted to share the gospel with this family, but they
would not let me. During this event, Nanfukah, received Jesus as her Saviour. She
got well, she can walk. She later came to our church, to have counseling. She
came in full black attire for M….s. I was scared to take a photo of her. She
now reads her bible and she has forgiven herself against the evil action she
had taken against herself.
The ministry of the Bible: this
ministry has tremendously touched people from all backgrounds.
As
a ministry, we continue to face financial challenges, we would love to do more than
this, but we are incapable in some areas. We get limited, if you feel God is
leading you to support this ministry, feel free to let us know.
This
in Norah who leads a ministry near lake Victoria. She oftenly takes bibles from
here to believers in deep villages.
We are planning to start a spiritual
formation group in a near by community where there no church. Three homes have
welcomed us. No one is born again from these homes, but they are interested and
loving our ministry to have a monthly meeting at one of members’ home. Last
month we gathered at Nakalyowa Proscovia's home. The house was nearly full. As
you remember, her husband who abandoned her is a man who believe in the worship
of evil spirits. Proscovia is now a vibrant spiritual woman and her daughters. Every month we meet at her
house and she invites the neighborhoods. Las meeting we had a lady whose faith
is Islam, she said, “I love to fellowship with you here and would you please
pray for my family “. She hasn’t come to church neither believed Jesus. We meet
people like this all the time in Spiritual formation Groups.
Our farm:
The season for passion fruits is out.
Although we think by February we will be picking up again. We have young ones
growing. Some have started to put flowers.
Our two pigs are two months and twenty seven
days pregnant. As you see, they look heavier
Recently I castrated one
male pig, it died after one week. Alex usually wants try out new things in
farming. But this time he lost it. We normally do most of doctors' work ourselves
and we had never lost any animal.
We
thank all of you we have always encouraged
us either your phonecalls, WhatsApp messages, emails and Facebook messages. May God bless you. We
thank you for your prayers, if it was not you, we would hardly reach this far.
Continue
to pray for
Alex's wedding with Carolyn
Kembabazi
Ministry support
and
Lungala Bible
Ministries Uganda to steadily reach out to people
Alex and Simon (Uganda, Africa)
OCTOBER news from Lungala Bible Ministries
Greetings brethren! Updates from Lungala
Bible Ministries Uganda. We feel glad to share with again what God has led us
and the body of other believers to accomplish in this ministry.
“The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble,
And He knows those who take refuge in Him,”. (Nahum 1:7)
As
the scripture is put above, the Lord has been good to us as the ministry, in many
ways. When this term began, Christianity Explored class kicked off.
Alex leading the discipleship class. Another girl from this group
has given her life to Jesus. Now the whole group is full of people who trust
the saving grace of Jesus. We praise the Lord. I will send you her picture In
the next report. We are trusting God that in this next two month we will be
able to graduate this group. We usually give them a gift to encourage them or
design certificates. We praise the Lord for this group.
Farming God’s way; Our farming is going well.
Our two female pigs are one month pregnant. They look
good although this time we did not take a photo for you. We also have some more
other piglets. Our farm is growing. The Lord has given us steady rains. We
bless His Holy Name.
Sports outreach team from Zana
Presbyterian Church:
From left;
Alex, Bukenya and a
friend who
came to do evangelism.
We came back to church, we
had lunch, all people ate, except the sodas were not enough. As you see in the
photos, brethren from Zana had mixed with the village youths especially those
that are on the village football. After lunch, we had a worship, and a
scripture from Alex (Matthew 22:37-39). The neighbours, especially those from
none believing homes were patient. The Holy Spirit touched them and sat and
listened to the Word of God
Children Ministry:
We have been praying and
trusting God for a childrens Sunday teacher, God has brought this lady
(Ms. Nakaye). She is such a
strong servant of the Lord. She loves children and very ministry creative
woman. She also modeling other young girls who can do this work is case she is
not around. She is the one right there.
As
we update about this ministry growth, please continue to pray for provision and
putting pavers in the church. Dust is becoming too much, especially when kids
roll in the dust. Pray that God will provide especially us who take the main
leading for this ministry. Alex’s wedding has been held back, it was originally
supposed to take place in November, but it might be hard to do this. Please
continue to pray for God’s sustainability.
May
God bless for loving to follow our ministry and farming updates.
September 2017 Newsletter
We hope that
God has continually showed His love. As our custom, we usually want to share
with you a reading of the month or sometimes a touching article from any of
reading. Isaiah 41:8-9
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the
offspring of Abraham my friend, You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its
corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you
a way”
The Lord has
been good to this ministry. On
high hills and valleys, the Lord has not left His work that He does daily in
this ministry. As the verse above says, He has not cast His people away. His hand is evident in all corners.
After the
inaugural service event we had on August 12, two people reached out to us. Let
us share about one, “Fred whom we met when this ministry started; had been born
again for over three years. He had never got a zeal to buy a bible nor to study
it. He says after meeting us, that is when he felt a desire for a Bible, to own
one, read it and obey it. He said, this did not leave him the same, he has
experienced the comfort of God through the life on loneliness and distrustful
life he had been walking over past years. He said that in tears. That we helped
him to observe God's word and hence feeling the comfort of God).
Here we were
clearing the bushes, from the side of the track that leads to church,together
with other church members.
Now, to be honest with you that testimony was humbling to
us! - who are we! For us we are just small boys doing God's work in the
village! We didn’t know that there was a broken heart waiting for comfort since
we started this ministry! As time goes on, we will ask him to write his
testimony in full and you can have it. There are many more similar cases are
many in African churches (syncretism). We will continue this work as the Lord
enables us to reach out to His.
The vision of
this project is to extend our ministry activities to the university students
and the youth, with the aim to make them Christ’s ambassadors in their future
work places and to be involved in serving the Lord in their home churches.
Project definition for youths in this
ministry:
It is of the
fact that Uganda has 85 percent youth according to the national statistics,
when this is realized it is upon us a Christian organization to empower these
youth to be able to take on the mantle. If the church doesn’t take on this call
we are facing a tragedy of the church dying with the old generation. The
project is aiming at overcoming this problem.
This project
will be running during the two semesters in the year and will be enrolling
students from all the nearby compasses. And some non-schooling youths who might
be interested. This program will be conducted in English.
Materials/Resources:
1.
Strictly
Campass Crusade materials
2. Inviting 1 to 2 public
speakers each month when we can afford it.
3. One outreach each month.
4.
We
will be doing one lesson each meeting in one week.
The meetings
will be taking place at different school premises.
Responsibilities: Objectives
for this program
-
Evangelism
and Discipleship -
How to read the Bible
-
Christian
in market place - Discovering your gifts
-
Servant
leadership - Assurance of salvation
-
Inviting
the speakers
In Africa we have a proverb ‘Emiti emito je' gikuma ekibira' easily
translated as ‘Young trees keep the forest'.
Similarly, youths are the next generation. They are church/ politician leaders of
tomorrow. So, when God helps us to reach out to them, we are building a firm generation.
Alex was invited to preach in youth conferences. The
first meeting there was not a good turn up – 3 students gave their lives to
Jesus.
Lungala Community Bible Church is daily growing. As you
saw in the last report, we have a permit for the church, and now we have a bank
account for the church. We have also been able to have the Tin number for the
ministry.
These seem easy to communicate, but it has been a tag of
war. Only the Lord could help us overcome those documents. Now, what that means
is that, if you ever feel volunteering with us, the government would easily
give you work permit. Or if you ever feel donating anything to the ministry, you
will find it easier. We praise God for this.
After getting herself a new bible. She had never had one.
She now attends all fellowships and Sundays.
In this month Simon had Malaria. He was tested positive
but he was able to get medication right a way. He is now well. But Malaria
continues to be a challenge in our area.
We plan to have an event on 23rd/December 2017. Please
pray that it will go well. The card for invitation is on left.
It’s at this time that we remember your brother Daniel
and you wife Renee, together the whole of your family. As your brothers in
Africa, we are continually interceding on your behalf that His glory and beauty
will hold your hearts in the midst of adversity as a family (Psalm 55:22).
We thank you all people who wilfully reads our reports and
all your encouragements, we too have never forgotten you in our prayers.
Please pray for
December 23th event (Christmas in the village)
Lungala Community Bible church sustainability
Continuous provision for bibles
In the Lamb
Simon and Alex (Uganda-Africa).
CHURCH OPENING SERVICE
Great
News from Lungala Community Bible Church.
As
you have been following our reports - last Saturday we had an inaugural service,
over 200 people came. The Lord was so gracious to us, there was no rain to
disorganize us.
Alex was the main preacher of the day.
We
had Salima give her life to Jesus - let’s keep her in prayer that not commotions will
arise from her husband.
As you will see in the photos, pastors and church
leaders later prayed and commissioned Alex and Simon for pastoral work here. The Lord has
given us responsibility over this church. As some of you know, this is a Faith
ministry, but the Lord keeps us going on a daily basis.
Now
this church is registered, we received the church permit today. We are now
operating fully under the Laws that govern church in Uganda. Thanks
and enjoy looking at the photos.
July 2017 Newsletter
Here's what
our gracious Lord is doing in Lungala Bible Ministries.
We pray for you that
are not fine and are going through hard trials, may His peace and comforting
hand be upon you and lead you through.
The
Word of the Month, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open
your mouth wide, and I will fill it” Psalm
81:10.
‘Psalms 81:10, is the passage the famous George
Muller the Lord put upon his heart when he was faced with challenges of
finances in his plans to expand the ministry, to be able to give gospel trucks
and begin an institution for missionaries’.
Its
again our great privilege and opportunity to share with you what the Lord has
done here. The Lord has continuously exhibited His mighty hand over this Community Church
(Lungala Community Bible Church) beyond what we can understand.
As you already know,
12th August will be our official day of opening
this church communally. We have invited and are still inviting our village neighbors both born again
and those that aren’t. It will be evangelistic service, we expect 200 people.
We will also have a light lunch with them since we will be finished by lunch
time.
They can’t wait to see this day reach. As a
church, we are working hard at different times to make sure the bushes on
our foot path are cleared and the weed around the church as you see on the right is photo. The service will
start at 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, at our home compound where the church is. If your
reading this and would want to join us, you are more than welcome.
We
get surprised when we have church work, some ladies and men come to help
and do church work. May God bless them more especially their souls J
This
was one of the days that we normally slash off the bushes
We
need to level the ground, put up the flaps of the tent, to get more space and
also be fetching water from the well. It is such a tedious moment both spiritually
and physically. A couple of days the witchdoctors spent days calling on their
evil spirits. But we the Lord’s church will prevail over Satan’s darkness. If
you have been following our newsletters, continue to pray about this, we live
in a community where witchcraft is practiced a lot. We thank God that we have churches that are teaming up with us to see that people get to the gospel.
Lungala-Community
Bible Church is steadily growing, reaching out to the hearts of people both in
equipping church leaders and evangelism. Recently a former lady ‘ Mrs.
Loyi’, whom we met in our evangelism days, had got born again but she had back
slid. She now joins this community church but she has no bible yet.
As we shared with in our last newsletter, we have
no bibles at the moment. All Luganda Bibles are finished. People call us on a
weekly basis to see if we have bibles yet and others come to our home to find
out if we have them. But we are out of stock. We trust that the Lord will
provide at His timing. The
biggest challenge we have as a ministry are the bibles. Bibles are expensive to
majority of the brethren. And since that most of us depend on farming, you find
it’s hard for village believers to buy them as the income from farming is too
small.
We
normally get preaching and Bible teaching opportunities in near-by churches.
And sometimes in High schools. As you see in the caption bellow, Alex was
preaching at St. Jannani Luwumu this last Sunday, a Kampala city suburb church.
He preached in three services, he came back too tired but thankful for God’s
work and His hand that touched congregations. Many believers were so happy to
hear about the Lord’s ministry here and what we do in Lungala.
The photo below was the first service
for students.
This
one below was the second service:
This
last one mainly were parents
In
one of our discipleship class, (Christianity Explored) class, Helen who has
been a Roman Catholic, has given her life to Jesus finally. Praise the Lord! In
our discipleship programs, we recruit both born again and none born again. And
as time goes on exploring the bible wisely but also straight to the Christ
Centered message, a lot of students have come to Jesus. Helen is in high
school. She is the one in white T-shirt on my left side, in the photo. She has
been carrying a huge cross of ‘Jesus’ in her neck. Pray for her spiritual
growth.
Our prime reason while were starting this
high school ministry, was to reach out to the lost souls. And we thank God that
many have come to Jesus and more are still to submit to His Lordship.
In
this month we had a pastor’s conference that took place in the Capital City of
Uganda. It was led by brethren from Zambia. It was such a blessing time to be
with them, with such a good expositions on Bible. We were blessed to be part of
it. Simon took the photo and Alex is right in the middle.
Our
prayer requests:
12th
August 2017 Inaugural service and people to fulfill their pledges.
Provision
as a ministry and other activities
The
growth of this church plant spiritually
Bible
funding.
Alex
and Simon (Uganda- Africa)
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