Greetings to you the friend of Lungala Bible
Ministries Uganda. Happy New year 2018. We hope you are picking on well by God's grace with
the new year J
As you know usually we want to share with
you a snippet from our reading or a
verse from the BIBLE.
This time around it is from ‘Charles Colson,
Loving God. Pp. 82’.
“They also reveal why Christians do
not know how to love God. For we should read God's Word for not what we can get
out of it, not what it will do for us, but for what it will teach us to do for
God… “Your Word is truthful,” Jesus said. Nothing less than knowledge of that
truth is demanded of Christ's disciples. That knowledge only comes from fervent
study of truth, that is, study of His Word. This is indispensable to genuine discipleship.
It is indispensable to loving God. But perhaps the real reason we do not pursue
that radical discipleship rooted in the Word of God is that we have not
recognized the clear choice before us.”
As a ministry, we find these words true of
us. We want to make sure by the grace of God that our community gets to love God
genuinely through His Word through faithful teaching of His Word and commitment to discipleship trainings. We are
emphasizing discipleship and follow up
programs. On Mondays most high schools will be opening in Uganda. This means
that our discipleship programs will resume by next week. We will have new
recruits. When schools begin, its our most busiest moments as these discipleships are weekly and require a lot of time to prepare lessons/Sessions.
This means we will be photo copying and
checking the responses this students show in their writing. To make sure they
do well as required. We love it. We are sure youths can’t wait to join these
programs!
We will be having a new Christianity Explored class at St. Johns Secondary School as we did
last year Here the headmaster gave us a worm welcome. This is going to be our
second year when Christianity Explored is ran in this school. We will also have
the same program in Kisugu S.S. We have seen the Lord touching these youths'
hearts and converting them for the Gospel. Most schools have welcomed us but
our financial efforts are still too limited, although we would love to do more.
Towards the end of this report, I will be
reflecting about all the people whom this ministry has reached out and in
return they gave their lives to Jesus. As Charles Colson said above, “…study of His Word. This
is indispensable to genuine discipleship.” Our
enthusiasm to disciple has brought much yields to the kingdom of God. The
figures you will see soon are people who have visibly confessed Jesus; we leave
effectual call to God. Some of these people are part of this community church
and other are serving God in other districts.
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| some of the materials delivered for paving the church. |
The photo on right shows how our Church floor looks like. When it rains the water passes across the middle of the church. Then also dirt drops keeps making the tent unclean.
Once it is paved, all that will be sorted. We
applaud church members who have been faithful to their pledges to this work
Sunday services
Bellow is a photo of Christopher who was
brought by his brother Mugura to us. Christopher comes from a home where they
worshipped evil Spirits (spirits of the dead) since he was born. In his own
words Christopher says he was in a shrine ( hats where evils Spirits are called
from) in December. He says he left the shrine at around 3:00am reaching home
late. He had spent a lot of money in this staff and becoming poorer each day.
He
was tired of this work, and when he had the gospel, he came to Jesus. After hearing this, I lead him through a confession and then
a bible devotion. He received Jesus! Most of you who don’t know, these and
others get involved in Satanic worship because they are looking for reaches or
this practice is inherited from grands. To get these people out, its God's
grace. Actually one person told me, “don’t you know that a person can be in
these shrines and call on evil spirits and then on Sunday he goes to church
with his bible, why don't you leave them?”. This is what a person said! You know well that this is
syncretism, and syncretism in this region is our greatest battle. This is not
an easy war friends!
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| Christopher, in the meddle after confessing Christ and leaving witch craft |
In Alex's preaching opportunities in the
interacastrine regions of Lake Victoria, he
was invited go officiated a new pastor.
The young man in the picture had finished his college and taking the pastoral
leadership of this village church. Alex was asked to speak on a topic ‘ The essence of owning the Bible'. Only three members had Bibles and Alex was the
fourth. The bible is highly needed here.
The man on left was being officiated to
pastor the
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| Macedonian call to the L.Victoria basins |
We have suggested to have a pastoral
conference in this village, this year. We will be emphasizing on how
to preach from the Bible. As we attended this event, we discovered that
most us here preach but not from the Bible. If God allows, we will be teaching
this, to the village pastors around lake Victoria.
one step at a time
Someone has compared Lungala Bible Ministries as slow moves/ steps of an elephant. Where it steps, it leaves a mark. In our slow steps, every place we go to, the Lord allows us leave a life transforming step/ a mark in the lives of people. If you want more Information about this conference, and how to donate towards its preparations contact us.
Someone has compared Lungala Bible Ministries as slow moves/ steps of an elephant. Where it steps, it leaves a mark. In our slow steps, every place we go to, the Lord allows us leave a life transforming step/ a mark in the lives of people. If you want more Information about this conference, and how to donate towards its preparations contact us.
As we said above, these are the figures of
people who received Jesus, last year 2017: both high school ministry and as a
community church.
v High school Ministry 29 students
v Under Community Church (either through evangelism or Sunday services) 45
people
We believe that above people is a visible
church ; that God has put us here to pastor and lead to spiritual maturity as
He still a veils His grace to us. Continue to pray for them.
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| new piglets |
As a ministry, we also love to do humanitarian
and charitable work to village communities.
Prayer
requests
Ø Paving the church
Ø Conference (Pastors' conference)
Ø Buying a ministry Land
Ø Donations to buying Bibles
In
the Lamb
Alex and Simon (Uganda, Africa).