MISSION: Uganda Blog Update 06-24-2024

Greetings!

I have great news. We completed two major projects at the refugee camp. First, Kabazana Independent Baptist Church has a new building, water tank, baptistry, latrine and a nice new front gate. We are looking forward to scheduling our dedication service very soon. That will bring local leaders and lots of people from the community in to see it. I intend to swing for the fences, preach the Gospel with clarity and power to all of them. Pray for that upcoming meeting. Thank you to everybody that gave generously to fund this much needed work.

We also received money with which to put in a water tank at Ngarama Independent Baptist Church. We got enough that we not only were able to put in a new 10,000 liter water tank, we did some building maintenance, repainted all our buildings, and put in a new gate out front, along with a culvert to keep the water from washing out our drive. That is a great blessing. Thank you to those who gave to help with this.

Now all the churches have baptistries and water tanks. Pray for rain. The dry season came early, and it is the dust bowl around here. It is going to cause a lot of hunger because of crop failures. We need rain soon.

That just leaves our Sangano Independent Bapist Church and school. Sangano is our largest and oldest church. It has the most buildings because of the school. It also has the oldest buildings. These buildings have become quite run down. I would like to completely rebuild and expand our sanctuary, rebuild the baptistry and the latrine, do building maintenance and paint the school buildings, and spruce up the front gate. We also need to rebuild Pastor Zizi’s house. His first house fell down. Him, his wife, and his seven children moved into what was meant to be the library building. It was too small for a library. It is very much too small for 9 people. We can do all the other rebuilds and expansions for $35,000. Pastor Zizi’s house will cost $10,000. Please pray about assisting us with these very important projects.

We are continuing our work, training, teaching, and preaching the word to adults and children. The Devil has been fighting it hard. As you know, I had to close a church due to their insistence on being “Baptist” when I was around, but Pentecostal all the time. Now, the ex-deacon of the former church, a man named Byuma, with some influence from another ex-deacon from way back, a reprobate criminal named Timothy, are trying to steal the church property so they can build a Pentecostal structure there. Pentecostalism is a big source of income here. You don’t ever have to have any personal faith in Jesus Christ, or any training at all. Just speak in tongues, identify as a Pastor, and you can commence robbing the poor and the desperate.

I am attempting to stop this travesty. If allowed to continue, it will embolden the wicked, punish the righteous, and cause great harm to the ministry in that area. Our faithful church members are ready to fight this, but Byuma is threatening to murder anybody who tries to stop him. We are taking the matter to the camp commandant and attempting to resolve this legally and peaceably. Pray that truth and righteousness will prevail.

God bless and keep you!