BIBLES ARE NEEDED
BIBLES ARE NEEDED
If you are able to help - please contact us as there is always a great need for more bibles for the people of Lungala and Mpigi, which we are able to sell at a reasonable price.
Ministry Update - May 2017
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)
Ministry Update - April 2017
Greetings
from Lungala Bible Ministries. We hope our Saviour Jesus Christ kept you well.
As it has always been, we want to share with you our devotion verse for the
month.
“Until I come, give attention to the public
reading of scripture, to exhortation and teaching… Take pains with these
things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all”( 1 Timothy 4:13-16)
In
our Thursday prayer meeting as a church, we were contemplating on that text and
we learnt a lot in the way we are to commit ourselves to His Word. Again we want to thank you so much for your
donations for buying a tent, we have now established Community
Bible Church – Lungala - may God alone bless you
and remember your work with this ministry and we have not ceased to pray for
you. We focus on teaching/preaching the Bible to this community faithfully. Here is a picture of our first time to pray
from it. The other photo is Simon preaching.
As
we have said above, God’s Word is our
centrality. A few days ago we heard of a
pastor from Kampala had been burning Bibles. This pastor preaches to thousands
of people with no theological studies. He has no deeper understanding of
doctrinal issues and how to explain the bible. He burnt them claiming that they
lack certain verses eg. Good News version. He says that KJV has the Word ‘Holy Ghost’ and claims ‘Holy
Ghost’ means an evil spirit. Meaning that if believers carry this version, evil
spirits will claim their lives too.
As a
ministry, we had taken an initiative to teach church leaders about this;
especially those that attend our monthly Pastoral meetings. So, when this sad
news broke, we met them to find out how they dealt with it, amazingly they were
very strong and had a firm foundation.
Right now, as a church, we do door-to- door evangelism every Monday.
We are also designing sign posts that direct people to the Community Bible
Church.
Discipleship Opportunities
We continue to focus on our discipleship
programs to make sure Christians grow in the Word. Left is a photo is an organization leader (
Methuselah Sebagala) in central region of Uganda receiving an ESV bible study
from Simon. As u remember, we give ESV bibles to pastors as a way of making
trust worthy bibles study with good research materials to help them in
preaching. 
Last week Alex (photo on Right) was invited to preach at a school’s night prayer meeting for students. It was a joy seeing students listening to the word without sleeping. As Proverbs puts it “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it”.
We think by training these youths in schools and having the gospel preached, there is hope for a god fearing generation tomorrow.
Christianity
Explored Class (SOUL) students (right) on the last day of class for the term.
In this class as Christianity Explored materials require, we focus on the
gospel of Mark. Most students can now
explain the totality of Mark's gospel and the purpose of life. Rachel gave
testimonies, she has been born again for a long time but she has never read the
bible keenly as she does now. ‘To us, this is wonderful’.
We have discovered that there are so many
believers but with no bibles, not even any christian material at all. To us, we
think this is very dangerous to the spiritual depth of the church. Please stand with us to make sure bibles are
available to people.
Our home is always visited by people from
far and near villages looking for God’s Word. Most Christians take Luganda bibles being
that most people speak Luganda. Recently three ladies from Roman Catholic background
said they have never owned a bible - these ladies now read God's Word. As our work, we follow them up and explain to
them the purpose of salvation. They haven’t given their lives to Jesus but it’s
great to see them studying their bibles. There is a great need for bibles since
they are too expensive for low income earners to buy.
The children’s ministry is going well - one of the kids (Solomon)
comes very early Sunday mornings to prepare the church. He organizes the seats-
is very thrilling to teach children to serve God when they are young.
Farming God’s Way
The Lord has given us rain, unlike the other season when many crops died due to a lot of sunshine. We planted New Zealand sweet corns (very sweet), NZ cucumbers & NZ beans. It has been a test of new crops, our community people always wondered about NZ beans and sweet corns. We like the sweet corns, they are yummy. We like farming because its what supports us to do ministry. We have been able to add 3 pigs to our numbers.
Prayer
Ø Continue to pray for Community Church – Lungala
Ø Pray for Alex as he plans to start a new life with Carolyn
Ø Pray for the our ministry opening in August 2017.
Ø We still face challenges with our 5 year old computers.
Ø Pray for signposts that are
needed that can direct new believers to church.
Thanks
Simon and Alex (Uganda, Africa)
Community Church - Lungala
Great News – Our Church Tent Has Arrived
As a ministry, we write to you with such a great joy; God has heard all of our prayers for the community church tent - it has been such a tedious work. You remember we have always asked you to pray for the provision of a tent outside our house: our congregation has steadily grown. God heard our prayers, the tent is now here!! What a joy and a great amazing God we serve! Indeed if God calls any one for His work, He will orchestrate all the events &circumstances to provide for His work to go forward.
One day David was going through many difficulties against King Soul David said, “I will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me” (Psalm 57:2). For us as believers, it’s God who accomplishes all things for us. Below is a photo of the tent; the first photo is the ground where the tent would sit, the second is the tent set up. Some of our church members have been of great help as they have volunteered in leveling the ground, cooking & fetching water and also helping the technical team while they were setting it up.
Our Lord and Savior has continually given us grace, it’s this ministry in the whole of this district that provides bibles for low income earners. We get people either born again or not wanting the Bible. We have persuasively encouraged Roman Catholics to get bibles after discussing with them the joy of having God's Word in their houses. When these people take them, we follow them up as way of evangelizing to them & to make sure that they reading them and also to pray with them. We have had many people from Roman Catholic background who have eventually received Jesus from here.
Since we now have this blessing of a larger tent that can seat 100 people, we will be having massive evangelism around our community. If you feel God calling you to help in this please come !!!! - you are more than welcome. J
Ministry Update - March 2017
We greet you our
friends and ministry partners in Christ Jesus! With all surety, we know that
the Lord has been gracious to you and your families.
Great News – Our Church Tent Has Arrived
As a ministry, we write to you with such a great joy;
God has heard all of our prayers for the community church tent - it has been
such a tedious work. You remember we
have always asked you to pray for the provision of a tent outside our house:
our congregation has steadily grown. God heard our prayers, the tent is now
here!! What a joy and a great amazing
God we serve! Indeed if God calls any
one for His work, He will orchestrate all the events &circumstances to provide
for His work to go forward.
One day David
was going through many difficulties against King Soul David said, “I
will cry to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me”
(Psalm 57:2). For us as believers, it’s God who accomplishes all things for us.
Below is a photo of the tent; the first photo is the ground where the tent
would sit, the second is the tent set up. Some of our church members have been
of great help as they have volunteered in leveling the ground, cooking &
fetching water and also helping the technical team while they were setting it
up.
Our
Lord and Savior has continually given us grace, it’s this ministry in the whole
of this district that provides bibles for low income earners. We get people
either born again or not wanting the Bible. We have persuasively encouraged
Roman Catholics to get bibles after discussing with them the joy of having
God's Word in their houses. When these people take them, we follow them up as
way of evangelizing to them & to make sure that they reading them and also
to pray with them. We have had many
people from Roman Catholic background who have eventually received Jesus from
here.
Since we now
have this blessing of a larger tent that can seat 100 people, we will be having
massive evangelism around our community. If you feel God calling you to help in
this please come !!!! - you are more than welcome. J
2017 Fundamental of the Faith Classes Started
Recently
we started the Fundamentals of Faith class
at Kisugu S.S. and there was a good turn out. We also had Robert & his
wife join us – they were visiting Uganda for the first time. This youth group
is basically led by Simon. Below is a photo of students as they were ready with
their pens, bibles and books to study the bible.
We can say there
is much improvement in understanding of ‘principles of reading the bible and growing in it' from the testimonies these
students give.
Alex & Carolyn
As some of you
already know - God has blessed Alex with a young woman -
Carolyn Kembabazi Carolyn - they are engaged and God Willing, they will get married this year.
Keep them in your prayers.
Christianity Explored Classes
We
also had Christianity Explored Classes,
at St. John's S.S. Judith an ‘A' level
students says “I like this program because it has shaped me desire for God from
a right perspective. I have a right understanding of bible which has led me to
be prayerful “.Left is a photo when students are studying
This has given us desire and zeal to continue youth
Christian Programs of this kind.
Farming God’s Way
Again thanks for the prayers for rain. God gave us
good rains and our gardens that had died now have regrown and our passion
fruits are fine. We practice mixed farming in case there is a lot of sunshine.
This
year we started also started rearing pigs below is a photo of some of them
Thank
you so much for your donation to the community church tent, and all your
support for bibles. We always pray for you!
In the Lamb
Alex and Simon (Uganda, Africa).
FEBRUARY 2017 NEWSLETTER
Please receive greetings from Lungala Bible Ministries Uganda!!!
Paul in Romans 10:13 wrote to the Romans saying “For
"everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” And he goes on to
say “But how are they to call on him in
whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they
have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?” This has and continues to be our driving force
to reach out to the lost. “For if we don't
know his goal and our lives are not in alignment with it, then we will find
ourselves at cross purposes with God and excluded from his kingdom in the age
to come.” (John Piper). Therefore
even as you read this news letter the purpose and goal of this ministry is to
see Christ taking His place in the hearts of His people in our community.
The month of February
ushered in the re-opening of schools in the whole country and we have recruited
new students for the High school discipleship programs that includes Foundation of faith at Kisugu Secondary
school, SOUL (Christianity explored) at
St John’s secondary school.
Community church plant:
Please continue to pray
for the Bible distribution funding. By the end of this month over 350 people in
Mpigi have received new copies of Bibles. Above is the picture of the bible; one
of the believers had before receiving a new one.
We continue to minister
to children through Christian songs and Bible stories. It is evident that most
of the children can sing from the beginning to the end, they can recite some
catechism questions and answer.
Nationwide drought even in our community
Proscovia is one of our
Fellowship members - before she
confessed Christ, she was a Roman catholic and her husband is a witch doctor.
As time went on the husband abandoned her and the children and some of the
children stopped going to school, as if that was not enough her story comes to
the point where she could not avoid going to church after she discovered that
one of her girls had gotten mad. It is after these hard situations that she
found her way to one of the churches and when believers prayed for her daughter
she became well. As she was looking for a near by community church to join, she
decided to be part of our fellowships. Recently we had to sacrifice some of our
little funds from our crop produce to take her daughter to the hospital to be
treated from malaria . Now the little girl is recovering gradually while on
medication.
Please continue to pray
for our community tent, we thought it would be up by now - Our fellowship groups
keep growing and we need a larger space outside our sitting room.
Thanks
Alex and Simon
(Uganda-Africa)
January 2017 Newsletter
January
2017 News letter
Greetings
to you in Jesus' name! We are glad to share with you good news from Lungala
Bible Ministries. We are committed to loving and bring full transforming gospel
to our community
(preach
the word; be ready in season and out of season; re-prove, rebuke, and exhort,
with complete patience and teaching. 2 Timothy 4:2 ESV)
While we were entering the new year , Simon & I, we had many invitations from churches around to go and preach there. I was
called to preach on radio during lunch hour (21st/12/2016). It was a
great moment as I did the work of an evangelist. And Simon to was invited to
preach in the city suburbs of Kampala. So, we had quiet a bit of preaching engagements
thereafter. In these preaching engagements, 5 people came to Jesus including
one M lady.
Ministry
of the bibles:
We thank God so much when each day continue
to uphold and make us grow more in Him. There is a tremendous work that He has
done in whoever this ministry touches. People come from kilometers and
kilometers to here: either they have questions that need to be addressed
biblically or they want bibles. Below is a photo of Pr. Justus, a father of 7
kids. He has been in this community for a long time. He is such an enthusiastic
man and he is willing to help once our community church tent is ready.
He bought bibles for his
family. He was so grateful to the Lord. As a local church in a community
growing everyday, we continue to address our of living biblically and also pray
for people who have demonic attacks ( We Know some of you have never incurred these
situations).
People
continue to appreciate the ministry of bibles far beyond our capacity. This
letter your yet to see was written to us by a young youth who leads a community
church sometimes on behalf of his father, see how it reads;
Below
is a group brethren from a nearby village; who invited me to preach at their
church.
The
believers were in great need on bibles. The few I took with me were like a drop
in the Ocean. I preached and one lady came to Jesus. She was also able to get
herself a bible. Below is a caption of people who got a Luganda bible;
Believers from Senene village. On left behind a lady
in light blue is Alex. They were so happy and the leader of this church has
often met us from our house and discussing the ideas for church
revitalization.
The
photo below is Kevin who was attached by demons, he could not understand anything
for two days. We prayed for him in those two days, fighting us, 5 men would
hold him as demons never wanted us to pray for him. At some situations he over
powered us and ran away and we got him back. As we plant this community church,
know these are some of the things we will have to be dealing with. In the
photo, he had come to his senses and since then, he is now fine. We want to have him in
discipleship/ the discipline of reading the bible.
That
was our fellowship group praying for him and his mother at extreme left. And
Simon next to the man in green T-shirt. Our church is growing, as you have been
following our reports, we believe God for a tent for our fellowships. As I
write, I have just been talking to a mother whose daughter was attacked /
bewitched. She was mad for three month. The church stood with her in prayers
for all this period and now she is fine. She says many people have come to her
with lots of doubts, thinking she must have went to witches. So, the church has
to address these and direct people to God.
There
is a great move of pastors around here working together, we have seen this in
the monthly meeting we have; this will enable the gospel to travail quickly to
the lost.
Farming
God’s way:
Our
passion fruit garden in not really well, it has been too hot. We are now using
watering can to irrigate: we need rain.
Some passion fruits are
dying. We lost our lettuce garden, the heat has been too much. We lie under
tropical region where its normally cool, we have not experienced this sunshine
for along time.
The
sweet potatos dried up because of too much sunshine. People are now shifting
from crop farming to animal keeping due to this dry spell.
We
wish to thank you all for your prayers and support to see this work of God
moving, may God bless you. And that God will give us rain.
Yours
Alex
and Simon
(Uganda-Africa).
CHURCH FUNDRAISER
2017 Ministry Opportunities
The numbers attending our Worship & Fellowship
groups are increasing and we are
currently fundraising for a tent so we can hold all our Ministry Worship,
Fellowship & Prayer Services & the Christianity Explored &
Fundamental of the Faith programmes from the tent on our property.
Sample Tent - Holds 100 people
NZ$4,000 is required - we have raised NZ$1,830 so far :-)
November 2016 Update
November 2016
“Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philemon. 3).
With great joy
yet again as LUNGALA Bible Ministries Uganda, we use this privilege to celebrate
with you of the Lord's goodness in this ministry.
Fundamental of Faith Classes
We have
counseled and moved along with our students (some have personally came to us)
asking questions on how to deal with satanic situations especially for families
where syncretism still holds strong.
Below are some of the students testimonies;
“As the class of ‘Fundamentals of Faith’; we
extend our sincere thanks to the ministry of Lungala Bible Ministries under the
leadership of brother Tumwesigye Alex for inserting in us the knowledge and the
Spirit God.
We humbly appreciate the time
& work rendered to us and through you we have achieved the following- first
and foremost; -Knowing more
about God (Jeremiah 9:24)
-Knowing how to read the bible
-Learning how to handle different situations
-We have been assured that all scripture is inspired by
God (2 Timothy 3:16)
-We have learnt how to use the bible
-How to draw closer to God (Isaiah 55:6)
-How to interpret scriptures in the bible (2 Peter 3:16)
We appreciate through you that
the Lord has changed us from our enemies to be His friends (Titus 3:3,8) and
then we pray that God who has used you may also use us to transform others”.
These students at flamboyant students at Kisugu S.S as they were graduating
These students at flamboyant students at Kisugu S.S as they were graduating
give to pastors and Simon is 3rd from the right. Students were on parade - Simon took us through a time of preaching encouraging students to be Bible readers and doers of the Word as a means to change their lives and communities where they come from. We gave them each a copy of the Bible so that they can keep the flame burning. As we have always shared with you, very few people here own bibles. We have been in fellowships where only the pastor had the Bible and the rest were listeners without bibles. Another fellowship we went to the preacher was teaching with a note book without the Bible. What a dangerous state we are in! So, we decided to make it easier for students to have bibles. If you feel donating a box of bibles, may God bless you!
The students that have graduated this month have been
plugged into the Romans Project where each student will read the Book of Romans
20 times, hand copy it and write ten lessons after the reading.
Uganda is one of the countries where youth/young people
make up 77% of the population . That means in most churches, and some of the
students in our programs, in one way or another hold key leadership in their
local churches. So, we are training
people who are already made leaders in ministry and sharpening them for the
gospel.
The 18th century preachers The Wesley brothers’ said this “Give me 100 men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing
but God, and I care not whether they be a clergy or laymen, such a lone will
shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of heaven upon the earth”.
Only people who fear God will change the World. If we
continue to impact the gospel in these multiple numbers of youths in these programs
here, our communities will change for Christ.
DONATE A BIBLE FOR CHRISTMAS
English Bible = Nz$12.61
Each
Luganda Bible = Nz$15.40 Each
As the Lord led us to plant a community church all our Sunday
services have steadily increased in number. In the picture below that is a
glimpse of last Sunday service that we had last week.
We have been going though the books 1Timothy- Titus, which
we just finished last Sunday. In our prayer meetings we have seen drug addicts
and drunkards surrendering to Christ, and they are walking a biblical
observable life changing.
Pastoral meetings
still go on monthly. A number of them have been able to get bibles at a small
cost from us – which has been a great privilege. We have had so far 204 bibles
circulated in our community. This a
humongous project and we want to thank God for each of you who have been behind
this support, may God bless you immeasurably! We do not only make it easier for people to
acquire bibles but we also take initiative to teach it to them.
This photo on the right is of the little ones we teach
Farming God’s Way
Our passion fruit farming has improved due to the rains
that we have now. We have had a longer drought than usual. We lost a number of
crops in the process. Most of our greens died as well. But the passion fruits
look good and we hope the first harvest will be good
We thank you all of you who have taken time to write emails
of encouragement to us, supported us in one way or the other. We wish to invite you to partner with us,
either on a short time mission, prayerfully or financially - we will be
privileged to work together with you.
2017 Ministry Opportunities
The numbers attending our Worship & Fellowship
groups are increasing and we are
currently fundraising for a tent so we can hold all our Ministry Worship,
Fellowship & Prayer Services & the Christianity Explored &
Fundamental of the Faith programmes from the tent on our property.
|
SAMPLE TENT – 100 Seater
|
we need nz$4,000 - we have raised nz$1,830
We continue to ask you to pray for;
1)
This church planting
2)
Children ministry
3)
Pray for our congregation to grow in the Lord
and His Word
4)
2017
Ministry Plans
Yours In the Lamb
Simon and Alex
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