Lungala Bible Ministries : June 2018

End of June News

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are glad to share with you what God is doing here this month. We hope you’re doing well by the grace of God.

“How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent?...” (Romans 10:14-15).

In our evangelism this month, we have been joined by Mrs. Scovia who has been part of this church. Although we had hardly been with her in the field of evangelism, in these recent months she has been with the team. She is one of the members who have been living in this community for more than 50 years and had been involved in the worship of Satan for many years with her family members. She has had some scary scenarios where she was practicing witchcraft, and spending all her money in satanic worshiping.

She normally shares her experience with people we meet while we are sharing the gospel. We are always left amazed at the grace that God shows sinners who have been estranged from Him. She is now a strong member of the church and she loves being part of the church activities. Recently she brought 20 pavers for the church.

Due to the fact that we are surrounded by big number of people who believe in witchcraft, many people who hear her testimony have given their lives to Jesus (some people fear giving their lives to Jesus, thinking demons will kill them.) If you read our last month's report, you saw pictures of local herbs we burnt at Hariet’s home. She gave up those herbs after hearing the gospel and Mrs. Scovia’s testimonies. This takes us back to the text of the month, how can they hear unless a messenger is sent to them? Friends, the Lord Jesus is working in the hearts of people in the way even us preachers can’t understand or describe.

Church paving

As a church we are still working on the paving, and on the left are the pavers we bought yesterday. Fred, who is in charge for the logistics of the church did the buying from Kampala. He is such an industrious man. We are hoping these will be enough to finish the remaining part. We will then need cement to finish the work.

Christianity Explored conference
Preparations are going on well with our pastors in partnership with the CHRISTIANITY EXPLORED MINISTRIES conference. We had a meeting with a few of them to plan a way forward for the conference and to give them letters to invite others. We are expecting fifty pastors at the three day conference. We will be providing accommodation and food for them for three days. The conference will be in Kamengo.
Simon and I, with the volunteers from the church, are working hard towards it. We continue to ask you to consider praying for us that we will have one or two conferences each year as a ministry.

Challenges in reaching out to villages

On the right is a picture of our motorbike in the village where we are doing God’s work. I had to drive at night after the meeting, but the motorbike could not start. I ended up leaving late and reaching home at mid-night. Those are the kind of villages where we go to share the gospel.

Christianity Explored discipleship

Schools in Uganda re-opened this month, and our youth ministry has started. We enjoyed the break time we had. Christianity Explored Ministries discipleship programs are going on well.

The pictures below are St. Johns youths in the Christianity Explored discipleship program.

We were joined by Jackline (below, in the middle with long pink leggings), who comes from Tanzania and is doing her studies at St. Johns high school. She comes from a Seventh Day Adventist belief (S.D.A). When she heard about this discipleship program from a fellow student, she came to me and asked if she could join. And she is now part of us. You know that our joy is to see such people joining with us to hear the true doctrine which transforms their souls for Jesus.

This month we have opened Christianity Explored Ministries in Luganda here in our village. We had seven attendees. We had people come from Roman Catholic Church and others were from Lungala Community Bible Church. We hope to have a group of ten people. We ask you to keep this ministry in prayer. This year we will have a graduation of youths from Christianity Explored Ministries.

We thank God for providing transport, as it was becoming harder for us to move to different schools and villages to run this ministry.

Thank you for being a prayer partner for this ministry. Please pray for the following:

1. Finish the paving for the church

2. Ministry land
3. Pastor's conference
4. God's leading in this ministry

God bless you so much.

Yours in Christ
Alex and Simon here in Uganda-Africa.

Here comes the month of June!!!

I will extol you, my God and my King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable.

Notice the Psalmist begins with praising the Lord; supposedly for the great mighty things that God has done in the history if Israel. The Lord has been working for His children until today :for all who have faith in

Him. Psalm 145:1-5

As a ministry, we have (since it started) seeing God work things that no man could have worked. We will bless and praise His name forever and ever.

This month, Alex was given an invitation to Isingiro (South Western Uganda, Close to Tanzania) in a Youth conference. This is one of the mountainous regions in Uganda. It took four hours in a bus to Mbarara town. After that, Alex had to get on a tax (Corona car) to drop him at Kaberebere trading centre. He sat with six people in the behind seat and four in front seat 😊 In order to have more room for seats, for men were supposed to hold or become seats for that moment.

From there, he got on a motor Bike/Boda boda, which was sent by the church leader who was hosting him; who drove for one hour as they went up hills. “There places where we had to give a motor Bike a push in order to go up! We fell off two times because the rider was putting gear one to stiff places. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt. It was a tiresome trip on so rough mountainous roads. Most people there are farmers, they rear mostly cows and plant green bananas (a lot of yellows bananas).

The rider was such a brave man, there are stiff places you can hardly get on. I reached when it was becoming dark, evening hours, when we were on top of very hills and mountains. Most people in this region live up hills, not in low lands as we see in Kampala. And the altitude there is high. The church members welcomed me and obviously a cup of tea was brought.

We had to get up early morning, the sessions were done interchangeable, all day.

I was to teach on the topic of “How to read the Bible”. A good number of them came, from different churches in the region. Most churches had sent their youth leader representatives. After my talk, the church held a leaders’ meeting where they had to ask me questions such as “How can we determine a wrong bible and a valid one?” Some of you who have been following News in Uganda, you remember a well-known City pastor who burnt Good News Bibles, NIV etc. After explaining why some bibles don’t have certain verse, (not squared up), they wished we could have conferences on hermeneutics.

After one hour of the meeting, most of their questions were adressed and others tackled but not resolved because time was short.”

The youth leaders had a strong concern about this. Actually one speaker in the conference had already told one of the attendees that his bible was invalid (Good News Bible). Alex had to stand out and correct him immediately. Actually after the conference, Alex has been put on the speakers of August conference in this same region. That means they will hold a similar conference in August.

It was a blessing ministering to the Lord with these enthusiastic young strong youths. One main concern that I noticed which still disturbs our church in Uganda is lack of bible training as said above. When you’re here in Kampala/trained you think that all is well in God’s church in the country, not until you go there and meet leaders. There is great need to train church leaders.

One of the speakers was giving HIV awareness to the youths, unfortunately him and his wi

fe have HIV. They got it before they were saved. He shared his pain of taking tablets, there was silence in the church. It was a sad moment.

After the conference, 10 youths had come to Jesus.

The following day we had a service at church, in another location. It was a long service, people in villages start services (mostly) at 10:am and leave church around 3:00 pm to 4:00pm. It was great having such experience to. As we prayed (worshiping and praising songs) I hardly saw anyone read the bible; except citations which were done by the church leader.

As a ministry, we are thrilled to work with such leaders and train them for effective preaching/teaching of the gospel. Our prayer and zeal now is if we could have like some of our discipleship programs go to regions like this. People is such areas hardly get bibles, much as they would want to read them. The places to get them are not easily accessible to such communities. As you pray for us, pray also for provision as a ministry.

The schools have officially reopened, youths ministry will start soon. This will be our second last meeting with Christianity Explored Youths before we graduate these three classes, both at two high schools and University. We will gratefully appreciate your prayers. Ministries around our community takes much of our time and movements, its at this point that we want to let you know that God has heard your prayers to us concerning this. We now have a motor Bike which we can cruise around when we have travels around here. It will help us a lot. Actually the sharing of our Psalm 145:1-5 comes from this context. Running Christianity Explored Ministries in three high schools was becoming harder. But the Lord has heard our need.

In our church evangelism outreaches;In one of our evangelism outreaches in the community, we came across Mama Harriet who was bewitched. She was sent away from most of big hospitals to go home as they couldn’t identify what the problem was with her legs. She says, she could feel something moving in her legs and weakening them so that she could not walk.

The photo on right is a saucepan with a mixture water and local herbs, then feathers of different sorts. The witchdoctor told her that, that water could chess a way the demon disturbing her.

She was then taken to witchdoctors, who played very demonic games on her. Her life was becoming harder and that is when we meet her in her house as a church. She received the gospel and turned to Jesus. She also told us that she was given the staffs in the picture to prevent evil spirits of the dead from attacking her and that the staffs could withhold evil spirits that had held her both legs. She also had feathers from different birds. We had to destroy all this. She was filled with fear that something wrong would happen about her, we encouraged her and now she is a strong woman in the Lord, although her legs are still weak, she barely walks. The Lord has been with us as a ministry and we can’t tell all His marvelous works He has done and finish it all. There is no greater joy than this. Harriet was born from unchurched family. She is now pleased for having meet a church that loves her and her kids.

Friend, this staff might seem easier for you to read about and see on screen, but its depths has killed and led many to hell. Through this church, we have many couples we have rescued from witchcraft. Mama Harriet was one of the choir members in some religion, but when Satan attached her, she could not trust one true God. And absolutely, reason being that she was not discipled well from the Holy Book the Bible that our God could save her.

As we have been doing this church plant, we have come to know that most people talk about God whom they can hardly explain hence hard to trust Him when they go through life challenges. And this happens because what Africa needs now is to train preachers of the Word. We do think we have more evangelists that teachers/trained pastors in biblical theology.

Where our new church plant is, we are surrounded by seven visible shrines (where charming and worship of satanic work is done). It’s only God who will fight for this new church plant and use it to reach out to these lost families. Please keep these following items in prayer;

Ø We still ask you to consider praying for Pastors conference

Ø Ministry Land

Ø The work of Paving church to quicken up

Ø Discipleship programs to make an impact in the youths

Alex and Simon (Uganda-Africa).

May 2018 News

As a ministry, we have (since it started) seen God work things that no man could have worked. We will bless and praise His name forever and ever.

This month, Alex was given an invitation to Isingiro (South Western Uganda, Close to Tanzania) in a Youth conference. This is one of the mountainous regions in Uganda. It took four hours in a bus to Mbarara town. After that, Alex had to get on a tax (Corona car) to drop him at Kaberebere trading centre. He sat with six people in the behind seat and four in front seat 😊In order to have more room for seats, for men were supposed to hold or become seats for that moment.

We had to get up early morning, the sessions were done interchangeable, all day.

I was to teach on the topic of “How to read the Bible”. A good number of them came, from different churches in the region. Most churches had sent their youth leader representatives. After my talk, the church held a leaders’ meeting where they had to ask me questions such as “How can we determine a wrong bible and a valid one?” Some of you who have been following News in Uganda, you remember a well-known City pastor who burnt Good News Bibles, NIV etc. After explaining why some bibles don’t have certain verse, (not squared up), they wished we could have conferences on hermeneutics.

After one hour of the meeting, most of their questions were salved and others tackled but not resolved because time was short.”

One of the speakers was giving HIV awareness to the youths, unfortunately him and his wife have HIV. They got it before they were saved. He shared his pain of taking tablets, there was silence in the church. It was a sad moment.

After the conference, 10 youths had come to Jesus.

In our church evangelism outreaches;In one of our evangelism outreaches in the community, we came across Mama Harriet who was bewitched. She was sent away from most of big hospitals to go home as they couldn’t identify what the problem was with her legs. She says, she could feel something moving in her legs and weakening them so that she could not walk.

The photo on right is a saucepan with a mixture water and local herbs, then feathers of different sorts. The witchdoctor told her that, that water could chess a way the demon disturbing her.

She was then taken to witchdoctors, who played very demonic games on her. Her life was becoming harder and that is when we meet her in her house as a church. She received the gospel and turned to Jesus. She also told us that she was given the staffs in the picture to prevent evil spirits of the dead from attacking her and that the staffs could withhold evil spirits that had held her both legs. She also had feathers from different birds. We had to destroy all this. She was filled with fear that something wrong would happen about her, we encouraged her and now she is a strong woman in the Lord, although her legs are still weak, she barely walks. The Lord has been with us as a ministry and we can’t tell all His marvelous works He has done and finish it all. There is no greater joy than this. Harriet was born from non-church family. She is now pleased for having meet a church that loves her and her kids.

➢ We still ask you to consider praying for Pastors conference

➢ Ministry Land

➢ The work of Paving church to quicken up

➢ Discipleship programs to make an impact in the youths

Alex and Simon (Uganda-Africa).