Hello friends J
Once again we want to thank God for the month of May which is nearly to an end for
the great things He has done. May His awesome name be praised!
At Community Bible Church-Lungala, this
month the Lord has been teaching us ‘The working of
the Holy Spirit in missions'.
Acts 11:21-26). We spent a four days
fasting and praying.
(And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord…
Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to
encourage them all with resolute heart o remain true to the Lord…).
We learnt that
spiritual multiplication can only happen if we are dependent on His grace and
hence teaching and preaching sound sermons which will draw lost people to Him. This is what we are currently focusing on.
As one of the aims of us here, is to reach out to this community, evangelize to them and pray for them. Recently
we reached out to Hajjat ( a lady who has been to Mecca). We shared with
her the gospel and also delivered a Christian book that can help her read the
bible on a daily basis. This happened after she sent someone to inquire about
the availability of bibles. Now she has a Bible and she has special interests
to know about Jesus. We pray that this will turn out to be a good harvest to
our King Jesus.
Community Bible Church steadily
grows, as you see in the photos. Simon was preaching. The taller lady (Ms.
Nakaye, second photo below), we met her in one of our school discipleship
programs. She is a very enthusiastic Christian. She has willfully committed
herself to train youths fellowship on Sunday. So now we have a Sunday choir. She
works as a matron in one of the near -by schools.
We thank God for the twins Solomon and Samuel comes very
early in the morning to put church chairs in order. These boys have been in our of
classes for kids, Simon is teaching them to serve God. They enjoy the worship session and seemingly don’t understand much once preaching session
Starts. They have been of great help.
the sign posts, the
Lord has so far provided
two. We still need more two. That was Simon
with a
tape measure to ensure that measurements
were right. We will paint the and
laminate them too.
In August we have a Grand inaugural opening for this
ministry in general. The date has been verified as 12th/8/2017 and
confirmed. We will be so glad to have
you on that day, please mark your calendars. By July feel free to email us if
you want the program for information for all the activities that will take
place on that day.
This ministry in its small capacity has touched the lives of many people both near and far. The ministry of bible distribution has been bountiful to the hearts of many.
In this month Alex was invited to speak to the a crowd,
explaining about the missing verses in ESV (which we give out). This happened
as one of the city pastor burnt KJV and Good News bibles from his church. His
action left many hearts hopeless and void. Having spoken and defensively used
the Bible to defend itself, most people were encouraged. He had gone with a few
bibles, these were all taken, people had such a love for bibles again. The
Bible continues to be the most needing thing here.
As we have also discovered, as more people continue to need
the bibles, we have put more emphasis to teach them how-to read it. We
discovered that most people may read it but forget what they read or how to
interpret it in some ways. So, this will help to avoid wrong interpretation and
wrong application. On right is a photos Simon and Bazaale as he was receiving an
ESV Bible study from Simon. He leads an organization ministry in the Midwestern
region of Uganda.
On a weekly basis we do meet children especially on
Sunday’s. We find thus valuable. Our meetings involve children from Roman Catholics,
Muslim homes and born again. We think there are covenant children in these none
believing homes. We had take a break without meeting.
The high school ministry resumes next week; Simon, he started already this week. We will be glad to catch up with them again. We hope to finish our discipleship syllabus this coming term.
Our gardening has continually done well due to the good
rains that we have. A few people were able to plant because of the drought we
had. It was such a prolonged drought that Ugandans we have not had for the last
many years. So now that we have the
rain, we praise he Lord. Last month on our garden you saw pigs and crops, this
time you will see NZ tomatoes and
passion fruits. These passion fruits are Ugandan original. However we have
discovered that most of people did not like the size of the tomatoes, they are
too small. So, we may have to eat them by ourselves and don’t sell any. The
ones of the other season were liked by many because they were very big in size
and juicy. 
As we shared with you the previous text from Acts, we saw
that its God's Spirit that draws wholeheartedly workers to Him and saving
sinners for His glory. Our daily prayer request, pray that as this ministry
grows, people of God's heart will willfully join this ministry and that
people’s lives will be touched. Our passion is to love this community and all
those that God allows us meet and deliver transforming gospel to them. We call
you to join us to this chapter of ministry.
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Pray for August inaugural Grand opening,
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ministry computer and more two sign
posts.
Simon and Alex
(Uganda, Africa)